TY - GEN
T1 - Teaching Data Storytelling in a Computational Thinking Course for Students in Communications Careers
AU - Crawford-Visbal, Joseph Livingston
AU - Tirado, Livingston Crawford
AU - Saltachin, Luisa Alondra Gomez
AU - Meza, Dina Soledad Cornejo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Data storytelling is an emerging, multidisciplinary field that employs data to change pre-conceived notions of audiences using pieces of information and data visualization. Traditionally considered a technical skill for engineering, it has proven beneficial for disciplines in Humanities and Social Sciences. This work-in-progress is based on the experiences gathered from two classrooms of a new course titled “Computational Thinking for Communications”, taught in a Peruvian university. The 16-week course involved one theoretical and two practical hours weekly. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the 50 enrolled students who were creating data storytelling projects using open data sources. The students’ experiences, motivations, and challenges were explored, such as a perceived disconnection between theory and practice. Future evaluations aim to refine the curriculum, addressing these challenges to enhance the integration of data storytelling in Communication education.
AB - Data storytelling is an emerging, multidisciplinary field that employs data to change pre-conceived notions of audiences using pieces of information and data visualization. Traditionally considered a technical skill for engineering, it has proven beneficial for disciplines in Humanities and Social Sciences. This work-in-progress is based on the experiences gathered from two classrooms of a new course titled “Computational Thinking for Communications”, taught in a Peruvian university. The 16-week course involved one theoretical and two practical hours weekly. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the 50 enrolled students who were creating data storytelling projects using open data sources. The students’ experiences, motivations, and challenges were explored, such as a perceived disconnection between theory and practice. Future evaluations aim to refine the curriculum, addressing these challenges to enhance the integration of data storytelling in Communication education.
KW - Communication
KW - Data Storytelling
KW - Education
KW - Systematization of Experiences
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85213969679&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-78450-7_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-78450-7_11
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85213969679
SN - 9783031784491
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 175
EP - 185
BT - Interactive Storytelling - 17th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2024, Proceedings
A2 - Murray, John T.
A2 - Reyes, María Cecilia
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 17th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2024
Y2 - 2 December 2024 through 6 December 2024
ER -
