The accelerated news cycle and constantly emerging news-worthy events have led to ‘citizen journalism’ where people who are non-journalists collect, analyze and disseminate news pieces. This paper seeks to leverage tags drawn from iReport, an active citizen journalism Website to detect major news events. The goal is to examine the coverage and efficacy of news detected in iReport vis-à-vis thos...

This article examines how war journalism has shaped knowledge production on media coverage of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, and how its discontent underscores the need for a shift to peace correspondence in the conflict. The article essentially relies on existing empirical literature on media coverage of the conflict, dating from early 1960s. Evidences from other conflict environments where ...

This paper describes Structured Stories, a platform for producing and consuming journalism as structured narratives based on instantiations of event frames. The event frames are defined using FrameNet and are instantiated as structured events using references to nodes in various knowledge graphs. Structured narratives with recursive, fractal and network characteristics are then assembled from t...

Introduction: Media Ecology Investigation, whether in journalism, science, or law, seeks to reveal in a systematic way the responsible agent(s) for a current situation. "Western" style journalism is the child of a culture that believes in reason, individual freedom, and therefore responsibility.1 These cultural presuppositions tend to reject anonymous forces like history, curses, or "god(s)" as...

Since the mid-2000s, some US and British news organizations have hired programmers to design data-driven news projects within the newsroom. But how does the rise of these “programmer-journalists,” armed with their skills and technical artifacts, really affect the way journalism can contribute to the public good? Based on an empirical study in Chicago, we show in this article that although they ...

Epistemic games are one approach to creating educational games that give players skills that transfer beyond the game world by helping young people become fluent in valuable social practices. Epistemic games are immersive, technology-enhanced, role-playing games where players learn to become—and thus to think like—doctors, lawyers, engineers, architects, and other members of important practices...