1st Edition
Data and Narrative in News Media The Science of Communicating Evidence
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
PART ONE. FIRST THINGS FIRST
Chapter 1. A Matter of Fact
Chapter 2. Concepts Explained
PART TWO. NARRATIVE VERSUS DATA
Chapter 3. Narrative Superiority
Chapter 4. Power of Numbers
PART THREE. DATA AND NARRATIVE
Chapter 5. Relative and Collective Effects
Chapter 6. Contingencies
PART FOUR. MEDIA APPLICATIONS
Chapter 7. Data Visualization and Storytelling
Chapter 8. Communicating Evidence: From Theory to Practice
Index
Biography
Hai L. Tran is an associate professor in the College of Communication at DePaul University in Chicago, USA. His research explores media effects and communication technology, focusing on evidence-based communication, multimodality, agenda setting, and news ecosystem. He has published in journals, including Media Psychology, Journalism Studies, and Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, among others.
“Data and Narrative in News Media is a disciplined and conceptually careful contribution that clarifies how evidence functions in journalistic communication... As questions of evidence increasingly intersect with automation, platform governance, and epistemic inequality, the framework Tran offers provides a valuable foundation for future theoretical and empirical work.”
