News site comments can be toxic. Yet, properly managed, they can be a tool for building media literacy, civic literacy and, ultimately, a news organization's audience.
Establishing your voice in the digital age. Some thoughts on how to write a good journalistic blog and on blogging's enduring value in the era of social media.
Wikipedia, the encylopedia that anyone can edit, “can never work in theory, only in practice.” Accounting for one in every 200 page views on the Internet, it has become a part of our everyday lives. Wikipedia is changing the way we think about the economics of the web, the potential and the pitfalls of engaging the masses, and the role of professional information architects in a world in which content arrives from literally every direction.
In this session, we’ll explore the nuts-and-bolts of how the Wikipedia project works. Who writes Wikipedia, and why? How does the English Wikipedia maintain quality, consistent tagging, and coherent organization across over two million articles? What happens when contributors disagree? We will take a tour behind the scenes at Wikipedia to learn what happens when users are encouraged to - as they say on Wikipedia… “be bold.”
A half hour talk for around 80 National Honor students on using Wikipedia effectively for academia. An updated version of this Powerpoint has been uploaded on 5/13/08 at 12.20pm. You can also view the video of this talk at http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=2192
Establishing your voice in the digital age. Some thoughts on how to write a good journalistic blog and on blogging's enduring value in the era of social media.
Wikipedia, the encylopedia that anyone can edit, “can never work in theory, only in practice.” Accounting for one in every 200 page views on the Internet, it has become a part of our everyday lives. Wikipedia is changing the way we think about the economics of the web, the potential and the pitfalls of engaging the masses, and the role of professional information architects in a world in which content arrives from literally every direction.
In this session, we’ll explore the nuts-and-bolts of how the Wikipedia project works. Who writes Wikipedia, and why? How does the English Wikipedia maintain quality, consistent tagging, and coherent organization across over two million articles? What happens when contributors disagree? We will take a tour behind the scenes at Wikipedia to learn what happens when users are encouraged to - as they say on Wikipedia… “be bold.”
A half hour talk for around 80 National Honor students on using Wikipedia effectively for academia. An updated version of this Powerpoint has been uploaded on 5/13/08 at 12.20pm. You can also view the video of this talk at http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=2192
These are the slides for my presentation at WebContent 2010, Building and Running an Online Community.
The presentation is about a a few of the practical issues you'll run across when thinking about an online community, such as:
* When should you open your site to members
* How to set and enforce community guidelines
* What sort of features to build
These are slides for a presentation on community engagement for the America East conference in Hershey, Pa. They go with this blog post: http://wp.me/poqp6-1ow
These are slides for a workshop for The Gazette in Montreal on using social media and other engagement tools and techniques in reporting. For links relating to this workshop, check my blog: http://wp.me/poqp6-1Yd
Wikipedia’s Quality - Presentation at NIH - July 2009John Broughton
Slides of the presentation by John Broughton on July 16, at the Wikipedia Academy at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. The Academy was jointly sponsored by the NIH and the Wikipedia Foundation.
Walter Lippmann, John Dewey and the role of journalism and the public in a democracy. Based on a discussion in Jay Rosen's book "What Are Journalists For?"
These are the slides for my presentation at WebContent 2010, Building and Running an Online Community.
The presentation is about a a few of the practical issues you'll run across when thinking about an online community, such as:
* When should you open your site to members
* How to set and enforce community guidelines
* What sort of features to build
These are slides for a presentation on community engagement for the America East conference in Hershey, Pa. They go with this blog post: http://wp.me/poqp6-1ow
These are slides for a workshop for The Gazette in Montreal on using social media and other engagement tools and techniques in reporting. For links relating to this workshop, check my blog: http://wp.me/poqp6-1Yd
Wikipedia’s Quality - Presentation at NIH - July 2009John Broughton
Slides of the presentation by John Broughton on July 16, at the Wikipedia Academy at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. The Academy was jointly sponsored by the NIH and the Wikipedia Foundation.
Walter Lippmann, John Dewey and the role of journalism and the public in a democracy. Based on a discussion in Jay Rosen's book "What Are Journalists For?"
News site comments have become a cesspool of hate and ignorance. Should we blame the commenters — or find more effective ways of engaging with our communities?
Slides that accompanied Dan Kennedy's talk at "Getting Started with Social Media: Lessons from the Front Lines," a panel discussion presented by the Mass Technology Leadership Council on Jan. 22, 2009.
Lecture by Mark Hillary at USP in São Paulo on May 15 2013 on press freedom for the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day event hosted at USP by the British Embassy - a GREAT Campaign event
Lecture slides for talk to the Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System on Nov. 12, 2009. Updated for Reinventing the News students in January 2011.
Delighting Residents with Proactive, Thoughtful, and Timely Communications wi...Joseph Porcelli
On September 6, 2018, I gave a keynote address at the annual conference for the City-County Communications & Marketing Association. These are my slides.
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
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‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
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1. Building the news community
Media literacy, civic engagement
and journalism as a conversation
2. The limits of media literacy
• How would you define
it?
3. The limits of media literacy
• Understanding how to
separate reliable from
unreliable information
4. The limits of media literacy
• Understanding how to
separate reliable from
unreliable information
• Understanding the
difference between
important and trivial
5. The limits of media literacy
• Understanding how to
separate reliable from
unreliable information
• Understanding the
difference between
important and trivial
• Understanding the
difference between
fact and opinion
6. The limits of media literacy
• But what is the larger
context? How can we
convince our audience
that these skills matter?
