Computational Journalism
Interesting: The State of the News Media 2008
The Project for Excellence in Journalism has done an amazing report on “The State of the News Media 2008” with reference to American Journalism. It is a very interesting read and very interesting with reference to our efforts on Computation and Journalism.
Funding: NSF (2008) "Symposium on Computation and Journalism"
Award#0813831 – Symposium on Computation and Journalism ABSTRACT Fundamentally, journalism is aimed at collecting news information and disseminating that information with a layer of contextualization and understanding provided by journalists. Recent advances in computational technology are rapidly affecting how news information is gathered, reported and distributed. Furthermore, new avenues for aggregating, visualizing, summarizing, consuming, and […]
Event: Journalism 3G The Future of Technology in the Field
Journalism 3G: The Future of Technology in the Field (A Symposium on Computation and Journalism) was a huge success. We had over 230 registered attendees. Thanks to all participants, panelists, and speakers. Use our Social Network (http://cj.crowdvine.com/) to continue the conversation. Join the FACEBOOK group (http://git.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18427444784) Use the tag “CnJ” on all blog posts and […]
Poster: ACM UIST (2007) "NARC: The News Article Revision Comparator."
A. St. Clair, M. Fong, N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. (2007) “NARC: The News Article Revision Comparator.” In Proceedings addendum of User Interface Software Technology (UIST). Newport, Rhode Island, October 2007 [Abstract] [Poster] ABSTRACT Currency of information in news consumption is an important facet of information quality which involves both the journalist providing updated information and […]
Paper: ACM HyperText (2007) "The Evolution of Authorship in a Remix Society"
N. Diakopoulos, K. Luther, Y. Medynskiy, I. Essa (2007) The Evolution of Authorship in a Remix Society, ACM Hypertext 2007 Conference, Manchester, UK, September 2007 Abstract Authorship entails the constrained selection or generation of media and the organization and layout of that media in a larger structure. But authorship is more than just selection and […]
Home | Journalism 3G: The Future of Technology in the Field
Computational and Journalism (Journalism 3G) Between the advent of the printing press and the rise of the Internet, more than 500 years passed without another technological advancement that significantly empowered the voice of the people and changed the nature of journalism. Now, with the rise of blogs, digital video and citizen journalists, computing technologies continue […]
Paper: IEEE ICCCN (2003) "Mandatory human participation: a new authentication scheme for building secure systems"
Mandatory human participation: a new authentication scheme for building secure systems (IEEEXplore#) Xu, J. Lipton, R. Essa, I. Sung, M. Zhu, Y. In Proceedings. The 12th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, 2003. ICCCN 2003. , 20-22 Oct. 2003, pp 547 – 552, ISSN: 1095-2055, ISBN: 0-7803-7945-4, DOI: 10.1109/ICCCN.2003.1284222 Abstract Mandatory human participation (MHP) […]