Assignment 1. Multimedia News Gathering and Reporting. [[Link|http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfk28z2g_21fhcdbp]]

*Introduction to the class\n**What is expected?\n**What would be the \n*** assignments\n*** final project\n*Examples of Multimedia News Stories (Nick)\n** Defining the Barrier: an example of maps + video feature/narrative [[Link|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/interactives/israel/israelFence.html]]\n** The Gulf Coast in Katrina's Wake: maps + panoramas: spatial understanding & immediacy [[Link|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2005/09/01/CU2005090101358.html]]\n** War in Lebanon. timed b&w photo essay, voice overs, ambient sound, and interspersed text [[Link|http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essays/lebanon.aspx]]\n** The Last Night - Sunshine Speedway: photo essay with some narration and ambient audio, but user initiated navigation through photos [[Link|http://www.sptimes.com/2004/11/28/speedway/gallery.shtml]]\n** Heavy Beginnings: mostly text with captioned photos throughout [[Link|http://www.sacbee.com/static/live/news/projects/theweight/chapter1/001.html ]] Also, interactive photos showing before/after photos [[Link|http://www.sacbee.com/static/live/news/projects/theweight/flash/main.html]]\n** Discovery's Liftoff. spatial orientation/perspectives + video [[Link|http://msnbc.com/modules/spaceshuttle/discoverylaunch/]]\n** History of Religion [[Link|http://mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html]]

Assignment 2. Information Diffusion in the Blogsphere. [[Link|http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfk28z2g_8hn2v4q&revision=_published]]

*Assignment 1 partners\n*Discussion of Mobile News Gathering\n**A Comic Strip to set the stage: [[Link|http://web.mac.com/aaronandpatty/iWeb/What%20the%20Duck/Comic%20Strips/B0AC6335-407E-4DEC-8B6F-A6EE57B13774.html]]\n**News Sources\n**Individual vs Networked Sensors\n**People vs gadget sensors\n**Mobile gathering: access, reactivity, portability, miniturization\n*Some sites of interest\n#Bluffton Today. community centered news gathering combining citizen + traditional, online and off [[Link|http://www.blufftontoday.com/]]\n#Scoopt (an online marketplace for newsworthy "citizen" photos) [[Link|http://www.scoopt.com/]]\n#CNN Exchange [[Link|http://www.cnn.com/exchange]]\n#Yahoo/Reuters: You Witness News [[Link|http://news.yahoo.com/you-witness-news]]\n#Examples of the types of events people are capturing [[Link|http://www.citizenjournalismawards.co.uk/index.php?t=viewentries]]\n#List of Citizen Media Initiatives http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/002226.php\n*Visit from CNN/Turner Folks (Paul Ferguson / Terence Burke)

Assignment 3. In Pairs. Due 3/2/07 by 6:00pm\n\nProgramming in Reporting. [[Link|http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfk28z2g_34gc8p9d]]

*Administrativa / Questions on Assignment\n*Finish up discussion of Mobile News Gathering\n*Discussion of The Elements of Journalism\n*Information Science and Reporting\n*Media Bias\n*What can computation do?

*Guests: Susan Robinson (video documentary investigative reporting)\n*Types of reporting\n*Discussion of readings: blogging, online newsrooms\n*Asgn 1 redux, Asgn 2 out

* Guests: Colin Potts (documentary photography)\n* Assignment 1 Critique and Discussion\n* Automated Reporting\n**Thomson Financial News [[Link|http://www.publicradio.org/tools/media/player/marketplace/2006/10/04_mpp?start=00:00:22:32.0&end=00:00:27:04.0]]\n**Vox Populi [[Link|http://homepages.cwi.nl/~media/demo/IWA/]]\n**Automated Newscast NewsAtSeven [[Link|http://www.newsatseven.com/]]\n*Programming in Journalism\n**Investigative programming\n**Consumer programming\n**Mashups & webservices examples\n\nSlides [[PPT|http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2007/cs4803cj_spring/Slides/automated reporting and programming in journalism2.ppt]]\n

For class:\n*Assignment 1 Critique and Discussion\n*Continuation of last week's topics\n*Analysis of news Archives\n**Text Analysis: classification, sentiment analysis\n**Video/Audio Analysis\n**Applications and Discussion\n\nSlides [[PPT|http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2007/cs4803cj_spring/Slides/analysis of news archives.ppt]]\n