9. Civic literacy supplies the context
• Understanding the
importance of local
issues
• Understanding the
importance of national
and world issues
10. Civic literacy supplies the context
• Understanding the
importance of local
issues
• Understanding the
importance of national
and world issues
• Understanding how
local and global issues
are interrelated
11. Civic literacy supplies the context
• When people show an
interest in civic life, they
engage with the news
12. The role of the “former audience”
• In New Haven, Batavia
and elsewhere, inviting
readers to the table
13. The role of the “former audience”
• In New Haven, Batavia
and elsewhere, inviting
readers to the table
• Professional journalism
and reader comments
working together
14. The role of the “former audience”
• In New Haven, Batavia
and elsewhere, inviting
readers to the table
• Professional journalism
and reader comments
working together
• If you don’t tend the
garden, the weeds will
soon sprout up
15. The price of free speech
• The Register put comments up automatically and
depended on the crowd to report offensive ones
16. The price of free speech
• The Register put comments up automatically and
depended on the crowd to report offensive ones
– “these shootings save the taxpayers millions … not only in
welfare costs but in section 8, food stamps, health care. it
is time to consider sterilization …”
17. The price of free speech
• The Register put comments up automatically and
depended on the crowd to report offensive ones
• African-Americans felt alienated from the Register
and cited racist comments as a prime reason
18. The price of free speech
• The Register put comments up automatically and
depended on the crowd to report offensive ones
• African-Americans felt alienated from the Register
and cited racist comments as a prime reason
• A new editor, Matt DeRienzo, ordered that all
comments be screened before being posted
19. A better approach
• Paul Bass’ warning to his audience: “Yes we do
censor reader comments. We’ll continue to.”
20. A better approach
• Paul Bass’ warning to his audience: “Yes we do
censor reader comments. We’ll continue to.”
• Anonymity is allowed, but racist, sexist and
personally insulting comments are not posted
21. A better approach
• Paul Bass’ warning to his audience: “Yes we do
censor reader comments. We’ll continue to.”
• Anonymity is allowed, but racist, sexist and
personally insulting comments are not posted
• A civil conversation that often adds to the story and
that fosters civic engagement — a virtuous circle
23. Crowdsourced reporting
• Residents post on
SeeClickFix to complain
about an ugly building
• The Independent
sees complaints
and covers the story
24. Crowdsourced reporting
• Residents post on
SeeClickFix to complain
about an ugly building
• The Independent
sees complaints
and covers the story
• Another 24 comments
are posted at the
Independent
26. Why journalism matters
• New Haven man
seriously injured
in possible assault
• Reddit poster falsely
claims it was “justice
for Treyvon” [sic]
27. Why journalism matters
• New Haven man
seriously injured
in possible assault
• Reddit poster falsely
claims it was “justice
for Treyvon” [sic]
• Similar to Reddit rumors
about marathon
bombing suspect
28. The Indy’s moment of crisis
• Nasty mayoral
campaign and its
aftermath broke system
29. The Indy’s moment of crisis
• Nasty mayoral
campaign and its
aftermath broke system
• A crude comment about
Mayor DeStefano (right)
was accidentally posted
30. The Indy’s moment of crisis
• Nasty mayoral
campaign and its
aftermath broke system
• A crude comment about
Mayor DeStefano (right)
was accidentally posted
• Comments were shut
down, later reopened
with new rules
31. Anonymity versus real names
• Howard Owens requires registration and real names
at his community news site in western New York
32. Anonymity versus real names
• Howard Owens requires registration and real names
at his community news site in western New York
• “It starts with basic news ethics: Readers have a right
to know who is saying what.”
33. Anonymity versus real names
• Howard Owens requires registration and real names
at his community news site in western New York
• “It starts with basic news ethics: Readers have a right
to know who is saying what.”
• But Paul Bass believes he would lose police officers,
teachers and other community stakeholders
34. Dan Gillmor
“If I could design a
comment system, I would
put all anonymous
comments at the thread’s
end, and give the site
owner an easy way to
move good comments
higher. I’d also give users a
way to make anonymous
comments invisible.”
35. danah boyd
“The people who most
heavily rely on
pseudonyms in online
spaces are those who are
most marginalized by
systems of power. ‘Real
names’ policies aren’t
empowering; they’re an
authoritarian assertion of
power over vulnerable
people.”
36. What would you do?
Would you allow
anonymous comments or
require real names?
37. Comments are so 2005
• Facebook fosters civil
dialogue in a familiar,
real-names space
38. Comments are so 2005
• Facebook fosters civil
dialogue in a familiar,
real-names space
• Twitter allows reporters
to promote work and
engage with users
39. Comments are so 2005
• Facebook fosters civil
dialogue in a familiar,
real-names space
• Twitter allows reporters
to promote work and
engage with users
• Have traditional news-
site comments outlived
their usefulness?
40. 2016 update
• Many news sites are
killing comments and
moving to social media
41. 2016 update
• Many news sites are
killing comments and
moving to social media
• Coral Project seeks to
improve community
through technology
42. 2016 update
• Many news sites are
killing comments and
moving to social media
• Coral Project seeks to
improve community
through technology
• A lesson of recent
elections is we need
new ways of engaging
43. Permissions
• (cc) 2013 by Dan Kennedy. You are free to use
this presentation under the terms of the
Creative Commons
Attribution/Noncommercial/Share Alike 3.0
license, which is online at http://bit.ly/2oyXPN
• If I have used your copyrighted work
inadvertently, please contact me at
dan.kennedy@northeastern.edu
44. Dan Kennedy
School of Journalism
College of Arts, Media and Design
Northeastern University
Boston
2013 and 2016