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Comments by a senior BBC News executive at the Media Society event, ‘Broadsheet vs Broadband’ in London offer an insight into how the corporation views user-generated content.
Pete Clifton, who has the unwieldy title of head of editorial development for multimedia journalism explained how UGC fit into the BBC’s newsgathering:
It’s gathering in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m pleased to say that a journal article on professional attitudes to user-generated content by myself and Neil Thurman of City University, London, has been published.
The research paper, called A Clash of Cultures: The integration of user-generated content within professional journalistic frameworks at British newspaper websites, is published in October 2008 issue of Journalism Practice.
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Much of the discussion at the AEJMC annual conference has focused on user-generated content (UGC) and how journalists should adapt to this changing environment.
Jane Singer from the University of Central Lancashire is one of the leading researchers in this area. She talked about how online created a shared space, whereas print was largely [...]
The BBC’s new Statements of Programme Policy has a revealing snippet about the attitudes of TV to user-generated content.
On page 57 of this lengthy document (PDF), the broadcaster says:
We will augment our news coverage with video, still images and messages submitted by viewers, where appropriate, in order to offer first-hand accounts and a wide range [...]
This post is slightly off topic, but it relates to issues of technology, copyright and social media.
Go to a gig today and there’ll be dozens of people shooting photos or video on mobile phones or small point and shoot cameras. I am usually one of these people and have never had any trouble.
Last [...]
I have been at the ICA annual conference in Montreal this week, talking about the research that Neil Thurman and myself have done into “participatory journalism” in Britain. What follows is a shortened version of the talk, but it is still on the long side for a blog post.
The term participatory journalism is itself rather [...]
Image by ToastyKen via FlickrResearching honeymoon plans for Thailand, I’ve been using a combination of legacy media in the form of a Lonely Planet guide, and new media, in this case TripAdvisor.
The two fulfill very different purposes and illustrate the difference between static and networked media.
The Lonely Planet guide is a good place to start. [...]
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BBC sees blog comments as activity of a ‘vocal minority’
November 14, 2008 in BBC, blogging, citizen journalism, journalism, user-generated content
Tags: BBC, blogs, comments, Robert Peston, Helen Boaden
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There’s somewhat of a contradiction in the latest posting on the BBC’s Editors Blog by Helen Boaden, director of BBC News.
Introducing the post, she writes:
This week I gave the keynote speech at the e-Democracy conference. You can read what I said below. I would be interested to know what you think.
The speech gives [...]