Guest Speaker: John Stasko\n\n*Finish up stuff from last week on audio and video analysis\n*Chris "Spatial Analysis of News"\n*Sergio "ThemeRiver"\n*John Stasko\n*Visualization Overview + some Examples\n\n

Guest: Andrea Forte\n\nClass Plan\n* Finish up going over examples of news visualizations\n* Discussion of Assignment 2 and relation to aggregation\n* Andrea Forte on Wikis and collaborative news production\n* Ellie on Infotopia\n* Critiques of News Aggregators\n

Class Plan\n*Final Project Ideas\n*Discuss Asgn 3\n*Summarization + Personalization\n*Readings: Puja and Shiva

Class Plan\n*Final Project Updates\n*Overview of consumption and distribution\n*Discussion of your news diet and consumption habits\n*Readings (Kirti and Sheila)

Class Plan:\n*Project Updates\n*Readings (Anandi and Ranjith)\n*Guest Speaker Ian Bogost will talk about [[NewsGaming|http://www.newsgaming.com/]]\n*Other topics to discuss: Information Accessibility and Literacy, Globalization / [[Translation|http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/what_the_press_loses_in_translation.php]], Media Monitoring, Internet Zoning, Legal Issues (copyright, [[libel|http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/faq-defamation.php]], slander),

*[[01_Assignment]] Multimedia News Gathering and Reporting. [[Link|http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfk28z2g_21fhcdbp]]. Assigned: 1/8/2007 @@color:red;''Due''@@: 1/30/2007\n*[[02_Assignment]] Information Diffusion in the Blogsphere. [[Link|http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfk28z2g_8hn2v4q&revision=_published]] Assigned 1/30/2007 @@color:red; ''Due''@@: 2/13/2007\n*[[03_Assignment]] Programming in Reporting. [[Link|http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfk28z2g_34gc8p9d]] Assigned 2/13/2007 @@color:red; ''Due''@@: 3/2/2007\n*[[04_Assignment]] News Aggregator Critique. [[Link|http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfk28z2g_40hj3mkm]] Assigned 2/27/2007 @@color:red; ''Due''@@: 3/13/2007

