Information Visualization in the Era of Innovative Journalism

Information Visualization in the Era of Innovative Journalism brings together over 30 authors from countries around the world to synthesize how recent technological innovations have impacted the development, practice and consumption of contemporary journalism.

As technology rapidly progresses, shifts, and innovates, there have been immense changes in the way we communicate. This book collects research from around the world that takes an in-depth look at the primary transformations related to journalistic innovation in recent times. High-profile contributors provide cutting-edge scholarship on innovation in journalism as it relates to emergent topics such as virtual reality, podcasting, multimedia infographics, social media, mobile storytelling and others. The book pays special attention to the development of information visualization and the ability of recent innovations to meet audience needs and desires.

Students and scholars studying contemporary journalism history and practice will find this a vital and up-to-date resource, as well as those studying communication technology as it relates to marketing, PR or mass media broadly.

Carlos Toural-Bran is Professor at the Department of Communication Science (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), researcher at Novos Medios Research Group and President of the Galician Association of Researchers in Communication (AGACOM).

Ángel Vizoso is a researcher at Novos Medios Research Group (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), beneficiary of the Training University Lecturers’ Program (FPU) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Government of Spain), and visiting scholar at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).

Sara Pérez-Seijo is a researcher at Novos Medios Research Group (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), beneficiary of the Training University Lecturers’ Program (FPU) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Government of Spain), and visiting scholar at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).

Marta Rodríguez-Castro is a researcher at Novos Medios Research Group (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) thanks to a grant awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

María-Cruz Negreira-Rey is a PhD student in Communication and Contemporary Information from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and researcher in training at Novos Medios group (USC).