R&D Gossip No. 10
01. Robotjournalism: How to create automatically an animated gif with the latest goal at the world cup. Read more
02. Characterizing and Curating Conversation Threads: Expansion, Focus, Volume, Re-entry. Read more
03. The effect of wording on message propagation: Topic- and author-controlled natural experiments on Twitter. Read more | Paper
04. Turning Citizen Media Into Citizen Evidence: Authentication Techniques For Human Rights Researchers. Read more
05. In the “LinkedTV“ project, researchers are seamlessly connecting TV offerings with the Internet. Read more
06. “The news industry desperately needs new storytelling techniques, new research apps for industrious reporters and new streams of revenue. Now is the time to start turning that wish list into concrete tools.”, Matt Carol. Read more
07. DocumentCloud to expand basic features: “The idea is to build additions and enhancements that we can charge for, while allowing journalists to continue to upload, analyze, annotate and publish documents at no cost.”, Mark Horvit & Ted Han. Read more
08. Call for papers: DYAD 2014, the First Workshop on Interaction and Exchange in Social Media. Read more
09. AXES Research Walkthrough: Find out more about the AXES tool which opens up audiovisual archives for academic researchers and journalists. Watch now
10. The BBC has given everyone free access to its College of Journalism. Read more