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 […]
Social media has become an important source for news stories; the combination of 24hrs communication, direct access to sources and the ever-present risk of a gaffe or mistake makes it a great asset for the clued-in newsroom. But the growth in sources and channels, not to mention the prevalence of Photoshop and its like, means […]
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, […]
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 […]
As 2013 drew to a close, Hacks/Hackers Dublin held a pre-holiday meetup at the Irish Times building. This was the second meetup for the group, which was established in the summer of 2013, and it drew over 40 members to a team-building workshop facilitated by Justin Ferrell, journalist and Fellowships Director of Stanford University’s innovative […]
The National University of Ireland, Galway, is seeking two outstanding candidates for Research Assistant positions in the Social Web and Semantic Web / Linked Data domain. The successful candidates will work within the Digital Humanities and Journalism group at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway (formerly known as DERI), and will also […]
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 […]
At the Summit 2013 HuJo caught up with some of the business leaders and entrepreneurs trying to transform the media industry. Click the links below to listen to our reporter Fergal Gallagher quizzing them on the future of news. Interview with Jimmy Maymann CEO of Huffington Post Jimmy Maymann is a Danish entrepreneur who founded […]