smart drones for journalism
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Lars Nyre, Astrid Gynnild, Frode Guribye.
Dept. of Information Science and Media Studies.
University of Bergen, Norway.
Camera drones in education
Teaching students to make responsible
journalism with new technology
Unpacking the drone
Photo: Lars Nyre.
Vismedia is a research group at the University of
Bergen. We focus on responsible uses of visual
technologies in news media.
Vismedia – the mother project
Vismedia is is funded by the
Norwegian Research
Council from 2015 – 2019.
Drone flying at Vismedia conference
Photo: På Høyden.
Students at Vismedia conference
Photo: Zulfikar Fahmy.
Innovation pedagogics is about
teaching students to be creative
and daring in their approaches.
Freedom to explore within limits.
In our case students have the
responsibility for designing a
prototype for drone journalism.
Innovation pedagogics
Students are offered practical training in drone flying and
drone programming, and are split into three groups who
design technical prototypes.
Vismedia researchers guide the innovation process by
evaluating and discussing with the students in a series
of four workshops.
The course explores two aspects of responsibility;
avoiding danger and making journalism.
Course plan
Drones can be dangerous for the pilot as well as
bystanders. Difficult questions of liability could emerge,
putting the University as well as students at risk.
Strategy 1: Drone teachers follow all rules strictly, and
students can only fly if all the paperwork is in order.
Strategy 2: Drone teachers allow students to practice
privately, in order for them to improve flying skills.
Students are given more responsibility.
Avoiding danger
Indoor flying practice
Photo: Giedrius Statulevičius.
Outdoor flying practice
Photo: Lars Nyre.
Journalism is bound by ethical requirements and
expectations about accountability, relevance and
interest, and in this sense it is always responsible.
• - Journalism drone filming is not a surveillance
activity, but transparent, with an operation manual
and stated purpose.
• - Journalism has special privileges regarding access
to information, and should act accordingly when the
story requires it.
Making journalism
The drone is preprogrammed to conduct a series of
standard shorts that are needed for a news report.
The prototype can apply face recognition technology
to frame the shot during an interview, and the drone
can be set to operate inside a geo-fence.
Prototype 1: Toolkit for reporters
News reportage can be made with 360 degree drone
filming, both indoors and outdoors. This ”street-view”
perspective would be novel in relation to television news.
It would have a high level of immersiveness and
interactivity for the user.
Prototype 2: Immersive news
Drone film that includes real sound from the flight, using
microphones synchronized with GPS and time code.
Drone video footage can become more documentary if
sound is routinely included, and this would be a benefit for
journalism.
Prototype 3: Microphone drone
- The objective is for the students to anticipate and
systematically reflect on the implications of their
innovations.
- Possible learning outcomes:
- - Students make independent decisions about drone
flying and the risks involved.
- - Students think realistically about the potential of a
new technology and the effort involved in shaping it.
- - Students create genuinely novel and valuable
technologies for journalism.
Why RRI in media education?
Lars Nyre, Astrid Gynnild, Frode Guribye.
Dept. of Information Science and Media Studies.
University of Bergen, Norway.
Camera drones in education
Teaching students to make responsible
journalism with new technology
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