Photojournalism: Journalistic Reality and Necessity

Social and Journalistic Changes

Monitoring and Predicting Journalistic Profiles

The paper develops a pilot study aiming at finding a methodology for identifying features of journalistic writing profiles. The study is based on capturing dominant discursive tonalities, knowing that journalistic discourse entails public legitimacy. We made use of a series of natural language processing tools as preliminary steps in revealing three egocentric journalistic identities. Based on ...

Recommendation Systems that Establish New Forms of Representational Reality through Journalistic Content

The abstract aims to connect various fields of knowledge, including journalism, information sciences, and human cognition. It analyzes Recommendation Systems (RS) on the Web in order to understand how they are changing user-experiences and, consequently, affecting the fundamental structures of journalism. Today’s networks are decentralized with few barriers to entry. They provide new ways of co...

Situated Citizen Photojournalism and a Look at Dilemmatic Thinking

We present an approach to investigating the development of “dilemmatic thinking” in individuals and communities. To study this style of thinking we use a framework called Situated Citizen Journalism (SCJ) in which non-specialists (“citizens”) work with professional photojournalists and learning technologists to create and critique images. The participants form a “community of journalistic pract...

Sustained, Open Dialogue with Citizen Photojournalism

We describe an approach to supporting sustained and open public dialogue called Citizen Journalism. In this model, non-specialist citizens, technology designers and professional journalists collaborate to design new technologies, learning relationships and broadcast channels for individual and community expression. We present the results of two workshops in which young adults, learning technolo...