!!Books\n#Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel. The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and Public Should Expect. 2001.<br>\n#Bob Franklin, Martin Hamer, Mark Hanna, Marie Kinsey, John Richardson. Key Concepts in Journalism Studies. 2005.\n#Dan Gillmor. We The Media. 2006. [[Amazon Link|http://www.amazon.com/We-Media-Grassroots-Journalism-People/dp/0596102275/sr=8-1/qid=1158173281/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-3740643-5972760?ie=UTF8&s=books]] <br>\n#James Surowiecki. The Wisdom of Crowds. 2005. [[Amazon Link |http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki/dp/0385721706/sr=1-1/qid=1158173315/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-3740643-5972760?ie=UTF8&s=books]]<br>\n#B.J. Fogg. Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do. 2003. Morgan Kaufman. [[Amazon Link |http://www.amazon.com/Persuasive-Technology-Computers-Interactive-Technologies/dp/1558606432/sr=8-1/qid=1158886165/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-9327773-6349700?ie=UTF8&s=books]] <br>\n#Mindy McAdams. Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages [[Amazon Link| Online examples: http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Journalism-Create-Multimedia-Packages/dp/0240806972/sr=8-1/qid=1162941786/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-3001343-9172916?ie=UTF8&s=books]] [[Online Examples|http://flashjournalism.com/examples/pro_examples.htm]]\n!!Papers\n//Blogging//\n#Ashbee, E. The Lott Resignation, "Blogging" and American Conservatism. Political Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 3., pp. 361-370.\n#Kumar R, Novak J, Raghavan P, Tomkins A. Structure and evolution of blogspace. Commun. ACM, Vol. 47, No. 12. (December 2004), pp. 35-39.\n#Nardi BA, Schiano DJ, Gumbrecht M. Blogging as social activity, or, would you let 900 million people read your diary? CSCW 2004. \n#Glance NS, Hurst M, Tomokiyo T. BlogPulse: Automated Trend Discovery for weblogs. WWW2004.\n#D. Gruhl et al. Information Diffusion Through Blogspace. WWW2004.\n//Automated Analysis / Synthesis//\n#Tony Mullen and Robert Malouf. A preliminary investigation into sentiment analysis of informal political discourse. [[Web Link|http://edu.tsuda.ac.jp/~mullen/Papers/AAAI2006.pdf#search=%22%22A%20preliminary%20investigation%20into%20sentiment%20analysis%20of%20informal%20political%20discourse%2C%22%22 ]]\n# Paula Chesley et al. Using Verbs and Adjectives to Automatically Classify Blog Sentiment [[Web Link|http://www-student.cse.buffalo.edu/~pchesley/aaai_caaw_chesley_et_al_short.pdf#search=%22%22Using%20Verbs%20and%20Adjectives%20to%20Automatically%20Classify%20Blog%20Sentiment%22%22 ]]\n# Stefano Bocconi, Frank Nack, and Lynda Hardman. Using Rhetorical Annotations for Generating Video Documentaries. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2005, July 2005 [[Online PDF|http://homepages.cwi.nl/~media/publications/icme2005.pdf]]\n#Dhiraj Joshi and Danie Gatica-Perez. Discovering Groups of People in Google News. Workshop in Human Centered Multimedia at ACM Multimedia. 2006.\n#Wactlar HD, et al. Complementary video and audio analysis for broadcast news archives. Commun. ACM, Vol. 43, No. 2. (February 2000), pp. 42-47.\n#Levon Lloyd, Dimitrios Kechagias, Steven Skiena. Lydia: A System for Large-Scale News Analysis. String Processing and Information Retrieval: 12th International Conference, SPIRE 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2-4 2005, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3772, pages 161-166 [[Web Link|http://www.algorithm.cs.sunysb.edu/lloyd/news_full.pdf]]\n//Visualization//\n#Rennsion, Earl, "Galaxy of News: An Approach to Visualizing and Understanding Expansive News Landscapes", Proceedings of the 1994 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Marina del Rey, CA, pp. 3-12, Nov. 1994.\n# Hangzai Luo, Jianping Fan, Jing Yang, William Ribarsky, Shin'ichi Satoh. Exploring Large-Scale Video News via Interactive Visualization. VAST 2006.\n#Andrew Mehler, Yunfan Bao, Xin Li, Yue Wang, Steven Skiena. Spatial Analysis of News Sources. IEEE Transactions of Visualization and Computer Graphics 12(5) 2006.\n//Hypermediation//\n# Daisuke Ikeda, Toshiaki Fujiki, Manabu Okumura. Automatically Linking News articles to Blog entries, AAAI Spring Symposium Series Computational Apploaches to Anlyzing Weblogs. 2006. [[Web Link|http://www.lr.pi.titech.ac.jp/~ikeda/CAAW-06-IkedaD.pdf#search=%22%22Automatically%20Linking%20News%20articles%20to%20Blog%20Entries%22%22]]\n#Kevin Livingston, Mark Dredze, Kristian Hammond, Larry Birnbaum. Beyond Broadcast. IUI 2003. [[Web Link|http://infolab.northwestern.edu/infolab/downloads/papers/paper10119.pdf]]\n#Daisuke Kitayama and Kazutoshi Sumiya. An Evaluation System for News Video Streams and Blogs. SAC 2006. \n//Credibility//\n#Fernanda B. Viégas. Bloggers' Expectations of Privacy and Accountability: An Initial Survey] Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(3) 2005. [[Web Link|http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue3/viegas.html]] \n#Tom Cross. [[Improving the reliability of open, collaborative wikis|http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/cross/index.html]]\n#B.J. Fogg. The Elements of Computer Credibility. CHI 1999. [[ ACM Link|http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=302979.303001]]\n#B.J. Fogg. What makes web sites credible? A report on a large quantitative study. CHI 2001 [[ Web Link|http://captology.stanford.edu/pdf/p61-fogg.pdf#search=%22what%20makes%20a%20web%20site%20credible%22]]\n//Image Manipulation Detection//\n#Junfeng He, Zhouchen Lin, Lifeng Wang, and Xiaoou Tang, Detecting Doctored JPEG Images via DCT Coefficient Analysis, 9th European Conf. on Computer Vision, Vol. 3953, pp. 423-435, 2006, available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11744078_33\n#Zhouchen Lin, Rongrong Wang, Xiaoou Tang, and Heung-Yeung Shum, Detecting Doctored Images Using Camera Response Normality and Consistency, IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2005 (CVPR’05), pp.1087-1092.