Digital Journalism

Quels usages pour l'information en ligne? Une synthèse des études disponibles

by Nikos Smyrnaios

proceedings of the doctoral conference GDR TIC et Société, Paris, 27-28 June 2005.

La production de l'information web: quelles alternatives? Une comparaison entre médias traditionnels et pure-players de l'internet

by Nikos Smyrnaios

proceedings of the conference "New Media and Information", Athens, 6-9 May 2009. Co-authored with Bétrice Damian-Gailliard

Online news between redundancy and diversity. A quantitative study of french speaking news websites

by Nikos Smyrnaios

proceedings of the Conference "New Media and Information", Athènes, 6-9 May 2009. Co-authored with Franck Rebillard and Emmanuel Marty.

Does the Long Tail Apply do Online News? A Quantitative Study of French Speaking News Websites

by Nikos Smyrnaios

New Media & Society December 2010 vol. 12 no. 8 1244-1261. Co-authored with Franck Rebillard and Emmanuel Marty.

A multifaceted study of online news diversity: issues and methods

by Nikos Smyrnaios

In Ramón Salaverría (ed.), Diversity of Journalisms, Proceedings of the ECREA Journalism Studies Section and 26th International Conference of Communication (CICOM) at University of Navarra, Pamplona, 4-5 July 2011, p. 228-242. Co-authored with Emmanuel Marty and Franck Rebillard.

The development of local online journalism in South-Western France: the case of La Dépêche du Midi

by Nikos Smyrnaios

In Ramón Salaverría (ed.), Diversity of Journalisms, Proceedings of the ECREA Journalism Studies Section and 26th International Conference of Communication (CICOM) at University of Navarra, Pamplona, 4-5 July 2011, p. 347-358. Co-authored with Franck Bousquet

L’infomédiation de l’information en ligne. Les cas des filiales françaises de Google et de Yahoo

by Nikos Smyrnaios

in CHARTRON Ghislaine et BROUDOUX Evelyne, Document numérique et société, ADBS Éditions, Collection Sciences et techniques de l’information, 2006, p. 43-55

Shaping 21st Century Journalism: Leveraging a “Teaching Hospital Model” in Journalism Education

by Jason Smith

Policy paper published by New America Foundation's Media Policy Initiative.  Co-authored with CW Anderson, Tom Glaisyer, and Marika Rothfeld

Fonaments de la intersecció entre periodisme i innovació

by Raquel Herrera

Esta presentación resume la línean docente iniciada en el curso "Web 2.0. para comunicadores y periodistas"... more Esta presentación resume la línean docente iniciada en el curso "Web 2.0. para comunicadores y periodistas" y el seminario sobre nuevos ecosistemas periodísticos de la Knowledge Federation (Barcelona, noviembre, 2001).

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International Reporting

by Kate Smith

Chapter in 'Specialist Journalism' Orange and Turner (eds) Routledge 2012

Preferencias de la información en Internet. Una nueva propuesta metodológica, ensayada con un grupo de universitarios (2008) / Preferences Design Information on the Internet. A new methodological proposal, carried out with the university students (2008)

by Ana Isabel Bernal Triviño

Published in Revista Latina de Comunicación Social 63, pp. 189 a 219, La Laguna (Tenerife): Universidad de La Laguna.

El objetivo de esta investigación es conocer las preferencias de los universitarios sobre el diseño de la información... more El objetivo de esta investigación es conocer las preferencias de los universitarios sobre el diseño de la información de los medios de comunicación en Internet. La investigación recoge la opinión que la muestra de alumnos seleccionada hace de ocho diseños reales de información en línea. Primero los valoran de forma cuantitativa y después justifican sus respuestas. La metodología cuantitativa y cualitativa permite que los resultados se beneficien del rigor estadístico y de una mayor profundización. Debido a la cantidad de elementos que componen el mensaje visual de una información, esta investigación exploratoria pretende conocer cuáles son los más valorados. Las primeras conclusiones han concretado que existe una preferencia por los diseños más adaptados a las características de Internet, y por elementos como el multimedia y las diferentes modificaciones tipográficas.  Con estos datos se ha iniciado una nueva investigación que concretará, exclusivamente de forma cuantitativa, la importancia de los componentes del diseño citados.

The purpose of this research is to learn about the preferences of young people on the design of information in the media on the Internet. The research takes the view that the sample of students is selected from eight designs real information online. First valued in a quantitative way and then justify their responses. The quantitative and qualitative methodology allows the results benefit from statistical rigor and greater depth. Due to the number of elements that make up the message visual information, this exploratory research pretending to know which are the most  Initial findings have realized that the main preferences are linked to the presence of the media and typographical. With this data has begun a new investigation that materializa only in a quantitative way, the importance of the components of the design cited.

Mobile technologies as production platforms in Brazilian journalism

by Fernando Firmino da Silva

Mobile communication studies have expanded from within various disciplinary areas (in sociology, communication,... more Mobile communication studies have expanded from within various disciplinary areas (in sociology, communication, cyberculture and cultural studies, for example), instigated by they way that practices arising from the emergence of new digital mobile technologies1 and wireless connections2 give rise to new communications phenomena. These phenomena generate real research problems with questions that need to be addressed in order to identify and understand the economic and socio-cultural implications of mobile technologies for contemporary life.

Open APIs and News Organizations: A study of open innovation in online journalism

by Tanja Aitamurto

Presented at the International Symposium for Online Journalism in Austin, Texas, 1st of April 2011.

