The final of the 8th China Data Journalism Competition and Academic Forum on New Generation Artificial Intelligence Information Communication and Social Governance were held at Shenzhen University on December 2. Guo Yichen, a Grade 2023 master's student from the School of Journalism and Communication, NKU, together with other team members, won the third place for the data journalism work, In the Forest of Concrete, Where should We Live: Stories of the Pains of Young People Renting Apartments in First-tier Cities, and Zhou Yanni’s team was awarded the excellent prize for Citywalk: Time and Space Breakthrough for Urban Workers. Yu Mengli and Li Weijia, teachers of the School, were awarded the Excellent Tutoring Award in the competition this year.
The work of Guo Yichen's team, In the Forest of Concrete, Where should We Live: Stories of the Pains of Young People Renting Apartments in First-tier Cities looks into the issues related to search for apartments and housing occupancy among modern youngsters. The work leads readers to deeply reflect on the quality of living and life choices of urban youth through multidimensional data and multi-level analysis.
The work of Zhou Yanni's team, Citywalk: Time and Space Breakthrough for Urban Workers, takes the buzzword Citywalk as the starting point to explore the correlation between urban laborers and walking, and explores the deep meaning behind the hot phenomenon of Citywalk from the perspective of social motivation. Both works express concern of ordinary people for the life and destiny, reflect social reality issues, and demonstrate a strong humanistic concern.
This competition has attracted more than 1300 teams from universities and media around the world, with over 6000 applicants. Nearly 3 million votes were cast online for the semifinal, making a new record.
The China Data Journalism Competition was founded in 2015 and has been successfully held for eight sessions. The competition practices the new concept of the Ministry of Education for liberal arts construction, adheres to the path of news and communication education combining literature, science and art, and cultivates excellent content producers for the country’s integrated media construction. The competition provides a platform for data journalism content producers to exchange ideas and receive trainings, and plays an important role in the deep integration and development of traditional Chinese media, fostering of new-type journalists, and building of journalism and communication as a discipline. It also leads the whole society to focus on trending news and data journalism production, injecting fresh blood into new coverage about the Chinese society.
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Authors: Guo Yichen, Ye Qianlin, Dong Yuxin, Cao Yixuanzi, Li Zixuan
Tutoring teachers: Yu Mengli, Li Weijia
2. Citywalk: Time and Space Breakthrough for Urban Workers
Authors: Zhou Yanni, Ma Yuxuan, Ma Zehui, Wang Jiahui
Tutoring teachers: Wu Yike and Yu Mengli
