Data Storytelling for Libraries
May 7th 2024, 09:00-10:30 (Auditoriet)
Talk: Information and Misinformation: Data Storytelling for Libraries
Description: Discover how library data can be used to tell compelling stories in the face of funding threats as well as fake news and misinformation. Dr. Kate McDowell's research explores the role of libraries in providing trustworthy information and how storytelling can understand what goes wrong in cases of misinformation.
Library staff will learn about the Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians, uncovering the motivations behind data storytelling and how to reach diverse audiences. Additionally, insights from narrative structures will be shared to help understand the dynamics of misinformation, drawing from Dr. McDowell's work with a World Health Organization-funded research team during the pandemic.
May 7th 2024, 11:00-14:00 (U-rom)
Workshop: Troubleshooting Library Data Storytelling and Community Misinformation
Description: Discover how library data can be used to tell compelling stories in the face of funding threats as well as fake news and misinformation. Dr. Kate McDowell's research explores the role of libraries in providing trustworthy information and how storytelling can understand what goes wrong in cases of misinformation.
Library staff will learn about the Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians, uncovering the motivations behind data storytelling and how to reach diverse audiences. Additionally, insights from narrative structures will be shared to help understand the dynamics of misinformation, drawing from Dr. McDowell's work with a World Health Organization-funded research team during the pandemic.
The talk will be live streamed from this link.
Dr. Kate McDowell focuses on storytelling as information research, social justice storytelling, and how the history of library storytelling can enhance contemporary data storytelling. Her writing appears in Library Quarterly, College and Research Libraries, and JASIST, where her article Storytelling wisdom: Story, information, and DIKW theorizes storytelling as a fundamental information form. She advises regional, national, and international nonprofits, including work with the World Health Organization on storytelling responses to online health misinformation.
McDowell leads the nationally-funded Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians, currently in development to equip public libraries with the narrative tools they need to thrive in the data-driven era. McDowell is an associate professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her teaching on both storytelling and data storytelling was internationally celebrated with the ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award in 2022. McDowell is an associate professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA and a visiting researcher at the University of Bergen’s Center for Digital Narrative.