Hyperlocal data journalism - Andy Dickinson

HYPERLOCAL DATA JOURNALISM ANDY DICKINSON

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE

THE MEDIA MILL PROJECT The Media Mill project aims to drive the development of open source, open data platforms in Leeds and York; enable collaboration between all partners to identify ways that local data can be transformed into media experiences (with an emphasis on mobile) that have value for citizens; and support research into the various business propositions that surround the project with a view to sustaining a thriving hyperlocal media ecology for the city-region.

OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA“Public Sector information that has been made available to the public as open data”

“Open data and content can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose”

http://opendefinition.org/

Open Data White Paper: Unleashing the potential

OPEN DATA VALUE CHAIN

- civic innovation- better engagement- better accountability- better transparency- social and economic innovation

£Governmentv

HYPERLOCAL DATA JOURNALISMa community driven, civically informed process of creating, developing and exploiting social and economic value at a local level through the use of open government data and the enabling processes of data journalism.

HYPERLOCAL DATA JOURNALISM- Technical- Urban bias- Access to data- Building & scaling best

practice- Measuring social &

democratic impact

URBSMEDIAThere are a lot of very simple, easy to understand numbers out there that no one has used as a source of information. Within them are not huge smoking guns about power and corruption but just some interesting facts about the way we are, who we are, where we live and how we live. It is almost low hanging fruit that a more traditional data journalist who is highly investigatory focused would just walk past and ignore as being not interesting enough. I think there is a consumer interest in doing that.

(Rogers.2015a)

ANDY DICKINSONasdickinson@uclan.ac.uk@digidickinson

http://www.mediamillproject.uk/ http://www.mysolomon.co.uk/https://github.com/hebeworks/Solomonhttps://datamillnorth.org/https://www.yorkopendata.org/

MediaMill ProjectMedia Innovation Studio2016

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PROVOCATIONS

OPEN?TRANSPARENCY ACCOUNTABILITY ENGAGEMENT PARTICIPATION

ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT OPEN DATA, OPEN GOVERNMENT OR FOI(A)?

ARE YOU MAKING YOUR DATA OPEN?

CAN YOU HELP YOUR COMMUNITY TO USE THEIR DATA?

HOW DO YOU KNOW DATA JOURNALISM REALLY WORKS?

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