\n//Authority//\n#Nikolaos Korfiatis et al.Evaluating Authoritative Sources Using Social networks: an insight from Wikipedia. Online Information Review, Vol. 30, No. 3. (May 2006), pp. 252-262. [[Web Link|http://www.korfiatis.info/papers/OISJournal_final.pdf]]\n#L. Page, S. Brin, R. Motwani, and T. Winograd. The PageRank citation ranking: Bringing order to the web. Technical report, Stanford Digital Library Technologies Project, 1998. [[Web Link|[http://coblitz.codeen.org:3125/citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/16693/http:zSzzSzwww.mri.mq.edu.auzSz~einatzSzweb_irzSzpageranksub.pdf/page98pagerank.pdf]]\n#Aaron Krowne and Anil Bazaz. Authority Models for Collaborative Authoring. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (2004), pp. 18-24. [[Web Link|http://br.endernet.org/~akrowne/my_papers/authority_models/authority_models.pdf]]\n//Summarization//\n#Michael Christel et al. Collages as Dynamic Summaries for News Video. ACM Multimedia 2002.\n#Jun Yang and Alexander Hauptmann. 3WNews: Who, Where and When in News Video. ACM Multimedia 2006. [[Media:3wnews.pdf]]\n# Boykin S, Merlino A. Machine learning of event segmentation for news on demand. Commun. ACM, Vol. 43, No. 2. (February 2000), pp. 35-41.\n# Radev D, Otterbacher J, Winkel A, Blair-Goldensohn S . NewsInEssence: summarizing online news topics. Commun. ACM, Vol. 48, No. 10. (October 2005), pp.\n# Mckeown KR, Barzilay R, Evans D, Hatzivassiloglou V, Klavans JL, Nenkova A, Sable C, Schiffman B, Sigelman S. Tracking and summarizing news on a daily basis with Columbia's Newsblaster. Proceedings of HLT 2002 Human Language Technology Conference. \n//Advertising//\n# Alyssa Eckman and Thomas Lindlof. Negotiating the gray lines: An ethnographic case study of organisational conflict between advertorials and news [[Link|http://wiki.cc.gatech.edu/eye-team/images/4/42/Negotiating_the_gray_lines.pdf]]\n//Personalization//\n# Paul Resnick et al. GroupLens: An Open Architecture for Collaborative Filtering of News. CSCW 1994.\n\n!!Articles\n#Flagging station tries reinventing TV news with home-video tech. [[Web Link|http://www.gradethenews.org/2005/kron.htm]]\n# MySpace Predator Caught by Code [[Web Link|http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71948-0.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2]] [Computational Investigative Reporting]\n#Saving Democracy with Web 2.0 [[Web Link|http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72001-0.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2]]\n#The online newsroom [[Web Link|http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4075]]\n#Monetizing Citizen Media [[Web Link|http://www.naa.org/sitecore/content/Home/PRESSTIME/2006/November/PRESSTIMEcontent/Monetizing_Citizen_Media.aspx]]\n#Computers writing financial news [[Web Link|http://www.ft.com/cms/s/bb3ac0f6-2e15-11db-93ad-0000779e2340.html]]\n#Times Draws Ragged Line Between Fact and Opinion [[Web Link|http://observer.com/20060925/20060925_Tom_Scocca_pageone_offtherec.asp]]\n#Are Fake Videos Next? [[Web Link|http://news.com.com/Are+fake+videos+next/2100-1008_3-6113449.html]]\n#Techies Hot on Concept of 'Wisdom of Crowds,' But It Has Some Pitfalls USA Today [[Web Link|http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/maney/2006-09-12-wisdom-of-crowds_x.htm]]\n# The Broken Wall: newspaper coverage of its advertisers [[PDF|http://wiki.cc.gatech.edu/eye-team/images/f/f5/Washington_Monthly_The_Broken_Wall_-_newspaper_coverage_of_its_advertisers.pdf]]\n#Courts are asked to crack down on bloggers, websites [[Web Link|http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20061003/1a_cover03.art.htm]]\n#Online Ethics: the beginning of the end of an ad hoc era [[PDF|http://wiki.cc.gatech.edu/eye-team/images/6/6c/Online_Ethics.pdf]]\n#Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service [[Web Link|http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/technology/04yahoo.html?ex=1322888400&en=a95994d8657f9861&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss]]\n#Blogging Between the Lines. (relationship between blogging and mainstream media) [[Web Link|http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4269]]\n#A Newspaper Chain Sees Its Future, And It's Online and Hyper-Local. [[Web Link|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/03/AR2006120301037_pf.html]]\n!!Sites of Interest\n//Citizen Journalism\n[[CNN Exchange|http://www.cnn.com/exchange]]\n[[Backfence|http://www.backfence.com/]] Local citizen produced news.\n[[OhMyNews|http://english.ohmynews.com/index.asp]] Citizen Journalism\n[[NewAssignment|http://newassignment.wordpress.com/]] \n\n//Visualization//\n[[10x10 News Viz|http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html]]\n[[Buzztracker|http://www.buzztracker.org/]]\n[[TextMap|http://www.textmap.com//heatmaps]] News heat maps\n[[Newssniffer|http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk/]] Monitoring changes in news and visualizing censorship\n[[Chicago Crime Map|http://www.chicagocrime.org/map/]]\n\n//Interactivity//\n[[Hotsoup|http://www.hotsoup.com/]]\n[[Interactive Narratives|http://www.interactivenarratives.org/]]\n\n//Credibility//\n[[Stanford Web Credibility Research|http://credibility.stanford.edu/]]\n\n//Aggregation//\n[[Google News|http://news.google.com/]]\n[[MSN Newsbot|http://newsbot.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx]]\n[[PopURLs|http://popurls.com/]]\n\n//Summarization//\n[[News In Essence|http://lada.si.umich.edu:8080/clair/nie1/nie.cgi]]\n\n//Web Crawlers//\n[[Nutch|http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/]]\n[[WebSPHINX|http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rcm/websphinx/]]\n\n//Other Resources//\n[[Technorati|http://www.technorati.com/]] Blog tracking\n[[Feedster|http://www.feedster.com/]] RSS search\n[[BBC Backstage|http://backstage.bbc.co.uk]] \n[[Society for News Design|http://www.snd.org/]] \n[[LingPipe|http://www.alias-i.com/lingpipe/index.html]] (a suite of java libraries for linguistic analysis)\n[[Lucene|http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html]] (open source java library for doing text indexing)\n[[BlogPulse|http://www.blogpulse.com/index.html]] and [[Nielson BuzzMetrics|http://www.nielsenbuzzmetrics.com/index.asp]] (media monitoring online)\n[[Nist TDT|http://www.nist.gov/speech/tests/tdt/]] (topic detection and tracking competitions)

