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The BBC has long been leading the way in user-generated content, using photos and videos from the public in its reporting. It has just launched two new participatory journalism initiatives.
One is the appointment of an Interactive Reporter, Siobhan Courtney. On the BBC Editors blog, Matthew Eltringham, explains her “beat is simply all the content [...]
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American journalists should realise that there is a world beyond their borders. An example of this is a story in the New York Times: Mainstream News Outlets Start Linking to Other Sites by Brian Stelter.
The article explains how news organizations are becoming more comfortable linking to competitors. What it fails to mention is [...]
US newspapers don’t appear to be making the most of multimedia. A study from Missouri Western State University presented at the Convergence and Society conference in South Carolina found that the US press lagged behind the UK.
The study, by Prof Robert Bergland, together with his students, Lisa Crawford, Sarah Noe, & Melody Ellsworth, studied [...]
Edie Rubinowitz of Northeastern Illinois University provided a fascinating insight into Chicago Public Radio’s community radio project, :Vocalo, at the Convergence and Society conference.
And yes, it is supposed to be “:Vocalo”, as Rubinowitz explained at the start of the talk. The colon is a deliberate attempt to create an emoticon.
:Vocalo is its own distinct radio [...]
Bartosz Wojdynski and Jessica Smith from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill looked at whether there are demographic predictors of online content creation in their presentation at the Convergence and Society conference.
Using data from Pew from 2005, they tried to work out whether it is true that young people tend to create more [...]
The Convergence and Society: The Participatory Web conference at the University of South Carolina kicked off with a session on convergence and citizen journalism.
First up was Thomas Baggerman of Capital University, who has looked at US TV stations application of citizen media.
His findings after looking at 103 TV websites confirms what other studies have shown. [...]
Susan Mernit was in Vancouver on Monday for a Knight News Challenge meetup. Around 40 people were there to hear how to get a slice of the millions the Knight Foundation is investing in innovative projects from around the world.
Susan explained that the Knight News Challenge is looking for four things in a proposal:
It has [...]
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The false report about Steve Jobs that briefly surfaced on CNN’s iReport site has prompted a wave of discussion on the “failings” of citizen journalism.
Apple swiftly dismissed the rumour, and CNN removed the item.
Across the web, there are comments about “the dangers of citizen journalism” (BBC), “citizen journalism just failed” (Read/Write/Web) [...]
In a sign of the BBC’s attitude to blogs, the corporation has appointed a blogger-in-residence.
Internet executive Steve Bowbrick will be blogging for BBC Future Media & Technology for six months.
What is interesting about Bowbrick’s appointment is that he is an outsider, or as he puts it: “I realise I’ve made it to 45 years old [...]
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How comments affect whether we see bias in a news story
October 9, 2008 in academics, journalism, user-generated content
Tags: comments, participatory web, UGC
Preliminary research presented at the Convergence and Society conference in South Carolina suggests that comments on a news story affect the perception of bias in the story itself.
Michele Jones, a Phd student at the University of North Carolina, wanted to investigate the impact that comments had on credibility and reader perception of bias in the [...]