future newsrooms and civic journalism - bahareh heravi
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FUTURE NEWSROOMS AND CIVIC JOURNALISM
Dr. Bahareh R. Heravi HuJo: Digital Humanities and Journalism ���Moore Institute Digital Scholarship Seminar���4 Oct 2013������
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DERI Digital Humani<es & Journalism
§ Aims at developing new tools and technologies that support and foster Digital Humani<es and journalism.
§ A mul<disciplinary effort aiming to bundle research and development ac<vi<es around digital humani<es, media and journalism with social media and seman<c web technologies.
Journalism
Tradi<onal Journalism
Journalism(?) Today § The audience -‐ ci<zen
journalists -‐ are now a readily available source of news.
§ The UGC comes from variety of Social Web sources, e.g. TwiUer, Facebook, Google+, Flickr, YouTube, blogs, etc.
§ Vast amount of the UGC could be produced in the event of a breaking news.
270,000
684,478
72 hours
3,125
3,600
347
27,778
A lot of UGC generated per minute!
Egyptian anti-government protesters taking photos with their camera phones at the demonstration in downtown Cairo - AP
UGC & Breaking News § UGC is even more important
when news organisa<ons have to rely mostly on Social Web as they cannot have journalists on site.
Speed is a killer when there is a breaking news!
§ The UGC producers would have to spend a considerable amount of <me searching, aggrega<ng, contextualising and verifying the material received on the Social Web.
Sources to be processed
Trust Filter
Trustworthy News
State Media
IRIB NEWS
User Generated Media Archives Newswire
Traditional Media
Archives
Challenges
§ Too much DATA!
§ Naviga<on of data: plaforms are not connected and communi<es are ogen disparate.
§ Context and relevant informa<on
§ Trust and verifica<on
Social Seman7c Journalism
Social Seman<c Journalism
Heravi, B. R., Boran, M., & Breslin, J., Towards Social Semantic Journalism, 2012
Social Seman<c Journalism Framework
Heravi, B. R., McGinnis, J., A Framework for Social Semantic Journalism, 2013
Conclusion
§ Social Seman<c Journalism aims at developing a dynamic and flexible alterna<ve/addi<on to newswire subscrip<ons.
§ It enables journalists to produce richer, more relevant and trustworthy stories, and to do it faster.
