The 2024 Computation + Journalism Symposium

 

October 25-27, 2024

Hosted by Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts

 

About the Symposium

The Computation + Journalism Symposium is a space for anyone working at, or curious about, the intersections of computation and journalism. This includes practicing journalists, independent data storytellers, computational social scientist, artists, digital humanities scholars, cartographers, and others. It has been hosted in prior years at Stanford, Northwestern, Georgia Tech, Columbia, ETH Zurich, and Univ. of Miami.

Talks and sessions might include:

  • “Behind the scenes” on novel digital storytelling in news settings
  • Case studies of new collaborations between journalists and computer scientists
  • Introductions to tools and techniques that support fresh approaches to reporting and storytelling

Dates

Conference: October 25-27

Submissions Due: June 1

Location:
Northeastern University (Boston), ISEC Building

Details:

Northeastern University will be hosting C+J, beginning the evening of Friday, October 25, and running through Sunday, October 27. 

While welcoming many perspectives, C+J is hosted by universities and embraces an academic approach to conferences, inviting proposals for short papers, contributed talks, and contributed sessions.

June 1 is the deadline for submissions — see our EasyChair conference link.

New kinds of data, new kinds of analyses, new kinds of narrative

Sessions at C+J 2024 might explore their use in journalism to help the public understand complex issues. We are not focusing on a specific theme this year, so this could include topics such as algorithm audits, novel election coverage, AI in the newsroom, open-source investigations, monitoring news for human rights violations, new digital storytelling tools and techniques, or other emerging or relevant topics.

The program will include a few keynote speakers in general sessions, some invited sessions, contributed talks, papers, and sessions, and social outings over the course of the two-day event.

Submitting a short paper

You are invited to submit a paper for review, up to five pages in length. Accepted papers will be grouped into topical sessions.

Submitting a contributed workshop

You are invited to propose a contributed workshop with an abstract of at most 250 words. These should be hands-on training relevant to journalists or researchers. Please briefly include:

  • Impact statement summarizing the main goals and expected outcomes of the workshop
  • Previous iterations of the proposed workshop at other conferences
  • Any space or technical requirements to run the workshop (screens, computers, etc.)

Submitting a contributed talk

You are invited to propose a contributed talk with an abstract of at most 250 words. These should be separate talks that will be organized into sessions by the Program Committee and likely run in parallel at the event.

Submitting a contributed session

You are invited to propose a broader contributed session made up of three to four individual speakers. Each speaker should provide an abstract of at most 250 words, and the session organizer should submit a similar abstract summarizing the topic the session will focus on.

SUBMIT ALL MATERIALS TO EASYCHAIR.

Questions? Please contact:

John Wihbey
j.wihbey@northeastern.edu