69 Abstract—Twitter is a microblogging service that allows its user to share short messages called tweets with each other. All the tweets are visible on a public timeline. These tweets have the valuable geospatial component and particularly time critical events. In this paper, our interest is in the rapid detection of disaster events such as tsunami, tornadoes, forest fires, and earthquakes. We...

The development of digital journalism, an important area of storytelling, has focused primarily on incorporating interactive multimedia components to traditional linear news stories. In this paper, we propose a new approach that places central focus on text, the core of journalism, based on insights from fictional interactive digital storytelling. Drawing upon the convention of interactive fict...

1 Elliott School of Communication, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260-0031 2 Department of Communication, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29401 3 College of Journalism and Communication, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 4 School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 5 Mass Communication and Journalism, Fresno State, Fresno, C...

We describe the power and potential of data journalism, where news stories are reported and published with data and dynamic visualizations. We discuss the challenges facing data journalism today and how recent data management tools such as Google Fusion Tables have helped in the newsroom. We then describe some of the challenges that need to be addressed in order for data journalism to reach its...

This paper aims to explore the boundaries between Media Studies on one hand and Translation other hand. It highlights contact areas these two disciplines sheds light findings insights of both fields, thus informing researchers in their quest develop journalism teaching curricula training courses. A foreign desk editor (FDE) needs cross borders forward backward cultures depending translation fro...

The press, as a culturally structured system, contributes to the formation of audience self-images – defining one's domestic identity and hetero images Other. Using journalistic translation journalism studies, this contribution explores national image provided by Italian press in news translated into English Ansa agency website during current COVID-19 pandemic. few studies on translations inclu...

This case study examines how traditional and Internet news use, as well as face-to-face and online political discussion, contributed to political participation during the period leading up to the Iraq War. A Web-based survey of political dissenters (N=307) conducted at the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq provides the data used to examine the relationships among informational media use, o...

Education in journalism emphasizes internships, apprenticeships, and other opportunities to learn journalism by doing journalism; however, most computer-mediated communication tools do not have such a provision. The fully open structure of Wiki matches the principles of learning journalism while, from a technical point of view, Wiki provides a very easy way for users to report, write and edit. ...