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Week of Jan 7
- Tue 01/08/2008: Introduction and Overview
  - Overview of Journalism and Computational Disciplines
  - Critique of Example Interactive News Packages
  - ASSIGNMENT #1 Out
    - Ideas for First Assignment
- Thu 01/10/2008: News Gathering and Mobile Technology
  - Mobile Computing
  - People as Sensors: Citizen Journalism, Implications
  - Critique of Citizen Journalism Sites
  - Video: How mobiles changed the face of news. BBC
  - READINGS:
    - Michael Snyder. Monetizing Citizen Media. Link
    - Saul Hansell. Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service. NYTimes Dec. 4, 2006. Link
    - Jessica Vascellaro. News Picture Changes with Cellphone Video. Wall Street Journal Jan 3, 2007. Link
    - Nic Robertson “Changing the Face of Newsgathering Technology” CNN Student News
Week of Jan 14
- Tue 01/15/2008: Elements of Journalism I: Story telling with a purpose
  - READINGS:
    1. K&R: Chapters 1, 2, 3.

- Thu 01/17/2008: Elements of Journalism II: Contextualizing and Sensemaking
  - READINGS:
    1. K&R: Chapters 4, 5, 6.

Week of Jan 21
- Tue 01/22/2008: The Practice of Reporting I
  - Different Types/Styles of Reporting
  - The Blogsphere and Reporting
  - Citizen Journalism
  - READINGS
    1. Scott Gant. “We’re All Journalists Now” Chapter 4, “The Transformation of Journalism and the Citizen Journalist’s Battle for Equality.” 2007. Link
    2. Dana Hull. Blogging Between the Lines. American Journalism Review. Link
    3. Carl Sessions Stepp. Center Stage. American Journalism Review. Link

- Tue 01/24/2008: GUEST SPEAKER: Leonard Witt, Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair & Associate Professor Kennesaw State University
  - See his Public Journalism Network (PJnet.org)
Week of Jan 28
- Monday 01/28/2008: Assignment #1 DUE 1:30p
- Tue 01/29/2008: Automated Reporting and Programming in Journalism I
  - Generation of Newscasts and Documentaries; NewsAtSeven
  - Mashups: Webservices, Online Data Sources
  - Assignment #2 OUT
  - READINGS:
    1. Stefano Bocconi, Frank Nack, and Lynda Hardman. Using Rhetorical Annotations for Generating Video Documentaries. In Proceedings of ICME. 2005, July 2005. PDF
    2. Kevin Poulsen. MySpace Predator Caught by Code. Wired Oct 16, 2006. Link

- Thu 01/31/2008: Information Cascades / Automated Reporting and Programming in Journalism II (Irfan Away)
  - GUEST SPEAKER: Jeremy Goecks, School of Interactive Computing at GT will talk about Information Cascades
  - Investigative Programming
  - Critique of Example Mashups: ChicagoCrimeMap,
Week of Feb 4 *CHECK*
- Tue 02/05/2008: Analysis of News Archives I
  - TOPICS:
    - Web Crawling / Scraping
    - Sentiment Analysis
    - Topic Detection and Tracking
    - Video Analysis
    - Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  - READINGS:
    - Wactlar HD, et al. Complementary video and audio analysis for broadcast news archives. Commun. ACM, Vol. 43, No. 2. (February 2000), pp. 42-47. PDF
    - Tony Mullen and Robert Malouf. A preliminary investigation into sentiment analysis of informal political discourse. Link
- Thu 02/07/2008
  - FREE SESSION to work on Assignment #2
Week of Feb 11
- Tue 02/12/2008: Visual Design, Illustration, and Visualization of News I
- TOPICS:
  - Visual Communication and Information Design
  - Visualizing News Information
- READINGS:
  1. 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. PDF
  2. Havre S, Hetzler E, Whitney P, Nowell L. ThemeRiver: Visualizing Thematic Changes in Large Document Collections. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 8, No. 1. (January 2002), pp. 9-20. PDF

- Thu 02/14/2008: News Aggregation / Summarization / Personalization I
  - TOPICS:
    - Value Added Information Science
    - Models: Open Source (Wikification), Editor Based, Mixed
    - Automated Aggregation/Clustering vs. Person Powered Aggregation
    - Examples: Google News, MSN Newsbot, PopUrls, Digg
  - READINGS:
    1. Chapter 5 from Cass Sunstein. Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge. 2006. PDF

