Computational Journalism: CS 4803CJ/8903CJ

FinalReport

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:25:28 GMT

We want a short concise description of

what you did?
why?
how well it worked?
why it did not? and
what else would you have tried?

Also, please provide documentation (including sources as appropriate) of your project.

Please 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.

Contributions

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:10:20 GMT

Information

Here 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.

(A) Permissions:

I, <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.

I, <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.

Name:
PERMENANT Address:
PERMENANT EMAIL ADDRESS:

(B) Final Project Contributions:

Name:
Group #:
Group NAME:
Group Member's NAMES:
<....>
<....>
<....>

What my ROLE was in the group?
<ANSWER HERE>

Did I meet this required GOAL?
<ANSWER HERE>

If NOT, what I did instead?
<ANSWER HERE>

What was the role of my GROUPMATEs?
<NAME - ROLE>
<NAME - ROLE>
<NAME - ROLE>

Did they meet their required ROLE? If not what did they do?

Did someone not on the team help? What did they do?

Who was the leader? (a leader is NOT necessary for this, but sometime
someone takes that role)

Was the leader effective?

Were you involved with all aspects of the project and know about everything that went into the production?

What was the hardest part of your project? your group's project?

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your performance for the final project?

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your team-mate's performance for the final project?
LastName1: <SCORE>
LastName2: <SCORE>
LastName3: <SCORE>

If given a chance, will you choose to work with your partners again?
Explain both YES and NO.

(C) Contributions within OTHER projects/assignments

Assignment 1:

Name your Partners:
Rate your Performance (0-10):
Rate your Patner's Performances (0-10)

Assignment 3:

Name your Partners:
Rate your Performance (0-10):
Rate your Patner's Performances (0-10)

Assignment 4:

Name your Partners:
Rate your Performance (0-10):
Rate your Patner's Performances (0-10)

(D) Mailing List

The 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.

(E) Comments:

Any thoughts about the class. Answer to this has NO effect on your grade. I really value input from students.

(F) Research:

I 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.

MainMenu

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:57:58 GMT

Welcome
Overview
Syllabus
Schedule
Bibliography
Assignments
Projects
Guest Speakers
Recent Changes
Blog
CoWeb

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12_Other_Topics

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:13:00 GMT

Class Plan:

Project Updates
Readings (Anandi and Ranjith)
Guest Speaker Ian Bogost will talk about NewsGaming
Other topics to discuss: Information Accessibility and Literacy, Globalization / Translation, Media Monitoring, Internet Zoning, Legal Issues (copyright, libel, slander),

Schedule

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:31:00 GMT

Day Schedule/Time

Class weekly timing are:

Mondays	Tuesdays	Wednesdays	Thursdays	Fridays
	3:05p - 5:55p

First Class Meets in Instr Center 119, but will move to TSRB 233 from the following week.

Weekly Schedule ( = done!)

Week of Jan 8

Tue 01/09/2007 01_Introduction, 01_Assignment OUT

Week of Jan 15

Tue 01/16/2007 02_NewsGatheringandMobileComputing

Week of Jan 22 (Irfan Away)

Tue 01/23/2007 03_Journalism_and_Reporting_Theory

Week of Jan 29

Tue 01/30/2007 01_Assignment Due before class, 02_Assignment OUT, 04_The_Practice_of_Reporting

Week of Feb 5

Tue 02/06/2007 05_AutomatedReporting_and_Programming_in_Journalism

Week of Feb 12

Tue 02/13/2007 02_Assignment Due before class, 03_Assignment OUT, 06_Analysis_of_News_Archives

Week of Feb 19

Tue 02/20/2007 07_Visual_Design_and_Visualization_of_News

Week of Feb 26

Tue 02/27/2007 08_News_Aggregation

Week of Mar 5

Tue 03/06/2007 09_Summarization_Personalization

Week of Mar 12

Tue 03/13/2007 Critique Due for class

Week of Mar 19

Tue 03/20/2007 Spring Break!!!

