From Research to Investigation. Digital Traces and their Use in Data Journalism and OSINT
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The document discusses the intersection of digital traces with data journalism and open source intelligence (OSINT), highlighting methodologies used in sociological and investigative research. It illustrates the significance of digital data sources in news reporting, using the BBC's investigation of a 2018 killing as a case study. Key differences between sociological analysis and journalism reporting are noted, emphasizing the potential for methodological exchange between the two fields.
![DOING SOCIOLOGY OUTSIDE (ACADEMIC)
SOCIOLOGY
• The social science approach in professional context
➢Marketing
➢Business intelligence
➢Cybersecurity
➢Data journalism
➢OSINT community
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From Research to Investigation. Digital Traces and their Use in Data Journalism and OSINT
- 1. FROM RESEARCH TO INVESTIGATION Digital traces and their use in data journalism and OSINT DAVIDE BENNATO | UNIVERSITÀ DI CATANIA DAVIDE.BENNATO@UNICT.IT | @TECNOETICA
- 2. DOING SOCIOLOGY OUTSIDE (ACADEMIC) SOCIOLOGY • The social science approach in professional context ➢Marketing ➢Business intelligence ➢Cybersecurity ➢Data journalism ➢OSINT community ➢[…]
- 3. RESEARCH STRATEGY IN SOCIOLOGICAL AND INVESTIGATIVE RESEARCH SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH • Discourse: scientific • Guideline: theory • Approach: analysis • Data handling: homogeneus • Results: from particular to general (extending the result) INVESTIGATIVE RESEARCH • Discourse: consulting • Guideline: case study • Approach: profiling • Data handling: juxtapose • Results: from general to particular (detailing the results)
- 4. DATA JOURNALISM • The use of data for news reporting • Investigation data based • Data: public and open statistical source (es. crime statistics, public sector statistics)
- 5. OSINT (OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE) • The use information source for security and news reporting • Investigation computational based (not only numerical data) • Data: information open source or open access (es. digital tracks, Google Maps, photo repository)
- 7. THE BBC «ANATOMY OF A KILLING» INVESTIGATION • One of the most important OSINT journalism investigation in 2018 • The story: the identifying of place, date, and killer, extracting information from a video went viral where two women are killed by some soldiers because probably supporter of Boko Haram • The story was published as a video in Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G9S- eoLgX4 and a thread in Twitter: https://twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/104418 6344153583616
- 8. THE VIDEO
- 9. 1. WHERE? THE CLUE THE INVESTIGATION Answer: Zelevet, North Cameroon
- 10. 2. WHEN? THE CLUE THE INVESTIGATION Answer: after 2014, before 2016, the early 2015
- 11. 2. WHEN? https://twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/1044186386847404033 Answer: between March 20 and April 5th 2015
- 12. 3. WHO: THE KILLER? THE CLUE THE INVESTIGATION Answer: «Tchotcho» Cyriaque Bityala, Cameroon regular army
- 13. THE RESULTS BEFORE THE INVESTIGATION AFTER THE INVESTIGATION
- 14. CONCLUSIONS • There are interesting similarities in the use of digital tracks between research in sociology and investigation in journalism and intelligence • The main differences are in the extending the results: finding the general pattern in sociological research, define the details in the case studies of the journalism reportage • What is important would be the exchange of methologies and tools in this two different knowledge communities