Eva Goldgruber

Fachhochschule Joanneum · Institute Journalism and Public Relations

In conceptions of deliberative democracy, journalism is considered to play a crucial role in facilitating political participation. As social media platforms have become a preferred space for young people to inform and express themselves politically, journalistic actors are forced to use these spaces to reach young audiences and encourage participat...

Embedded in societal trends of datafication, data journalism is an emerging journalistic sector that has attracted attention in media studies. While previous research has often focused on workflows, practices and routines in data journalism, this paper investigates how data journalists position themselves in the field. Based on material from ten in...

Several journalistic abilities are required to derive narratives from data, including the skill to discover and construct compelling stories (data storytelling), employ data-driven techniques to research and analyze information (data literacy), utilize visualization methods effectively (visualization literacy), and approach data with a combination...

Recipients of data stories need a certain visualization literacy level to understand and interpret more elaborate data visualizations correctly. For general audiences, however, visualization literacy levels are known to be relatively low. Therefore, journalists face the challenge that they are either restricted to using very simplistic representati...

Die zunehmende Nutzung von Daten im Journalismus steht einerseits im Zusammenhang mit der Datafizierung der Gesellschaft und andererseits mit der digitalen Transformation des Journalismus generell. Dieser Trend hat sich durch die COVID-19-Pandemie noch verstärkt und zum vermehrten Einsatz von Datenstorys geführt. Dennoch ist eine einheitliche Defin...

This work-in-progress-paper presents the multi-layered research design of the Austrian team in the U-YouPa project. First, we give a brief overview of Social Media use in Austria. After a short description of our research design at a glance, we focus on our methodological considerations for four case studies. Our research approach can be used to ex...

This paper explores the existing research literature on data journalism. Over the past years this emerging journalistic practice has attracted significant attention from researchers in different fields and produced an increasing number of publications across a variety of channels. To better understand its current state, we surveyed the published ac...

Journalists need visual interfaces that cater to the exploratory nature of their investigative activities. In this paper, we report on a four‐year design study with data journalists. The main result is netflower, a visual exploration tool that supports journalists in investigating quantitative flows in dynamic network data for story‐finding. The vi...

This book is about how different communicators - whether crisis managers, first responders, journalists, or private citizens and disaster victims - have used social media to communicate about risks and crises. It is also about how these very different actors can play a crucial role in mitigating or preventing crises. How can they use social media t...

The 2013 Central European floods were not only one of the most severe natural disasters in Austria in the last decades, but also constituted a landmark in crisis communication. For the first time, social media and online newspapers were important news channels, creating a need for new crisis communication strategies. Based on 20 semi-structured int...

Using and understanding social media in the context of networked publics enhances crisis communication. This chapter describes models and ideas for integrating social media into the communication strategies of rescue organisations. The authors develop their recommendations for the use of social media by these organisations from both a summary and c...

The use of social media to communicate in cases of emergencies has gained more and more importance in recent years. Studying such web and social media data is not only a methodological challenge, but ethical questions also arise. In this article we describe some of those ethical issues and our reflections with a focus on dissemination of results ba...

Our research is concerned with the influence of social media on communication strategies of organisations, journalists and the public in the context of crisis communication. Crisis communication theory emphasizes the increasingly important role of social media not only during a disaster, but especially in the pre-crisis phase. Thus, this paper deal...

Der vorliegende Beitrag behandelt die Kommunikationssoftware „Slack“ und deren Potenzial im E-Learning anhand zweier Anwendungsfälle in der Hochschullehre. Dazu wurden die für die Einführung Verantwortlichen in Interviews befragt, welche mittels qualitativer Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet wurden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass „Slack“ besonders in Szenari...

Das Poster behandelt die Verwendung der Kommunikationssoftware „Slack“ und deren Potenzial im E-Learning anhand zweier Anwendungsfälle in der Hochschullehre. Dazu wurden die für die Einführung Verantwortlichen in Interviews befragt, welche mittels qualitativer Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet wurden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass „Slack“ besonders in Szena...

There are many web-based tools like social networks, collaborative writing, or messaging tools that connect organizations in accordance with web 2.0 principles. Slack is such a web 2.0 instant messaging tool. As per developer, it integrates the entire communication, file-sharing, real-time messaging, digital archiving and search at one place. Usage...

There are many web-based tools like social networks, collaborative writing, or messaging tools that connect organizations in accordance with web 2.0 principles. Slack is such a web 2.0 instant messaging tool. As per developer, it integrates the entire communication, file-sharing, real-time messaging, digital archiving and search at one place. Usage...

This article describes the Styrian Diversity Visualisation Project (SVV)1 focusing on three main parts: the development of the prototype SVV web app which enables users to explore their own situation in relation to others within the wider community, a corresponding data blog demonstrating the journalistic potential of data visualisation, and, final...

Statistical open data is usually provided only in the form of spreadsheets or CSV files. The developers of open data apps must either restrict themselves to managable bite-sized chunks of data, which can be consumed (read, parsed, and held in memory) in one go, or must install and maintain their own data server which the app can query on demand. Th...

Die Hochschuldidaktische Weiterbildung an der FH JOANNEUM (HDW) basiert auf einem „Blended Learning“-Konzept. (Unter „Blended Learning“ versteht man die Kombination aus Präsenzunterricht und Online-Lernphasen.) Fachexpertinnen und Fachexperten gestalten die wenigen Präsenztermine, E-Moderatorinnen begleiten die Gruppen in ihrem Online-Lernprozess....

Game based-learning exploits the potential of ICT and games engage learners. The objectives of the European project "Play the Learning Game" are to spread and update the results of the "Learning Game Portal1" to vocational education teachers and trainers. The 10 transnational partners develop and execute trainings, intend to disseminate the project...