[CALL] Computation+Journalism Symposium 2015

The Computation+Journalism Symposium is a celebration and synthesis of

new ways to find and tell news stories with, by, and about data and

algorithms. It is a venue to seed new collaborations between

journalists and computer and data scientists: a bazaar for the

exchange of ideas between industry/practice and academia/research.

We are pleased to invite both papers and panels that explore the

interface between data and computer science and journalism. We divide

submissions into one of four categories.

   Stories, visualizations, or other interactive experiences exemplary

   of outstanding journalism produced about or with data, code and

   algorithms.

   Platforms that support journalistic work and which enable new ways

   of finding, producing, curating, or disseminating stories and other

   news content.

   Research papers which explore a question of interest in journalism

   or information studies, or in data and computing science, as it

   relates back to journalism and news information.

   Pedagogical innovations, describing how technology can be used in

   the teaching of journalism, or journalism can be used in the

   training in data and computer science and other branches of

   engineering.

This year, we are also soliciting panel proposals in these

categories. A panel will consist of between 3 and 5 participants and a

moderator, and should be thought of as a discussion on a topic of

interest to the computation and journalism communities. Our goal with

this line of solicitation is to surface new topics and extend the

reach of the meeting to new communities.

We will judge sumissions in the separate categories – stories,

platforms, research and pedagogy – on their own merits, but all should

be reflective and seek to share knowledge that leads the field

forward. For instance, submissions about stories or visualizations

might explain the story as well as how it was enabled or constrained

by technology; platform submissions might detail what is unique about

the platform and how its design affords journalistic work; and

research submissions might articulate a research question and

contribution to state-of-the-art knowledge.

All submissions will be reviewed by experts in the field, and accepted

papers will be invited to present the work in demo and oral sessions

at the symposium. This year we anticipate relationships with two

journals, the American Journalism Review and Digital Journalism, to

help publish the proceedings of the symposium.

The work presented at last year’s symposium can be found at