Access to News Media: Production, Search, Retrieval and Distribution
| Project Leader | Project Co-leader |
| Jacquelyn Burkell University of Western Ontario |
Charles Clarke University of Waterloo |
How does an always-connected, media literate, prosumer society inform itself? The Internet and other information and communication technologies transform the way news is gathered, presented, distributed and archived. Search and retrieval over news sources is characterized by unique challenges. The inclusion of blogs, tweets and other social media only compounds this problem by their sometimes unreliable or highly subjective content.
Specific initiatives include: understanding human news behavior, data mining for fact checking and credibility assessment, news search and retrieval by genre and source at different points in the timeline of an event, virality and social networking of the news, and mobile journalism.
NEWS will explore the future of news seeking behavior, news retrieval, news mining and the interplay of social media and institutional media outlets in global news flows.