FUTURE  NEWSROOMS  AND  CIVIC  JOURNALISM  

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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.  

 

Thank  you    

Bahareh  R.  Heravi  Bahareh.Heravi@deri.org  

 

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