A study of digital multimedia and the analysis and synthesis of digital video. Special attention paid to techniques for generating video special effects.\n<<<\n3.000 Credit Hours\n3.000 Lecture hours\n<<<

\n!Information\nHere is the form that I want each and every member of the class to fill out, and email it to me (and only me, ie DO NOT "REPLY ALL" to this MESSAGE) by Wednesday May 2, 9am EST (NO EXCEPTIONS). Sooner would be appreciated. Please keep the subject header of the email response the same as above. (At least make sure CJ2007 is in the subject). A non-response to this may have an adverse effect on your performance evaluation for this class. Section (A), (B), (C) and (D) are required by everyone. Section (E) and (F) are optional.\n\n!(A) Permissions:\n\nI, <Your Name> hereby Grant Georgia Tech and Professor Essa permission to show the videos, related documentation, and the images related to the projects and assignments that I have worked on as part of this class (CS 4803/8803cj, Spring 2007) via web, any other form of media, and/or in form of a live presentation.\n\nI, <Your Name> have also acquired permissions from others who helped with this project and related materials and they have agreed with the sharing of these materials.\n\nName:\nPERMENANT Address:\nPERMENANT EMAIL ADDRESS:\n\n!(B) Final Project Contributions:\n\nName:\nGroup #:\nGroup NAME: \nGroup Member's NAMES:\n<....>\n<....>\n<....>\n\nWhat my ROLE was in the group?\n<ANSWER HERE>\n\nDid I meet this required GOAL?\n<ANSWER HERE>\n\nIf NOT, what I did instead?\n<ANSWER HERE>\n\nWhat was the role of my GROUPMATEs?\n<NAME - ROLE>\n<NAME - ROLE>\n<NAME - ROLE>\n\nDid they meet their required ROLE? If not what did they do?\n\nDid someone not on the team help? What did they do?\n\nWho was the leader? (a leader is NOT necessary for this, but sometime\nsomeone takes that role)\n\nWas the leader effective?\n\nWere you involved with all aspects of the project and know about everything that went into the production?\n\nWhat was the hardest part of your project? your group's project?\n\nOn a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your performance for the final project?\n\nOn a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your team-mate's performance for the final project?\nLastName1: <SCORE>\nLastName2: <SCORE>\nLastName3: <SCORE>\n\nIf given a chance, will you choose to work with your partners again? \nExplain both YES and NO.\n\n! (C) Contributions within OTHER projects/assignments\n*Assignment 1:\n**Name your Partners:\n**Rate your Performance (0-10):\n**Rate your Patner's Performances (0-10)\n\n*Assignment 3:\n**Name your Partners:\n**Rate your Performance (0-10):\n**Rate your Patner's Performances (0-10)\n\n*Assignment 4:\n**Name your Partners:\n**Rate your Performance (0-10):\n**Rate your Patner's Performances (0-10)\n\n!(D) Mailing List\nThe Mailing list for this class is at https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/cj2007. Please update your email address on that list. I will use that email list to share with you interesting things like job openings in this area and future screenings. \n\n!(E) Comments:\nAny thoughts about the class. Answer to this has NO effect on your grade. I really value input from students.\n\n\n!(F) Research:\nI am always looking for students who are motivated to do research in this area. If so inclined/interested, please come talk to me and Nick as soon as possible, as we have a lot of ideas we are interested in pursuing.

