How Social Journalism Accelerates the ACEs Movement

How the Internet changed science journalism

A Framework for Social Semantic Journalism

Increasingly, news breaks on social media, where ordinary citizens post images and videos and their own commentary in the form of text. This user-generated content (UGC) is newsworthy information and invaluable for newsrooms. In order to incorporate this data into a news story, the journalist needs to process, compile and verify information on the social web within a very short timespan. This i...

Journalism 2.0: Exploring the Impact of Mobile and Social Media on Journalism Education

According to Hirst (2011) Journalism must change to survive in response to Web 2.0, however in “The Cult Of The Amateur” Keen (2007) argues that Web 2.0 (social media) is f***** (Ha, 2009), as it undermines and decimates the ranks of our professional literary ‘gatekeepers’. In response this paper explores the impact of social media upon Journalism education from two perspectives: both from the ...

A Framework for Social Semantic Journalism Final

In the event of breaking news, a wealth of crowd-sourced data, in the form of text, video and image, becomes available on the Social Web. In order to incorporate this data into a news story, the journalist must process, compile and verify content within a very short timespan. Currently this is done manually and is a time-consuming and labour-intensive process for media organisations. This paper...

Citizen Journalism: How Technology Transforms Journalism Business through Citizen-Reporters in Nigeria

Recent national and international developments are demonstrating the power of technology to transform communication channels, media sources, events, and the fundamental nature of journalism. Technological advances now allow citizens to record and instantly publicize information and images for immediate distribution on ubiquitous communication networks using social media such as Twitter, Faceboo...