Mass3101 Magazine

Mass3101 Magazine Fall2019

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Class Activities

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Khalid Al Durai In this class we learn about crowdsourcing news, feature and investigative stories.

In addition, we know how to use the crowdsourcing.

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Al Mukhtar Al Rahbi Today we learned more about investigative journalism, one of the most important and famous examples is the Panama Papers.

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Qussai Al Rahbi Some of the many tools that have changed the face of communicating news today, and how they’ve changed the face of that information resource. like: Sight and Sound, media tools, Connectivity, Research.

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Mohammed Al Azwani On this day we worked in groups to develop the idea of the story 'talking to communities and listening to their points', from that, we can develop our visual film + text over + statistics + infographic in the material we produce.

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Assad Al Yaqoubi Dr Sonia evaluating the first draft of course project and giving notes on points that have to be considered in the next and final draft.

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Ahmed Al Risi From the Immersive Journalism The ONAOnline News Association's Conference: New tools, techniques and technologies, to discuss advancements and challenges in the industry.

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Salim Zabanoot During the lecture we discussed some of amendments to the third draft, namely to divide the official newspaper in one part of the project and the non- officials newspaper or magazines in another part of the project on addition to that the interview and the good practice and bad practice in other part of the projects .

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Ahmed Al Ghassani After the presentation of a group of students for academic readings now students who offered to write some questions and answers through what they submitted.

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Salim Al Wahaibi Open sources and journalism, that our presentation that relation between journalism and technology. The challenges now a days that how can used open sources and restriction for it.

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Amna Al Mazrouai Our presentation on The Politicization of“Fake News” on Twitter We have divided the content into two main points: 1. History of “Fake News” 2. Social Media and the emergence of “Fake News”: We also add the Method, Content analysis, Results, Discussion, Conclusion. but unfortunately, we miss too but the outcome.

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Hameid Al Hanai We talked about the structure of online news as well as emotional grace and its impact on processing time as well as memory. We talked about the structure of the news in two forms, namely the structure of the inverted pyramid and the structure of the narrative and what are the advantages of each. And then we talked about emotional tone and how important it is in the news structure. The end of the presentation We talked about the most important points of reading this article.

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Academic Reading

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Open source and journalism toward NEW FRAMEWORKS FOR IMAGINING news innovation

Published by : SAGE, Seth C lewis and Nikki Usher U113182 / 116915

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Open source.  Open source & journalism. Open source software programming. Advantages Takeaway

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Introduction • Open source and journalism is information that available for journalists in internet and program.

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What are hackers?

What are hacks?

Hacks

journalists

Hackers

technologists or computationally skilled actors (i.e. programmers, developers, coders, or technologists), who have ethos (attitudes) (Coleman, 2012). .

journalists and technologists

Hacker’s ethic

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hacks and hackers ethic is marked both by experimentation and play as well as a pro-social interest in information liberation and democratic ideals, (Coleman, 2012)

open source in journalism increasingly organize and collaborate

find technological solutions for news on an international scale ,

open source software programming which is called computational journalism, (Flew et al., 2012

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open source software programming All software with available source code, adaptable by all, under the limitation that the adaptations should be made available to others’ (Wynants and Cornelis, 2005). open source and hackers have drawn strong interest—and have begun to play important roles in creating interactive and data-driven content and infrastructure.

(Usher, 2010) Examples of using open sources

Al Jazeera English in Qatar,

The Guardian and the BBC in the U.K Zeit Online in Germany, 20

the New York Times, NPR, and smaller metropolitan newspapers in the U.S

JOURNALISM AND TECHNOLOGY

History

There is a long history of journalists working with digital technology often with the primary goal of improving the news story known as Computer-Assisted Reporting

Examples of

CAR

CAR

in 1952, CBS (computer based system) was used to predict the outcome of the U.S. presidential race between Eisenhower and Stevenson Reavy (1996) also points to innovators such as Philip Meyer, who in 1967 used an IBM 360 mainframe to analyze survey data about the Detroit riots In 1973, Meyer wrote Precision Journalism, advocating for the greater integration of computers, data, and social science methods in journalism practice in 1989

the most visible moment for computational journalism

Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter Bill Dedman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning report on unequal housing practices and red-lining.

