Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849221133298
Title: An Asian version of data journalism?: Uncovering "Asian values" in data stories produced across Asia
Authors: Wu, Shangyuan 
Keywords: Data journalism
Asian values
Asia
democracy
authoritarianism
watchdog
objectivity
journalistic roles
Issue Date: 12-Oct-2022
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Citation: Wu, Shangyuan (2022-10-12). An Asian version of data journalism?: Uncovering "Asian values" in data stories produced across Asia. JOURNALISM. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849221133298
Abstract: Data journalism in Western-centric research has been lauded for its investigative qualities, capable of bringing to light previously concealed information and enabling the press to play its watchdog function. That said, journalism outside the liberal West may operate within vastly different contexts, shaped by different historical experiences, political cultures, and philosophical traditions, thereby creating a different brand of data journalism. This paper examines data journalism practice in Asia specifically, a region known to be home to collaborative press systems that adhere to a set of “Asian values” pertaining to collectivism, social harmony, norm conformity and deference to authority. By examining 210 data stories produced by news outlets in six Asian countries, this study finds that Asian values are displayed in a vast majority of data stories produced in the region, most of which are news stories pertaining to the home country of these news outlets. Continued reliance on government sources for information and a lack of stories that reveal previously hidden information or scrutinize a powerful entity also suggest no strong push to leverage on the investigative qualities of data journalism to produce more “watchdog” journalism; focus is instead placed on the “civic” role of informing the public.
Source Title: JOURNALISM
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/237420
ISSN: 1464-8849
1741-3001
DOI: 10.1177/14648849221133298
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