"This book is a valuable collection of tips and techniques, covering both data as a source of journalism and as a tool with which the story is told. It starts with a general introduction on the main characteristics of data journalism, gives an insight into its practical relevance in the newsroom, an...d presents inspiring case studies on elections, riots, school performance, corruption and other issues. It then introduces methods of data sourcing from open data portals, through freedom of information laws, and by crowdsourcing, followed by practical advice on how to extract and interpret information from raw data. The final section on "delivering data" shows how data visualisation helps to tell stories and provides tips on building news apps and feeding open data platforms." (CAMECO Update 2-2012)
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"Welcome to the world of melodrama—and to the melodramas of the world. This book introduces nearly one hundred cinematic masterpieces from various periods and different cultural contexts—ranging from early Hollywood to emergent and popular Bollywood, from Latin American and New German Cinema to ...contemporary Nollywood, from classic melodrama and commercial blockbusters to arthouse film and meta-melodrama, while also encompassing a number of other local forms and styles in their hybrid or revisionist varieties. Our collection features discussions of seemingly timeless stories of love and loss, demonstrating the possibility and power of melodramatic plots to portray the overcoming of differences and antagonisms. Yet it also reveals how the melodramatic code is time and again used for asserting political claims and articulating critique—and hence for (re)producing powerful dichotomies of good vs. evil, innocence vs. corruption, virtue vs. vice. Melodrama performs and rehearses moral conflict and emotional crisis management on a broad scale, involving intimate relationships and familial relations, on the one hand, and global constellations of oppression, violence, war, and regime changes, on the other. Thus, like no other genre, melodrama indeed makes the political personal and the personal political." (Introduction, p.13)
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