Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) recently published a research article titled "" in Visual Communication Quarterly examining how media covers surveillance and the implications for public understanding. The research analyzes coverage before and after Edward Snowden's leaks, and builds on his "Media, Privacy, and Surveillance" Honors College course, finding that just as surveillance has shifted from visual evidence to dataveillance, journalism is shifting its notion of visual evidence from photojournalism to journalistic data representations. Such techniques are particularly appropriate for difficult-to-document topics such as surveillance, but other topics with similar characteristics can also benefit, as indicated by recent coverage of police shootings.