Week of Feb 18
- Mon 02/19/2008: Assignment #2 DUE 1:30p
- Tue 02/19/2008: News Aggregation / Summarization / Personalization II
  - TOPICS:
    - Automated Summarization
    - Personalization, Customization, RSS
    - Relevance Feedback, Collaborative Filtering, Recommendation Systems
    - Examples: NewsInEssence
  - READINGS:
    1. Radev D, Otterbacher J, Winkel A, Blair-Goldensohn S . NewsInEssence: summarizing online news topics. Commun. ACM, Vol. 48, No. 10. (October 2005) PDF
    2. Paul Resnick et al. GroupLens: An Open Architecture for Collaborative Filtering of News. CSCW 1994. PDF

- Thu 02/21/2008: Prepare for Symposium on Computation and Journalism
Week of Feb 25
- Tue 02/26/2008: Discussion regarding Symposium on Computation and Journalism
  - Keynotes and Panels (DAY 1)
- Thu 02/28/2008: FREE SESSION to work on Assignment #3
- Friday 2/29/2008 6:00pm Assignment #3 DUE.
Week of Mar 3
- Tue 03/04/2008: News Aggregation / Summarization / Personalization III
  - READINGS:
    - Radev D, Otterbacher J, Winkel A, Blair-Goldensohn S . NewsInEssence: summarizing online news topics. Commun. ACM, Vol. 48, No. 10. (October 2005) PDF
    - Paul Resnick et al. GroupLens: An Open Architecture for Collaborative Filtering of News. CSCW 1994. PDF
- Thu 03/06/2008: Final Project Discussions
  - Rasmus Lerdorf (YAHOO!) guest lecture.
Week of Mar 10
- Tue 03/11/2008: Final Projects Discussion
- Thu 03/13/2008: Images and Videos in News I
  - DUE: Final Project [Preliminary] Proposal (Intention/Teaming) 1pm.
  - Control Room (2004)
Week of Mar 17
- Tue 03/18/2008 Spring Break!!!
- Thu 03/20/2008 Spring Break!!!
Week of Mar 24
- Tue 03/25/2008: Discussion of Final Projects in CLASS
- Thu 03/27/2008: GUEST SPEAKER: Ramesh Raskar
  - DUE: Final Project [FULL] Proposal 1pm.
Week of Mar 31
- Tue 04/01/2008: Images and Media in NEWS (Images in NEWS)
  - READINGS:
    - 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 PDF
    - Hani Farid “Digital Doctoring: How to tell the real from the fake”, Significance, 3(4):162-166, 2006 (Link).
    - See more from Hani Farid (Publications).
      - “Photography Changes What We Are Willing To Believe”
      - “Digital Image Forensics”
- Thu 04/03/2008: News Consumption and Distribution
  - READINGS:
    - Steve Outing. Where News Consumption is Heading. Editor and Publisher. Feb. 7, 2007. Link
      - See other writings of Steve Outing at http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/stopthepresses_archive.jsp
    - Irene Costera Meijer. The Paradox of Popularity: how young people experience the news. RIPE Conference. November 2006. PDF Link
  - DUE: Final Project Update #1 (with UPDATES in CLASS)
Week of Apr 7
- Tue 04/08/2008: Information Quality I
- Thu 04/10/2008: Information Quality II
Week of Apr 14
- Tue 04/15/2008: Advertising and News
  - DUE: Final Project Update #2 (with UPDATES in CLASS)
- Thu 04/17/2008: Online Ethics
  - READINGS:
    - Alyssa Eckman and Thomas Lindlof. Negotiating the gray lines: An ethnographic case study of organisational conflict between advertorials and news. Journalism Studies 4(1) 2003. pp 65-77. PDF
    - Rick Edmonds. Online Ethics: the beginning of the end of an ad hoc era. Oct. 6, 2006. Link
Week of Apr 21
- Tue 04/22/2007 Final Project Presentations DUE in class
- Thu 04/24/2007 Final Project Presentations
Week of Apr 28 (Final Exams Week)
- Thursday 5/1/2008: Final Reports DUE 2pm.

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Computational Journalism 4803 CJ / 8803 CJ

"Spring 2008"

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