In this document, we describe techniques and approaches concerned with socialweb archive contextualization. In particular, we describe our work on cultural dynamics, which refers to gaining insights into cultural patterns in social media, context-aware social search, and social media mining. We examine the reaction of people in social media to news articles, by developing techniques that could ...

Alfred Hermida recently posited ‘ambient journalism’ as a new framework for paraand professional journalists, who use social networks like Twitter for story sources, and as a news delivery platform. Beginning with this framework, this article explores the following questions: How does Hermida define ‘ambient journalism’ and what is its significance? Are there alternative definitions? What lesso...

In times of crisis, journalism’s own history needs to be reflected upon, both from within and outside the newsroom. This paper attempts both. From a scientific perspective, we examined process digitalization journalism then asked journalists different generations reflect on this process. Based data gathered these semi-structured interviews with German journalists, our presents their evaluation ...