Cramped, often unhygienic, and already characterised by numerous restrictions, many prisons in Europe were hit hard by the pandemic. In Italy, where prison facilities are among the most overcrowded in the EU, the pandemic aggravated a number of preexisting systemic problems.
The sources which were used for EDJNet's data-driven investigation on access to assisted reproduction techniques in Europe.
How is the role of big tech companies and automated decision-making systems affecting European democracies? Andreas Vou (VoxEurop), Nicolas Kayser-Bril (AlgorithmWatch) and Federico Caruso (OBC Transeuropa) share their views on the fourth (and last) episode of this podcast series.
In the second episode of EDJNet's Data Literacy podcast, Lorenzo Ferrari (OBC Transeuropa), Clara Guibourg (J++), and Alexander Damiano Ricci (VoxEurop) discuss what makes transnational data journalism special, from the variety of data sources to multilingualism. As well as the need for reasoned comparisons among countries, and the increasing relevance of local contexts.
When you open a website, the question immediately pops up: what data do you want to share with the service provider? In the EU, on average, 50% of internet users refuse to allow their personal data to be used for advertising.
Why is data journalism useful to approach European issues? In this conversation, Chiara Sighele (OBC Transeuropa), Gian Paolo Accardo (VoxEurop), and György Folk (EUrologus) discuss the state of the European public sphere, how to favour the circulation of news within the EU, the micro-macro linkage in European affairs, and how being part of a European network of media outlets helps facing some of the challenges of journalism nowadays.
EUrologus compared how cannabis consumption patterns vary according to whether smoking in a given EU country is punishable by prison. Our data analysis article.
Since the beginning of the year, five infringement procedures have been initiated against Italy. Only five countries have kept their numbers lower. The total number of infringements against Italy has dropped to 82. This makes Italy the seventh least problematic EU country in this regard.
María Álvarez, data journalist at Civio, coordinated EDJNet's coverage of two relevant issues in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: changes in mobility and nurse shortage in Europe. In this video, she presents the main challenges and the most interesting findings of the two works. Data on mobility were analysed to identify how containment measures affected people's lives; nursing personnel data was among the indices used to assess how prepared European healthcare systems were for the pandemic.
Nicolas Kayser-Bril, data journalist at Algorithm Watch, coordinated AW-EDJNet’s joint investigation on Instagram’s algorithm. In this video, he explains why the subject matters and how it could be approached, despite the lack of transparency of the algorithm. Data suggests that Instagram has a bias in favour of pictures of scantily clothed men or women – this has an impact both on creators’ business and on users’ views.
