Charting myths, debt, and monkey farms: How Kontinentalist is reimagining data journalism in Asia "In Southeast Asia, data can be quite scarce, and it’s often controlled by people in power."

Western data storytelling so often forgets: myth is data, too.

Love how Kontinentalist is breaking open what “data journalism” means—through folklore, debt, even monkey farms.
🔗 www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/char...
#AsiaIsNotAMonolith #DataAsCulture

In this essay, I also refer to the process of working with @blasttheory.bsky.social on #ConstantWashingMachine, curated by @hannahredlerhawes.bsky.social for @odihq.bsky.social's #dataasculture programme.

Endless War: On the database structure of armed conflict Republished in slightly edited form from VVVNT.

The Afghan War Diaries through the SigAct (Significant Acts) database: rhizome.org/editorial/2014/mar/17/en... #war #wikileaks #dataasculture