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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Remix it, mash it, break it down and build it up; snippets of information are scattered across the net just waiting to be brought together in novel combinations which present information in enlightening interfaces, allow newsworthy patterns to be uncovered, or just plain show a story that couldn’t otherwise be told. With the new found […]
Participant Journalism & Journalism Participation: Interacting & Authoring in New Media
Monday, January 14th, 2008‘Participatory Journalism’ would have been the easy, obvious name for this panel. But nothing about getting the public involved with its news is easy or obvious. The difficulty, as our panelists will tell you, is that the interaction design requires a fine balance between information and engagement; of making the important interesting. Working in […]
Sensemaking & Information Visualization Panel
Friday, January 11th, 2008Computer science researchers talk about Sensemaking when they’re exploring the role computation plays in helping people to organize information and find meaning in data. A related subject, Information Visualization, deals with the interactive, graphical presentation of information, which serves as a visual Sensemaking aid. Fortunately, journalists know these subjects, but under different names. Sensemaking is […]
Ubiquitous Journalism Panel
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Ubiquitous Journalism is our invented term for how the data flowing from large networks of sensors and/or people can be applied to journalism. In the Ubiquitous Journalism Panel we’re exploring big news data flows, whether they’re coming from lots of digital sensors in confined geography, or from lots of human reporters globally. The discussion […]
Social Computing and Journalism Panel
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008From time immemorial social networks have provided people with their news. It’s only recently, with the help of new technology and interfaces, that social networks have become mass media and, depending on your perspective, either a threat or opportunity for traditional journalism. How can journalists harness their networks of sources and of readers to […]
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