Week of Mar 26

Tue 03/27/2007 Editing, Credibility, Authority

Week of Apr 2

Tue 04/03/2007 Image and Video Manipulation and Forensics

Week of Apr 9

Tue 04/10/2007 11_News_Consumption_and_Distribution

Week of Apr 16

Tue 04/17/2007 12_Other_Topics

Week of Apr 23

Tue 04/24/2007 Final Project Presentation DUE in class

Week of Apr 30 (Final Exams Week)

Sessions

01_Introduction

11_News_Consumption_and_Distribution

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:39:00 GMT

Class Plan

Final Project Updates
Overview of consumption and distribution
Discussion of your news diet and consumption habits
Readings (Kirti and Sheila)

Projects

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:06:00 GMT

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.).

Some high level ideas for the final project are here.

09_Summarization_Personalization

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:36:00 GMT

Class Plan

Final Project Ideas
Discuss Asgn 3
Summarization + Personalization
Readings: Puja and Shiva

Assignments

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:15:00 GMT

01_Assignment Multimedia News Gathering and Reporting. Link. Assigned: 1/8/2007 Due: 1/30/2007
02_Assignment Information Diffusion in the Blogsphere. Link Assigned 1/30/2007 Due: 2/13/2007
03_Assignment Programming in Reporting. Link Assigned 2/13/2007 Due: 3/2/2007
04_Assignment News Aggregator Critique. Link Assigned 2/27/2007 Due: 3/13/2007

04_The_Practice_of_Reporting

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:16:00 GMT

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

05_AutomatedReporting_and_Programming_in_Journalism

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:16:00 GMT

Guests: Colin Potts (documentary photography)
Assignment 1 Critique and Discussion
Automated Reporting

Thomson Financial News Link
Vox Populi Link
Automated Newscast NewsAtSeven Link

Programming in Journalism

Investigative programming
Consumer programming
Mashups & webservices examples

Slides PPT

03_Journalism_and_Reporting_Theory

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:16:00 GMT

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

06_Analysis_of_News_Archives

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:15:00 GMT

For class:

Assignment 1 Critique and Discussion
Continuation of last week's topics
Analysis of news Archives

Text Analysis: classification, sentiment analysis
Video/Audio Analysis
Applications and Discussion

Slides PPT

07_Visual_Design_and_Visualization_of_News

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:15:00 GMT

Guest Speaker: John Stasko

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

08_News_Aggregation

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:15:00 GMT

Guest: Andrea Forte

Class Plan

Finish up going over examples of news visualizations
Discussion of Assignment 2 and relation to aggregation
Andrea Forte on Wikis and collaborative news production
Ellie on Infotopia
Critiques of News Aggregators

Guest Speakers

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:14:00 GMT

1/16/2007: Digital News Gathering at CNN

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.
Terence Burke, CNN

1/23/2007:
1/30/2007: Colin Potts on Photo Documentaries
2/202007: John Stasko on Info Visualization, applied to NEWS. (see his class on Info Viz and its resources)
2/27/2007: Andrea Forte on Collaborative Authoring and Wikis.

03_Assignment

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:08:00 GMT

Assignment 3. In Pairs. Due 3/2/07 by 6:00pm

Programming in Reporting. Link

02_Assignment

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:07:00 GMT

Assignment 2. Information Diffusion in the Blogsphere. Link

01_Assignment

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:43:00 GMT

Assignment 1. Multimedia News Gathering and Reporting. Link

02_NewsGatheringandMobileComputing

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:18:00 GMT

Assignment 1 partners
Discussion of Mobile News Gathering

A Comic Strip to set the stage: Link
News Sources
Individual vs Networked Sensors
People vs gadget sensors
Mobile gathering: access, reactivity, portability, miniturization

Some sites of interest

Bluffton Today. community centered news gathering combining citizen + traditional, online and off Link
Scoopt (an online marketplace for newsworthy "citizen" photos) Link
CNN Exchange Link
Yahoo/Reuters: You Witness News Link
Examples of the types of events people are capturing Link
List of Citizen Media Initiatives http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/002226.php

Visit from CNN/Turner Folks (Paul Ferguson / Terence Burke)