Stefan Baack

Weizenbaum Institute/Mozilla Foundation · Digitalisation and the Transnational Public Sphere (Weizenbaum)/Insights Team (Mozilla Foundation)

Civic Tech beschreibt Anwendungen, durch die Bürger*innen sich einfacher engagieren und informieren können. Neu an Civic Tech ist ihre potenzielle Nutzerreichweite und die Bandbreite an Anwendungsfällen durch die Nutzung von offenen Daten. Civic Tech als Leitbild der Verwaltungsdigitalisierung impliziert, dass die Verwaltung stärker bürgerzentriert...

Despite the complex interdependencies in today’s digital news ecology, it is still common to study digital journalism primarily by looking at how ‘non-journalists’ are influencing journalists from ‘outside’ the field of professional journalism. When it comes to how digital journalism is shaping non-journalists, we mostly find audience research or r...

This article examines the adoption of cross-border collaboration practices by introducing the concept of ‘intermediaries of change’: individual journalists who drive the adoption and gradual normalisation of pioneering cross-border practices. We ask how they implement cross-border practices, integrate them into existing working routines, and how th...

Civic Tech beschreibt Anwendungen, durch die Bürger∗innen sich einfacher engagieren und informieren können. Neu an Civic Tech ist die potenzielle Nutzerreichweite und die Bandbreite an Anwendungsfällen durch die Nutzung offener Daten. Civic Tech als Leitbild der Verwaltungsdigitalisierung impliziert, dass die Verwaltung stärker bürgerzentriert arbe...

From the Panama Papers to the Migrants' Files, we appear to witness a 'Golden Age of global muckraking'. While cross-border collaborations among journalists are not new, data technologies have dramatically increased their scale and degree of collaboration. Transnational collaborations among journalists are increasingly data-driven operations specia...

Research has paid relatively little attention to two aspects that are increasingly important in understanding data journalism as a maturing field: (a) journalism today is increasingly provided by a diverse set of actors both inside and outside of legacy media organizations, and (b) data journalism has become a global phenomenon that cannot be fully...

This article examines how civic technologists understand and use data to facilitate civic engagement. It illustrates the cultural and historical situatedness of data affordances and shows how civic technologists think of themselves as facilitators of civic engagement: they use and understand data in ways that are supposed to expand the agency of pu...

This article explores the entanglements between data journalists and civic technologists. Following an approach inspired by practice theory, it describes how they form a community that comes together through interlocking practices and complementary values and ambitions. Data journalists and civic technologists interlock along a continuum that oscil...

This article shows how activists in the open data movement re-articulate notions of democracy, participation, and journalism by applying practices and values from open source culture to the creation and use of data. Focusing on the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany and drawing from a combination of interviews and content analysis, it argues that th...

The coverage of Wikileaks' huge amounts of leaked data was a challenge for newspapers – they had to figure out how to get stories out of extensive and complex data sets and how to present their findings to readers. The result significantly differs from traditional news reporting; including illustrations, interactive web applications and reading ins...