Does Azerbaijani social media use data analysis as news?

Year 2021, , 161 - 167, 27.05.2021

Vafa Zahid Isgandarova

https://doi.org/10.26809/joa.6.2.06

Abstract

The article is about new area of media – data driven journalism which spread in all over the world widely. Here is researched the Azerbaijani internet media outlets activity, some challenges and progress, made survey related to audience`s interest about that. Social media, a branch of the Internet, is less used in data journalism because it is more operative and concise. Because it takes time to collect the data, visualize it and turn it into a story. Irrespective of that, Azerbaijani social media outlets such as Modern.az, Qafqaz.info, Re-port.az, BBC Azerbaycanca, Sputnik.az, Telegraph.com and etc. make a great effort to use data driven journalism trend. The majority of them are made by an editorial department to create info graphics, pie chart, and other visualizations tools

Keywords

Data, Social Media, Visualization, İnternet, Analysis, News, Information, Production, Process

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