Posts in 2017
Digital Transparency and Accountability

Tradition is not a safe haven in late modernity, in general and in the press in particular. There is a need for justification and updated legitimation of journalistic practice. In the age of digital journalism, accountability and transparency have been radicalized, and as journalism faces new challenges and undergoes severe reorientations, questions of accountability and transparency are essential. The basic idea that journalism must hold those in power accountable has been well established, but it is similarly imperative that journalism itself is held accountable by an informed citizenry. The thriving industry of digital transparency and accountability instruments bear witness to how serious the situation appears for agents in the journalistic field.

Eide, Martin. 2017. “Digital Transparency and Accountability” in Franklin, Bob and Scott Eldridge || (eds) The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies: 253-262. Routledge.

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The Changing Ecology of Tools for Live News Reporting

Journal article by Frode Guribye iand Lars Nyre. This study explores new video tools for television news, and the tinkering that reporting teams need to do to adapt to such tools.They conduct interviews with six journalists and photographers at Norwegian broadcaster TV 2 to explore live news reporting.

Guribye, Frode and Lars Nyre. 2017. “The Changing Ecology of Tools for Live News Reporting”. Journalism Practice 11 (10): 1216-1230. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2016.1259011

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Nordic Review 38 (Special Issue 2) 2017

Astrid Gynnild, Maria Nilsson, Anne Hege Simonsen and Hanna Weselius have edited this issue, and contributed with studies about "Photojournalism and Editorial Processes: Global Similarities, Local Differences".

Gynnild, Astrid., Maria Nilsson, Anne Hege Simonsen and Hanna Weselius. 2017. “Introduction: Photojournalism and Editorial Processes. Global Similarities, Local Differences” in Nordicom Review 38, Special Issue 2: 1-5. DOI: 10.1515/nor-2017-0410.

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Realistic face manipulation by morphing with average faces

One could create realistic, anonymized faces as an aesthetic alternative to the coarse techniques of blurring or pixelation normally used today. In this proceeding, the authors describe how we can use algorithms for face manipulation from computer vision to anonymize faces in journalism.

Midtun, Joar, Bjørnar Tessem, Simen Skaret Karlsen and Lars Nyre. 2017. “Realistic Face Manipulation by Morphing With Average Faces” NIKT: Norsk IKT-konferanse for forskning og utdanning. Available at: https://ojs.bibsys.no/index.php/NIK/article/view/426

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Migration Maps in the News Media: Cross-Cultural Contrasts in Cartographic Surveillance

Cartography is one of the oldest forms of media. With cartography and media, meaning, ideology, and power are habitually arbitrated across and through space and time. Media has an underlying mapping impulse – a proclivity to comprehend itself and be rendered comprehensible through metaphors of topologies, networks, and flows that lead to the constant evacuation of spaces in order to produce places of communication. In this book ViSmedia associate Paul Adams has written the first chapter were he share his research on Media’s Mapping Impulse.

Adams, Paul. 2020. “Migration Maps with the News”. Journalism Studies 19 (4): 527-547. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2017.1375387

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Keeping Reporters Safe: The Ethics of Drone Journalism in a Humanitarian Crisis

Chapter by Turo Uskali and Epp Lauk. Drones have been used for news reporting since 2011. This chapter analyzes several cases of drone journalism in crisis reporting and refers to ethical guidelines for good drone reporting in humanitarian crisis reporting.

Uskali, Turo and Epp Lauk. 2017. “Keeping Reporters Safe: The Ethics of Drone Journalism in Humantarian Crisis”. In Andersen, Robin and Purnaka L. de Silvia (eds) The Routledge Companion To Media and Humanitarian Action. Abingdon, Routledge Handbooks Online. DOI: 10.4324/9781315538129.ch39

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Innovating Virtual Reality Experiences For Journalism: The Design Thinking Approach

Conference paper by Heli Väätäjä, Otto Kauhanen, Turo Uskali, Esa Sirkkunen, Chelsea Kelling, Markku Turunen, Vesa Lindqvist. It presents a history of VR and explores VR storytelling for journalism.

Väätäjä, Heli., Otto Kauhanen, Turo Uskali, Esa Sirkkunen, Chelsea Kelling, Markku Turunen and Vesa Lindqvist. 2017. “Innovating Virtual Reality Experiences For Journalism”. The Design Thinking Approach

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Assisting Immersive Virtual Reality Development With User Experience Design Approach

Conference paper by Otto Kauhanen, Heli Väätäjä, Markku Turunen, Tuuli Keskinen, Esa Sirkkunen, Turo Uskali, Vesa Lindqvist, Chelsea Kelling, Jussi Karhu. The paper explores how to a biography as a VR experience.

Kauhanen, Otto., Heli Väätäjä, Markku Turunen, Tuuli Keskinen, Esa Sirkkunen, Turo Uskali, Vesa Lindqvist, Chelsea Kelling and Jussi Karhu. 2017. “Assisting immersive virtual reality development with user experience design approach” Academic Mindtrek: 127-136. DOI: 10.1145/3131085.3131126.

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Ethical Issues in Big Data

In 2014, a paper with the title “Experimental evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion Through Social Networks” was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Engineering (Kramer, Guillory, and Hancock 2014). The paper reported on research that had been done using 689,003 Facebook users. Seeking to determine whether the emotional content of users’ postings would be affected by the extent of positive or negative newsfeed the users received, the study involved three groups: one group had their newsfeed filtered for negative content; another group had their newsfeed filtered for positive content; and a third group had their newsfeed randomly filtered. Comparing the postings of the three groups, the researchers concluded that “moods are contagious.” Users who saw more positive newsfeed wrote more positive posts and users who saw more negative content wrote more negative posts. The study contradicted a concern and common belief that when users see a lot of positive content from their friends, it makes them depressed.

Johnson, Deborah G. 2018. “Ethical Issues in Big Data”. In: Pitt, Joseph C. and Ashley Shew. Spaces for the Future. A Companion to Philosophy of Technology. New York, Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203735657

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Virtual Reality Prototyping in Journalism: How to Best Collaborate With Agile Methods

In the Virjox projects, journalism scholars, human-computer interaction and computer scientists and media company developers innovate together to figure out how to create the best immersive journalism and other media products. Turo Uskali, Heli Väätäjä and Esa Sirkkunen offer insights into the project.

Uskali, Turo; Esa Sirkkunen and Heli Väätäjä. 2017. “Virtual Reality Prototyping in Journalism: How to Best Collaborate With Agile Methods” Nordicom Information 39 (1): 28-31.

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The Visual Power of News Agencies

The visual power of news agencies are expanding as staff photographers are losing their jobs. In this study, Astrid Gynnild discusses the challenged ethical standards and editorial dillemmas through the example of terrorism.

Gynnild, Astrid. 2017. “The Visual Power of News Agencies” Nordicom Review, 38 Special Edition 2: 25-39. DOI: 10.1515/nor-2017-0412

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Can Engineering ethics be taught?

The question isn’t whether engineers make moral decisions (they do!), but whether and how ethical decision making can be taught. Skepticism about the possibility of teaching ethics takes multiple forms. This article is based on a chapter from Deborah’s book, Engineering Ethics: Contemporary Debates.

Johnson, Deborah G. 2017. “Can Engineering Ethics Be Taught?”. The Bridge 47 (1): 59-64.

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