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We want a short concise description of \n*what you did?\n*why? \n*how well it worked?\n*why it did not? and\n*what else would you have tried?\n\nAlso, please provide documentation (including sources as appropriate) of your project.\n\nPlease enter the report on the <<COWEB>> at http://swiki.cc.gatech.edu/cj2007/13 and also provide the sources/documentation there. Prefer if you do not leave the material on some other personal site. You can also zip/tar up the material and email it to Nick.\n

*1/16/2007: Digital News Gathering at CNN\n<<<\n*Paul Ferguson, CNN, Supervising Editor for International Newsgathering. Spent almost a decade as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press, reporting on major events from Russia, China and Japan. Has been at CNN since 1997, where he started at cnn.com before moving to newsgathering. \n*Terence Burke, CNN\n<<<\n*1/23/2007: \n*1/30/2007: [[Colin Potts|http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~potts/]] on Photo Documentaries\n*2/202007: [[John Stasko|http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~john.stasko/]] on Info Visualization, applied to NEWS. (see his class on [[Info Viz|http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~john.stasko/7450/]] and its [[resources|http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~john.stasko/7450/resources.html]])\n*2/27/2007: [[Andrea Forte|http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~aforte/]] on Collaborative Authoring and Wikis.

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[[Welcome]]\n[[Overview]]\n[[Syllabus|http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfk28z2g_16cfrsh9]]\n[[Schedule]]\n[[Bibliography]]\n[[Assignments]]\n[[Projects]]\n[[Guest Speakers]]\n[[Recent Changes|TabTimeline]]\n[[Blog|http://gt-cj.blogspot.com]]\n[[CoWeb|http://swiki.cc.gatech.edu/cj2007/]]\n----\n\n\n^^[[TiddlyWiki|http://www.tiddlywiki.com]] version <<version>>^^\n\n<html> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="./images/favicon.ico" /> </html>\n\n<<alias CS4480 "[[CS 4475|http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2007/cs4480_spring/]]">>\n<<alias TiddlyWiki "[[TiddlyWiki|http://www.tiddlywiki.com]]">>\n<<alias check "[img[check|images/check.jpg]]">>\n<<alias BLOG "[[Blog|http://gt-cj.blogspot.com]]">>\n<<alias COWEB "[[CoWeb|http://swiki.cc.gatech.edu/cj2007/]]">>\n<<alias IAE "[[Irfan Essa|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~irfan]]">>\n<<alias NAD "[[Nick Diakopoulos|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~nad]]">>\n<html>\n<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">\n</script>\n<script type="text/javascript">\n_uacct = "UA-521785-12";\nurchinTracker();\n</script>\n</html>

