Digital Humanities and Journalism
After collecting and analysing data from hundreds of professional journalists working in Ireland, HuJo is releasing a comprehensive report on Irish Journalists’ use of Social Media. This is the first survey of such undertaken in Ireland and is being launch on the 7th January 2015 at the “Citizen Journalism and Social Media Archiving” minitrack of the […]
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for two Research Assistant positions in social media mining in social semantic journalism realm. The successful candidates will work within the Digital Humanities and Journalism group at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics @NUIG (formerly know as DERI), on a project on ‘a socially aware multimedia enrichment solution for […]
Last September Fergal Gallagher was able to interview Andy Carvin just before he gave his talk at the Truth in News Symposium held at Dublin City University. We have transcribed the audio from his interview and the original recording is available at the bottom of this page. Fergal Gallagher: I am here with Andy Carvin, Senior Strategist and […]
A team from the Digital Humanities and Journalism group at Insight @NUIG won the ‘Connecting the News’ category prize at the BBC NewsHack on May 1st-2nd. The team developed Hash2News, a Chrome Extension which enables users to find the news stories behind Twitter hashtags. The #newsHack is an initiative of the BBC NewsLabs innovation programme, and […]
We, in collaboration with the Digital Repository of Ireland, are organising a minitrack on Citizen Journalism and Social Media Archiving as part of Digital and Social Media track of HICSS 48. Call for papers: HICSS Citizen Journalism and Social Media Archiving minitrack http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS_48/Tracks/DSM/DSMCitizen.pdf Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 48 January 5-8, 2015, Grand Hyatt, Kauai, […]
Twitter is a great source of information as well as a fantastic communication tool on specific event. In our – academic – world conferences are one of the most commonly occurring events, where a significant degree of communication between participants now happen on Twitter. Last week Dublin was hosting the Research Data Alliance Plenary 3 […]
ONE HUNDRED hours of video is now uploaded every minute. Soon there will be more user generated content than professionally produced media. But what does this mean for the media industry? Storyful’s Mark Little joined a panel of expert social media journalists met at an event at AP offices in New York on Tuesday evening […]
The Digital Humanities and Journalism group at the Insight National Centre for Data Analytics @NUI Galway (formerly know as DERI) is seeking outstanding candidates for two full-time fixed term Research Assistant positions in trust and provenance in Social Semantic Web and journalism realm. This position is funded by Science Foundation Ireland and is available from 1st February 2014 to contract end […]
The Digital Humanities and Journalism group at the INSIGHT National Centre for Data Analytics @NUI Galway is seeking an outstanding candidate for a Research Assistant position in the Social Semantic Journalism realm. The successful candidates will work on a project in collaboration with the Irish national broadcaster, RTÉ, on ‘social news detection and contextualisation’. The project is jointly funded by RTÉ and the […]
When it comes to using social media, there are three main categories of journalist suggests a recent paper published in the journal Digital Journalism. These categories provide insight into why journalists use tools like Facebook and Twitter and why social media may be creating a new professional digital divide between users and non-users. There are the […]