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         “Every tool is better than nothing”?: The use of
                 dashboards in journalistic work

                                                     Peter Tolmie
                                                   Universität Siegen
                                                   Siegen, Germany



                                                                Biography
                                                                Peter Tolmie is a Principal Research Scientist at the
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                                                                Universität Siegen in Germany. He has conducted
    In this paper, I shall be drawing upon a se-                ethnographic studies across numerous settings (e.g. re-
    ries of ethnographic studies of journalists and             tail banking, music production, the TV and film in-
    technology evaluations undertaken during the                dustries, journalism, etc...). Most recently, he has col-
    European project PHEME, to examine some                     laborated on the Pheme project, which is focused on
    of the assumptions that get made about how                  establishing the veracity of claims in the internet.
    dashboard-type systems might support jour-
    nalists and the problems that can arise. In
    particular I shall be discussing the ‘clustering
    problem’, its ramifications, and how it con-
    stitutes one of the main challenges for future
    technology development in this space. The
    clustering problem refers to the thorny issue
    of how to assemble appropriate materials for
    journalists to work with that are meaningful
    and intelligible at the point of use. Whilst
    this resonates strongly with a number of long-
    standing issues in computer science, I shall
    focus here upon how it illuminates a gap be-
    tween expectation and provision that is lead-
    ing to a magpie-like proclivity for journalists
    to download the latest tool, try it once, then
    set it aside.




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thors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes.
This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors.
In: D. Albakour, D. Corney, J. Gonzalo, M. Martinez,
B. Poblete, A. Vlachos (eds.): Proceedings of the NewsIR’18
Workshop at ECIR, Grenoble, France, 26-March-2018, pub-
lished at http://ceur-ws.org

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