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"Making sense of it all": an attempt to aid journalists in analysing and filtering user generated content

Authors:

Sotiris Diplaris,

Symeon Papadopoulos,

Ioannis Kompatsiaris,

Nicolaus Heise,

Jochen Spangenberg,

Nic Newman, and

Hakim HacidAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '12 Companion: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web

April 2012

Pages 1241 - 1246

https://doi.org/10.1145/2187980.2188267

Published: 16 April 2012 Publication History

Abstract

This position paper explores how journalists can embrace new ways of content provision and authoring, by aggregating and analyzing content gathered from Social Media. Current challenges in the news media industry are reviewed and a new system for capturing emerging knowledge from Social Media is described. Novel features that assist professional journalists in processing sheer amounts of Social Media information are presented with a reference to the technical requirements of the system. First implementation steps are also discussed, particularly focusing in event detection and user influence identification.

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"Making sense of it all": an attempt to aid journalists in analysing and filtering user generated content
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis

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McKernan BStromer-Galley JKorsunska ABolden SRossini PHemsley J(2022)A Human-Centered Design Approach to Creating Tools to Help Journalists Monitor Digital Political Ads: Insights and ChallengesDigital Journalism10.1080/21670811.2022.206432111:3(411-430)Online publication date: 29-Apr-2022
https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2022.2064321
Häring MLoosen WMaalej W(2018)Who is Addressed in this Comment?Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/32743362:CSCW(1-20)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3274336
(2014)Social Multimedia Crawling for Mining and SearchComputer10.1109/MC.2014.13547:5(84-87)Online publication date: May-2014
https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2014.135

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