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Separation from

CAR

 Today, the programmer-journalist differs from this CAR reporter in seeing the end product not as a story as a ‘productive artifact’ of ‘information filtering’ (Jonathan Stray, 2011).

 Scholars write about journalism as needing an upgrade to the digital age through computer programming  computational journalism will both lead to better investigative journalism and create new forms of engagement with audiences, , Flew et al. (2012)

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Advantages of open sources.

 Easy to reach without restrictions.  Inclusiveness  sharing relevant information with a non-definite set of other actors without any immediate recompense (Balka 2009) and (. Benkler, 2006

 Reach to facts.  Encourages users to make their own contributions to the code, and potentially facilitates greater speed and efficiency.

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open-source culture 1. TRANSPARENCY

• digital journalism has enhanced opportunities for such transparency (Phillips, 2010). open-source transparency can push journalism.

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2. TINKERING • journalists could begin rethinking how to play with their existing products (e.g. blogs and social media) and recharge them

3. iteration . Continuously releasing unfinished code for beta-testing

4. participation .Encouraging input from the widest possible group collaborators.

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Conclusion

journalists and technologists

 The collaboration between journalists and technologists are not new  Collaboration can improve the infrastructure of journalism

 Open source offers the opportunity for technologists and journalists. (news room).

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Outcome The challenge's that faced the journalists that how they use the information which can affect for privacy and law. In addition the open source has a negative side that the information that a lot of misleaded information that journalists have to interact with that information cautiously.

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Academic Reading

The Politicization of “Fake News” on Twitter

Done by: (u111191) ,(s118437) Date: November 20, 2019 Mass3101- Journalism Technology

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Academic Reading : The title:

Authors:

The Politicization of “Fake News” on Twitter

John Brummette, Marcia DiStaso, Michail

Vafeiadis, and Marcus Messner.

Date:

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 2018, Vol. 95(2) 497 –517

Reprints and permissions:

sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1077699018769906 http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jmq

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Introduction:

# Since the 2008 U.S presidential campaign, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have become critical battlegrounds for political parties. # Dissemination of online “fake news� has reached heightened levels during and after the 2016 U.S.

# Fake news was published by political candidates and pundits have made.

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The main point: 1

1. History of “Fake News”

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using misinformation to shape public opinion.

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The connection between “fake news” and politics has been evident throughout history especially with the use of political propaganda by the British and the Americans in World War.

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2. Social Media and the emergence of “Fake News”:

The ease with which people can now mass communicate and the inability to detect bias in the media environment.

The issue of “fake news” is exacerbated by

the ever-increasing popularity of social media.

And the increasing popularity of social media began in London terror attack in March 2017.

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Method:

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# This study used SNA, content analysis, and cluster analysis.

# SNA allowed the researchers in this study to identify network users according to their use of the term “fake news� and then to calculate metrics that indicated the strength and nature of their connections with other users.

** SNA: System National Accounts

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Content analysis • Extracting the information of the two clustering: • (a) The individual tweets in the samples.

• (b) The Twitter bios of the users who posted the tweets.

• The Twitter bios of the users were analyzed and coded for the variables of:

• 1.Types of social media users: (Presidents, politicians, journalists, or other).

• 2. User’s political affiliation: (Democrat, Republican, Independent).

• 3. Gender: (male, female, organization).

• Next, a two-step cluster analysis: which identifies structures or clusters .

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Results:

• Politics do, in fact play a role in the discussion of “fake news” among social media users.

• The search for the most frequently communicated information in the tweets examined in the study revealed a mix of different words and hashtags that were employed in the discussions.

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Discussion:

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• Findings from this study reveal that conversations about “fake news” take place in large clusters.

• (Online communities) who dominate the discussion.

• The cluster analysis revealed “fake news” is a politicized term.

• “Fake news” has been used for years as an attempt to hinder the free flow of

information.

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Conclusion

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• “Fake news,” have implications for society.

• Society is at risk of overshadowing the importance and understanding of the “fake news”.

• This study highlights this problem.

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Outcome

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Take away from the study: 1- “fake news” uses between large clusters comprised primarily of members of the general public.

2- “fake news” is a politicized term.

3- “fake news” has been used as an attempt to hinder the free flow of information.

4- “fake news,” have implications for society (society is at risk of overshadowing the importance and understanding).

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