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Papers

Blogging

  1. Ashbee, E. The Lott Resignation, “Blogging” and American Conservatism. Political Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 3., pp. 361-370.
  2. Kumar R, Novak J, Raghavan P, Tomkins A. Structure and evolution of blogspace. Commun. ACM, Vol. 47, No. 12. (December 2004), pp. 35-39.
  3. Nardi BA, Schiano DJ, Gumbrecht M. Blogging as social activity, or, would you let 900 million people read your diary? CSCW 2004.
  4. Glance NS, Hurst M, Tomokiyo T. BlogPulse: Automated Trend Discovery for weblogs. WWW2004.
  5. D. Gruhl et al. Information Diffusion Through Blogspace. WWW2004.

Automated Analysis / Synthesis

  1. Tony Mullen and Robert Malouf. A preliminary investigation into sentiment analysis of informal political discourse. Web Link
  2. Paula Chesley et al. Using Verbs and Adjectives to Automatically Classify Blog Sentiment Web Link
  3. Stefano Bocconi, Frank Nack, and Lynda Hardman. Using Rhetorical Annotations for Generating Video Documentaries. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2005, July 2005 Online PDF
  4. Dhiraj Joshi and Danie Gatica-Perez. Discovering Groups of People in Google News. Workshop in Human Centered Multimedia at ACM Multimedia. 2006.
  5. Wactlar HD, et al. Complementary video and audio analysis for broadcast news archives. Commun. ACM, Vol. 43, No. 2. (February 2000), pp. 42-47.
  6. Levon Lloyd, Dimitrios Kechagias, Steven Skiena. Lydia: A System for Large-Scale News Analysis. String Processing and Information Retrieval: 12th International Conference, SPIRE 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2-4 2005, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3772, pages 161-166 Web Link

Visualization

  1. Rennsion, Earl, “Galaxy of News: An Approach to Visualizing and Understanding Expansive News Landscapes”, Proceedings of the 1994 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Marina del Rey, CA, pp. 3-12, Nov. 1994.
  2. Hangzai Luo, Jianping Fan, Jing Yang, William Ribarsky, Shin’ichi Satoh. Exploring Large-Scale Video News via Interactive Visualization. VAST 2006.
  3. Andrew Mehler, Yunfan Bao, Xin Li, Yue Wang, Steven Skiena. Spatial Analysis of News Sources. IEEE Transactions of Visualization and Computer Graphics 12(5) 2006.

Hypermediation

  1. Daisuke Ikeda, Toshiaki Fujiki, Manabu Okumura. Automatically Linking News articles to Blog entries, AAAI Spring Symposium Series Computational Apploaches to Anlyzing Weblogs. 2006. Web Link
  2. Kevin Livingston, Mark Dredze, Kristian Hammond, Larry Birnbaum. Beyond Broadcast. IUI 2003. Web Link
  3. Daisuke Kitayama and Kazutoshi Sumiya. An Evaluation System for News Video Streams and Blogs. SAC 2006.

Credibility

  1. Fernanda B. Viégas. Bloggers’ Expectations of Privacy and Accountability: An Initial Survey] Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(3) 2005. Web Link
  2. Tom Cross. Improving the reliability of open, collaborative wikis
  3. B.J. Fogg. The Elements of Computer Credibility. CHI 1999. ACM Link
  4. B.J. Fogg. What makes web sites credible? A report on a large quantitative study. CHI 2001 Web Link

Image Manipulation Detection

  1. Junfeng He, Zhouchen Lin, Lifeng Wang, and Xiaoou Tang, Detecting Doctored JPEG Images via DCT Coefficient Analysis, 9th European Conf. on Computer Vision, Vol. 3953, pp. 423-435, 2006, available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11744078_33
  2. Zhouchen Lin, Rongrong Wang, Xiaoou Tang, and Heung-Yeung Shum, Detecting Doctored Images Using Camera Response Normality and Consistency, IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2005 (CVPR’05), pp.1087-1092.

Authority

  1. Nikolaos Korfiatis et al.Evaluating Authoritative Sources Using Social networks: an insight from Wikipedia. Online Information Review, Vol. 30, No. 3. (May 2006), pp. 252-262. Web Link
  2. L. Page, S. Brin, R. Motwani, and T. Winograd. The PageRank citation ranking: Bringing order to the web. Technical report, Stanford Digital Library Technologies Project, 1998. Web Link
  3. Aaron Krowne and Anil Bazaz. Authority Models for Collaborative Authoring. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (2004), pp. 18-24. Web Link

Summarization

  1. Michael Christel et al. Collages as Dynamic Summaries for News Video. ACM Multimedia 2002.
  2. Jun Yang and Alexander Hauptmann. 3WNews: Who, Where and When in News Video. ACM Multimedia 2006. Media:3wnews.pdf
  3. Boykin S, Merlino A. Machine learning of event segmentation for news on demand. Commun. ACM, Vol. 43, No. 2. (February 2000), pp. 35-41.
  4. Radev D, Otterbacher J, Winkel A, Blair-Goldensohn S . NewsInEssence: summarizing online news topics. Commun. ACM, Vol. 48, No. 10. (October 2005), pp.
  5. Mckeown KR, Barzilay R, Evans D, Hatzivassiloglou V, Klavans JL, Nenkova A, Sable C, Schiffman B, Sigelman S. Tracking and summarizing news on a daily basis with Columbia’s Newsblaster. Proceedings of HLT 2002 Human Language Technology Conference.

Advertising

  1. Alyssa Eckman and Thomas Lindlof. Negotiating the gray lines: An ethnographic case study of organisational conflict between advertorials and news Link

Personalization

  1. Paul Resnick et al. GroupLens: An Open Architecture for Collaborative Filtering of News. CSCW 1994.

Articles

  1. Flagging station tries reinventing TV news with home-video tech. Web Link
  2. MySpace Predator Caught by Code Web Link [Computational Investigative Reporting]
  3. Saving Democracy with Web 2.0 Web Link
  4. The online newsroom Web Link
  5. Monetizing Citizen Media Web Link
  6. Computers writing financial news Web Link
  7. Times Draws Ragged Line Between Fact and Opinion Web Link
  8. Are Fake Videos Next? Web Link
  9. Techies Hot on Concept of ‘Wisdom of Crowds,’ But It Has Some Pitfalls USA Today Web Link
  10. The Broken Wall: newspaper coverage of its advertisers PDF
  11. Courts are asked to crack down on bloggers, websites Web Link
  12. Online Ethics: the beginning of the end of an ad hoc era PDF
  13. Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service Web Link
  14. Blogging Between the Lines. (relationship between blogging and mainstream media) Web Link
  15. A Newspaper Chain Sees Its Future, And It’s Online and Hyper-Local. Web Link

Sites of Interest

Citizen Journalism
CNN Exchange
Backfence Local citizen produced news.
OhMyNews Citizen Journalism
NewAssignment

Visualization
10×10 News Viz
Buzztracker
TextMap News heat maps
Newssniffer Monitoring changes in news and visualizing censorship
Chicago Crime Map

Interactivity
Hotsoup
Interactive Narratives

Credibility
Stanford Web Credibility Research

Aggregation
Google News
MSN Newsbot
PopURLs

Summarization
News In Essence

Web Crawlers
Nutch
WebSPHINX

Other Resources
Technorati Blog tracking
Feedster RSS search
BBC Backstage
Society for News Design
LingPipe (a suite of java libraries for linguistic analysis)
Lucene (open source java library for doing text indexing)
BlogPulse and Nielson BuzzMetrics (media monitoring online)
Nist TDT (topic detection and tracking competitions)