Technology is rapidly affecting how news information is gathered, reported, visualized, aggregated, summarized, consumed and distributed. Computational Journalism (CS4803/CS8803) is a special topics class aimed at understanding the computational and technological advancements in the area of journalism. In this class we will explore themes such as (a) storytelling in the context of news, (b) sense-making from diverse news information sources, (c) the impact of more and cheaper networked sensors (d) collaborative human models for information aggregation and sense-making, (e) mashups and the use of programming in journalism, (f) the impact of mobile computing and data gathering, (g) computational approaches to information quality, (h) data mining for personalization and aggregation, (i) authoring and broadcasting, and (j) citizen journalism.\n\nIf you're interested in news and want to use your techno-savvy to make it better, this class will give you the background you need to understand journalistic practice and make a difference with computation. Students will do projects to get some hands-on experience in this new and exciting area. \n\nFor more information contact [[Irfan Essa|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~irfan/]] and [[Nick Diakopoulos|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~nad]]\n\n

Final projects should be composed of both analytic and constructive components; analyze a particular issue and then construct a prototype in response to that. The goal is to build some form of new media artifact or prototype which considers some of the issues that we have been talking about this semester (e.g. journalism practice, automation of reporting, news gathering, sense-making, contextualization, aggregation, personalization, information quality and bias etc.). \n\nSome high level ideas for the final project are [[here|http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfk28z2g_44gmgt32]].

!Day Schedule/Time\n\nClass weekly timing are: \n|!Mondays |!Tuesdays | !Wednesdays |!Thursdays |!Fridays|\n| | 3:05p - 5:55p | | | |\nFirst Class Meets in Instr Center 119, but will move to TSRB 233 from the following week.\n\n!Weekly Schedule (<<check>> = done!)\n\n#Week of Jan 8\n**Tue 01/09/2007 [[01_Introduction]], [[01_Assignment]] OUT\n#Week of Jan 15\n**Tue 01/16/2007 [[02_NewsGatheringandMobileComputing]]\n#Week of Jan 22 (Irfan Away) \n**Tue 01/23/2007 [[03_Journalism_and_Reporting_Theory]]\n#Week of Jan 29 \n**Tue 01/30/2007 [[01_Assignment]] @@color:red; ''Due''@@ before class, [[02_Assignment]] OUT, [[04_The_Practice_of_Reporting]]\n#Week of Feb 5\n**Tue 02/06/2007 [[05_AutomatedReporting_and_Programming_in_Journalism]]\n#Week of Feb 12\n**Tue 02/13/2007 [[02_Assignment]] @@color:red; ''Due''@@ before class, [[03_Assignment]] OUT, [[06_Analysis_of_News_Archives]]\n#Week of Feb 19\n**Tue 02/20/2007 [[07_Visual_Design_and_Visualization_of_News]]\n#Week of Feb 26\n**Tue 02/27/2007 [[08_News_Aggregation]]\n#Week of Mar 5\n**Tue 03/06/2007 [[09_Summarization_Personalization]]\n#Week of Mar 12\n**Tue 03/13/2007 Critique @@color:red; ''Due''@@ for class\n#Week of Mar 19\n**Tue 03/20/2007 @@color:green; ''Spring Break!!!''@@\n#Week of Mar 26\n**Tue 03/27/2007 Editing, Credibility, Authority\n#Week of Apr 2\n**Tue 04/03/2007 Image and Video Manipulation and Forensics\n#Week of Apr 9\n**Tue 04/10/2007 [[11_News_Consumption_and_Distribution]]\n#Week of Apr 16\n**Tue 04/17/2007 [[12_Other_Topics]]\n#Week of Apr 23\n**Tue 04/24/2007 Final Project Presentation @@color:red; ''DUE''@@ in class\n#Week of Apr 30 (Final Exams Week)\n\n<<tiddler Sessions>>\n

!Sessions\n# [[01_Introduction]]\n

Spring 2007,\n[[Georgia Tech|http://www.gatech.edu/]] ([[CoC|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/]] | [[GVU|http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/]], [[CPL|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cpl]], [[DVFX|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/dvfx]])

Computational Journalism: CS 4803CJ/8903CJ

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Syllabus [[Link|http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfk28z2g_16cfrsh9]]. *Be Advised* The schedule listed on the syllabus including readings for each week will be updated over the course of the semester. Please check back to see the latest changes.

Welcome to Computational Journalism Spring 2007 (CS 4803cj/8803cj) class. \n\n\nQuick Links: <<tag Sessions>> <<tag Deliverables>> <<tag Announcements>> <<BLOG>> <<COWEB>>

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