L'infographie, info ou intox ?
C'est l'un des adages les plus connus : une image vaut mille mots. Ce qui explique la vogue des infographies, représentations graphiques et esthétiques de données chiffrées. Que ce soit pour dresser un portrait des bacheliers français ou prendre la mesure de la consommation planétaire instantanée de produits technologiques, l'infographie semble être devenue la représentation la plus accessible de données originales. Mais en mars 2012, le site Internet Techni, dans son éditorial, posait la question suivante : les infographies sont-elles en train de gâcher le Web? Simplifier pour mieux transmettre Comme le souligne Techni, les infographies ont cette qualité exceptionnelle de résumer en quelques images et termes associés, des sujets très complexes. Par exemple, on sait que la France vit actuellement un moment important : une élection présidentielle. L'infographie est moins aride qu'un texte, plus consultée et mieux comprise par les internautes. Et l'exactitude dans tout ça? Source :
Comment convertir un journaliste bourru à Twitter - Steve Buttry
September 17, 2011 by Steve Buttry Brian Moritz asks a question you face in almost every newsroom addressing the challenges of digital journalism: How do you “convert” the curmudgeons? In a comment on my recent blog post providing social media resources for journalists, Brian, a Syracuse graduate student, asked: There are some reporters (mainly older vets, but a surprising number of young ones, too) who just do not like Twitter. I have two responses: one optimistic and helpful and one dismissive. First, the helpful, optimistic response: I believe we all learn and grow at different rates and in different ways. If a good journalist is still resisting Twitter use, I would try to identify the reason. Sometimes the resistance is based in fear that an old-school journo can’t learn this new skill. Sometimes the resistance might be based in being overworked and feeling you don’t have time to learn Twitter or make good use of it. Some people have valid ethical questions or concerns. Like this:
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8 règles simples pour un journalisme plus fiable - CJR
It’s a cliché to say clichés exist for a reason. As journalists, we’re supposed to avoid them like the, um, plague. But it’s useful to have a catchy phrase that can stick in someone’s mind, particularly if you’re trying to spread knowledge or change behaviour. This week I began cataloguing some of my own sayings about accuracy — you can consider them aspiring clichés — and other phrases I find helpful or instructive in preparation for a workshop I’m giving with The Huffington Post’s Mandy Jenkins at next week’s Online News Association conference. Our session is called B.S. Detection for Online Journalists. So, with apologies to Bill Maher, I offer some new, some old, and some wonderfully clichéd rules for doing accurate journalism. The initial, mistaken information will be retweeted more than any subsequent correction — I’ve started calling this the Law of Incorrect Tweets. Verification before dissemination — Our job is to apply the discipline of verification to everything we gather.
How to use FF Chartwell
Primarily suitable for Adobe Creative Suite, FF Chartwell for print uses OpenType ligatures to transform strings of numbers automatically into charts. The data remains in a text box, allowing for easy updates and styling. It’s really simple to use; you just type a series of numbers like: ‘10+13+37+40’, turn on Stylistic Alternates or Stylistic Set 1 and a graph is automatically created. To help get you started using FF Chartwell we’ve created this video tutorial and here are some simple steps: ONE — Firstly always make sure the letter spacing is set to “0” (zero) TWO — Using the values 0-100, type the values, then use “+” to combine them into one chart. THREE — Want to bring a bit of color to your work? FOUR — Turn on Stylistic Alternates or Stylistic Set 1 and enjoy! To see the original data all you need to do is turn off Stylistic Set or Stylistic Alternates.
Comment Tumblr change le journalisme - RWW
Earlier this week we looked at the remarkable growth of Tumblr, a blogging and curation service that now gets over 12 billion page views per month. Tumblr is mostly used as a consumer curation tool - it's an easy way for people to re-post articles, images and videos. But Tumblr can also be used to power a news website. That's exactly what ShortFormBlog does. Launched in January 2009 by Ernie Smith from Washington D.C., the site publishes about 30 news soundbites a day. ShortFormBlog is still a part-time project for Smith, who also works as a graphic designer at The Washington Post. The concept behind ShortFormBlog is very simple: to publish really short posts throughout the day. The site publishes over 200 posts per week, an average of about 30 per day (higher on weekdays). The audience reaction and feedback - mostly via Tumblr, but also other social media such as Twitter - is a key part of the site. The Tumblr community is especially important. How Tumblr is Being Used
Emergent Futures Mapping with Futurescaper
Futurescaper is an online tool for making sense of the drivers, trends and forces that will shape the future. As a user interface system, it still needs development. As a tool for analyzing and understanding complex systems, it works very well and does something I have yet to see anything else be able to do. Several people asked me about this after my last post, so here is some more detail. Following the logic of collective intelligence (as part of my my PhD), I broke up the the scenario thinking process into discrete chunks, came up with a system for analyzing and relating them together, and then distilled them into key outputs for helping the scenario development process. Emergent Thematic Maps One of the coolest things about Futurescaper is how it translates simple input into complex analysis, and then back again into simple insights. To demonstrate this, I tested the system using data from an International Futures Forum project on international climate change impacts for UK Foresight.
L’infographie sert aussi à persuader contre la désinformation - NiemanLab
At this point, we pretty much take for granted the power of graphics to help journalists explain — stories, concepts, context. What we pay less attention to is graphics’ power to persuade. But that could (and, maybe, should) be changing. A new paper (pdf) on motivated reasoning and political misperception — the latest from political science professors Brendan Nyhan, of Dartmouth, and Jason Reifler, of Georgia State — suggests that graphics can also provide a powerful, and perhaps essential, way of counteracting misinformation. In the political world, in particular — but presumably in the broader sphere, as well. The paper (full title: “Opening the Political Mind? Though the first finding is, wow, fascinating — “you’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and, doggone it, global warming is scientific fact” — it’s the second that holds the most obvious and immediate implications for journalism. Image by Keith Ramsey used under a Creative Commons license.