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Data Journalism and Its Applications in Digital Age

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The study aims to identify data journalism, its types and importance, the role of the Corona pandemic in increasing the importance of data journalism, and the developments in data journalism in the Arab world. The greatest impact in changing many journalistic practices, and “data journalism” is one of these new phenomena that modern communication technology has mainly helped in developing and presenting in different, more interactive and attractive forms. Data journalism relies mainly on analyzing available data and numbers and embodying them in tables, curves, maps and other visual forms, to allow new facts and news that would not have been easy to obtain without those numbers. The study also revealed that data journalism is one of the tools that facilitated the interpretation and presentation of health topics. In addition to presenting news stories by processing large sets of data.

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    Abdulsadek Hassan

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Hassan, A., Angawi, M. (2024). Data Journalism and Its Applications in Digital Age. In: Hamdan, A., Aldhaen, E.S. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Transforming Digital Marketing. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 487. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35828-9_16

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