This paper examines how and why news organizations are deploying open Application Programming Interfaces (so-called... more This paper examines how and why news organizations are deploying open Application Programming Interfaces (so-called “open APIs”) as part of their online strategy, connecting this phenomenon with the “open innovation” paradigm (Chesbrough, 2003) popular in the business management and technology literature. Up to now, the news industry has both under-funded R&D efforts and underappreciated the wisdom of external ideas. But this is beginning to change, as some major news organizations—including four studied here: the Guardian, The New York Times, USA Today, and National Public Radio—have deployed publicly available APIs, which can be seen as the first manifestation of open innovation in the news industry. Through qualitative interviews with key developers, we examine the nature of this phenomenon: the relative motivations, benefits, and challenges associated with using open APIs in the context of online news. Our findings offer a fresh perspective on the business strategy and the process of innovation, both for news organizations and the profession broadly.

"Periodismo ciudadano y nuevos modelos de periodismo en red": innovación y periodismo

by Raquel Herrera

Aquesta sessió sobre les interseccions entre creativitat, innovació i periodisme es va impartir el 08/07/11 al curs Web 2.0. para periodistas y comunicadores de IDEC/UPF.

This session on the cross between creativity, innovation and journalism was given on July the 8th 2011 within the Web 2.0. for journalists and communicators summer program at IDEC/UPF.

¿Qué es la creatividad? La creatividad como negocio.
¿Qué es la innovación? Innovación económica y... more ¿Qué es la creatividad? La creatividad como negocio.
¿Qué es la innovación? Innovación económica y periodística.
Recursos 2.0. innovadores periodísticos para compartir.
El nuevo papel del periodista: el caso Wikileaks.

What is creativity? Creativity as business.
What is innovation? Economic and journalistic innovation.
Innovative 2.0. resources to share.
The new role of the journalist: the Wikileaks case.

History without historians? Medical history and the internet AND Response to Shelton

by Helen King

In Social History of Medicine: online version published June 2011, print version in vol. 25 (2012): 212-221; see also my further 'Response to Shelton' invited by the journal editors, addressing the comments raised by Mr Shelton in his response to my article.

Recent claims that the eighteenth-century men-midwives William Smellie and William Hunter had women murdered to order,... more Recent claims that the eighteenth-century men-midwives William Smellie and William Hunter had women murdered to order, to provide the illustrations for their impressive atlases of obstetrics, raise fresh questions about how medical history is generated, presented and evaluated in the media and, in particular, on the internet. This paper traces the generation and subsequent reception of what, for some people, has now become a ‘historical fact’, in order to illustrate how attempts by medical historians to engage with policy and with the public exist alongside a shift towards the deprofessionalisation of history.

Trust No One (On the Internet): The CIA-Crack-Contra Conspiracy Theory and Professional Journalism

by Jack Bratich

TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA
Vol. 5 No. 2, May2004 109–139

This article examines the “metastory” surrounding Gary Webb’s 1996 “Dark Alliance” series as a moment of crisis in... more This article examines the “metastory” surrounding Gary Webb’s 1996 “Dark Alliance” series as a moment of crisis in mainstream journalism. Two forces converge in Webb’s series and its aftermath: (1) establishment journalism confronts and manages the reemergent phenomenon of conspiracy theory, and (2) establishment print-based journalism attempts to organize a relationship with the emergent medium of the internet. When these two forces collide in the profession, conspiracy theories and the web end up mutually defining each other. This problematization of a conspiracy theory has multiple effects—not only in disqualifying the story itself but in reshaping the profession of journalism in its relation to new technology.
Eschewing technological determinism, this article demonstrates how a new technology is made sensible through a professional discourse as a way of making itmanageable. In turn, professional journalism operates as technical expertise in a liberal political rationality of “governing at a distance.”

Strike a Pose: Comparing Associated Press and UNICEF Visual Representations of the children of Darfur

by Debbie James

Ali, Sadaf, Debbie James, and Fred Vultee. (in press). AFRICAN CONFLICT AND PEACEKEEPING REVIEW. Indiana University Press.

When images of children in conflict situations are selected for a Western audience, what roles do the images fulfill... more When images of children in conflict situations are selected for a Western audience, what roles do the images fulfill for the audience? A content analysis of photographs provided by the Associated Press and the United Nations Children’s Fund suggests that news agencies and aid agencies frame children of conflicts differently, either as passive agents, unable to improve their situation, or as a reflection of an organization’s programs in accordance with ideological and organizational guidelines.

Hypernews, Hyperreaders and Beyond

by Alexander Hay

As published in the Volume 13, Issue 3, December 2010 issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing.

Key to any understanding of online journalism is the nature of its readership, as in, the ‘hyperreaders,’ and this... more Key to any understanding of online journalism is the nature of its readership, as in, the ‘hyperreaders,’ and this paper will argue that they are as important a consideration as the medium itself in that they play a part in how it operates and is disseminated. Key to this is an understanding of Reader Response theory, which argues that it is the reader who defines the meaning of a text, while conflicting political and methodological views on this process must also be taken into account. The paper will also argue that readers are increasingly blurring the difference between themselves and journalists, via blogging and the growing use by established media of images and testimony provided by members of the public. The paper will then conclude that it is this presently unusual relationship between readers and journalists, undermining the traditional hierarchy of news production and consumption, which defines hypernews.