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Snurb — Thursday 27 October 2011 23:47

Robotic Journalism?

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Internet Technologies | Berlin Symposium 2011 |

Berlin.
In response to Chris W. Anderson’s talk at the Berlin Symposium, Lorenz Matzat now discusses the question of ‘robot journalism’ and its impact on newsroom jobs. There is a substantial increase in the amount of data being collected (and to some extent, made available) by all sorts of devices; these data would also be valuable for journalistic purposes, of course.

Sport is especially advanced in this area, in fact – in many football stadiums, for example, a number of additional cameras are now tracking player and ball movements, generating detailed datasets and visualising them in real time. Given …

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Snurb — Thursday 27 October 2011 23:47

Understanding Algorithmic Journalism

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Internet Technologies | Berlin Symposium 2011 |

Berlin.
The afternoon session at the Berlin Symposium, on intermediaries in public communication, begins with Chris W. Anderson’s presentation on data journalism (he’s not the ‘long tail’ guy, by the way). He begins by describing journalism as a media form that’s meant to bring the public together – to assemble the reading public. In a sense, Google, and data algorithms, similarly bring the public together – and intermediaries emerge in this process.

Algorithms are predetermined sets of instructions for solving a specific problem in a limited number of steps; one of the best known algorithms of recent years is …

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Snurb — Friday 14 October 2011 08:28

Twitter as a Tool for Pro-Am Journalistic Practices

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Twitter | AoIR 2011 |

Seattle.
Wow – we’ve already reached the final session on the final day of AoIR 2011; time has passed very quickly. I’m in a session on Twitter, and Gabriela Zago makes a start. Her focus is on the possibilities of Pro-Am news media work on Twitter, focussing especially on the newspapers The Guardian and El País.

New tools and Web services appear online all the time; these tools are appropriated in different ways by different social actors. One possibility is appropriation for news-related uses, pursuing Pro-Am collaboration opportunities. Such Pro-Am models combine professional journalists and amateur …

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Snurb — Sunday 9 October 2011 08:24

Gatekeeping, Gatewatching, Real-Time Feedback: New Challenges for Journalism (SBPJor 2011)

Produsers and Produsage | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Produsage in Business | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Blogs and Blogging | Social Media | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Twitter | SBPJor 2011 |

SBPJor 2011

Gatekeeping, Gatewatching, Real-Time Feedback: New Challenges for Journalism

Axel Bruns

  • 4 November 2011 – SBPJor conference, Rio de Janeiro
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Snurb — Friday 9 September 2011 23:55

The Phonehacking Scandal and the Future of Journalism

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Future of Journalism 2011 |

Cardiff.
The final session here at Future of Journalism is a roundtable on the News of the World scandal; as a panel session, it will be hard to blog, but I’ll try my best. Bob Franklin starts us off by highlighting the wide reach of the scandal, and notes that while journalism overall has been tarred with the abuses committed by News International, there also has been some excellent journalistic coverage of the scandal.

The first panellist is Labour Party MP Chris Bryant, shadow minister for political and constitutional reform. He says that it feels as if public debate in …

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Snurb — Friday 9 September 2011 21:46

Blogging Journalists, Journalistic Blogging

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Blogs and Blogging | Future of Journalism 2011 |

Cardiff.
The next speaker at Future of Journalism is Lex Boon, whose focus is on the changing context for journalism in this transitional phase. In particular, blogs have been driving this change, and as a result, of course, journalists themselves have also started their own blogs.

Lex examined media blogs (in the professional context of journalism, published on the Website of news organisations), and interviewed the journalist-bloggers behind them – from a broad range of news beats. Mostly those journalists essentially fell into blogging: their editors raised the need to start blogging, and they started their blogs as experiments, without …

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Snurb — Friday 9 September 2011 21:45

Social Media Users' News Consumption in Canada

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Twitter | Future of Journalism 2011 |

Cardiff.
The next speaker at Future of Journalism is Alfred Hermida, who is interested in how news consumption changes as a result of the greater use of social networking platforms. Such users may now start to constitute network publics: mediated public spheres where networking technologies and social interactions influence one another. How does such a networked audience use the news?

The Pew Center has already shown that 75% of U.S. audiences get part of their news via email and other sharing; this mediated sociability is increasingly simply part of what we do, and social media have infiltrated our daily habits …

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Snurb — Friday 9 September 2011 21:45

'Ordinary' People in the News, before and after Web 2.0

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Future of Journalism 2011 |

Cardiff.
The next speaker at Future of Journalism is Jeroen de Keyser, whose interest is in how Web 2.0 has changed the presentation of ordinary people’s views in newspapers. Traditionally, journalists view citizens as sources only for anecdotal (eyewitness, vox pop) information; otherwise, they prefer elite actors as sources. As a result, few everyday citizens are visible in news output, and they are mostly positioned to be of low importance.

Web 2.0 has changed this situation somewhat, both through the introduction of citizen journalism practices and by making a wider range of everyday sources available to journalists. Does this lead …

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Snurb — Friday 9 September 2011 21:44

Do Social Media Affect Journalistic Story Sourcing?

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Future of Journalism 2011 |

Cardiff.
The next paper session at Future of Journalism 2011 starts with Megan Knight, whose interest is in the impact of social media on newsgathering. She’s already examined the level of social media-based sourcing of mainstream news reporting in the context of popular protests in the Middle East - which appears to remain relatively low; however, does such low overt use hide a greater amount of use of social media not as direct sources, but as generating story ideas and providing background which is then pursued further my journalists sourcing information from more powerful sources?

Megan pursued this question by …

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Snurb — Friday 9 September 2011 19:57

The Inevitability of Public Funding for U.S. News Media

Politics | Government | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Future of Journalism 2011 |

Cardiff.
Day two of the Future of Journalism conference starts with a keynote from Robert McChesney. He begins by acknowledging yesterday’s keynote, but also notes that he has a somewhat different view on matters; pointing to The Guardian as a special case, endowed by a trust, and publicly funded media in Britain in general, he notes that there aren’t all that many such news organisations left – and these and new initiatives may not be enough in their own right to sustain the future of journalism. More and other approaches are needed.

The world is filled with young people …

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