Participatory Design at a Radio Station

Kensing, Finn; Simonsen, Jesper; Bødker, Keld

doi:10.1023/a:1008683004336

Cited by 29 publications

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“…Much of the HCI and CSCW research in the context of news reporting has concentrated on the work practices and organizing the editorial work, e.g., [10,13,11]. Mobile pocket-sized devices, like PDAs (personal digital assistants) or mobile phones, have in recent years received increasing attention [8,9,12,16,27,28,29,30,31].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Briefing news reporting with mobile assignments

Väätäjä

Egglestone

2012

Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

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Mobile handheld devices are an increasing part of everyday fieldwork of news professionals. Mobile assignments delivered to mobile journalists' smartphones are one potential future development step. We present findings on using mobile assignments from two exploratory user studies in which smartphones were used as news reporting tools. Mobile assignments were perceived as handy for fast reporting situations and simple stories but challenging in case of more complex tasks. Structured information content of assignments, process phase based information and supporting situation and activity awareness would support the work of both editorial staff and mobile journalists. The locationing of reporters for sending location-based assignments was found acceptable for coordinating the work although some privacy concerns were expressed. The findings provide new information on using mobile assignments in work where carrying out tasks involves creativity and the tasks may be complex, not strictly limited or they may not have clear completion criteria.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Briefing news reporting with mobile assignments

Väätäjä

Egglestone

2012

Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

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“…Cross-media production has not directly been an issue in CSCW literature until now, but the field of interest can be compared with articles focusing on supported journalistic work processes in general (Heath et al 2000;Kensing et al 1998;Belotti and Rogers 1997;Forsberg and Ljungberg (1998).…”

Section: Conceptual and Analytic Framingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Seeds of Cross-Media Production

Bødker

Bechmann

2007

Comput Supported Coop Work

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We present an empirical study of an organization that has recently moved from traditional newspaper production towards cross-media production involving the integrated digital production of newspaper, television, radio and web-news. The paper focuses on the daily production rhythms of the media separately and of cross-media production. Since cross-media production is in the making, we study the instruments currently used for planning and coordination, and analyze them as seeds that will eventually make cross-media production happen. Time and timing are important in news production in general, and our analyses focus on the rhythm of the daily planning, coordination and production processes. Specifically, we analyze the temporal coordination of the activities in and around the Superdesk -the current center of coordination of the news organization, and of the persons who work specifically with planning and coordination. We demonstrate how the production rhythms of the individual media collide with that of cross-media, and how product lifecycle rhythms add to the list of causes of problems that may jeopardize crossmedia production. We propose to strengthen planning and overview support elements of the Superdesk, and the main new coordinator role of the organization. We point out how the media rhythms of newspaper in particular must be backgrounded. To achieve cross-media production, the starting point must be to strengthening and developing further the cross-media rhythms, rather than supplementing individual media rhythms.

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“…The approach presented here relates to the CSCW fraction that has turned to PD to establish the ethnographydesign relation (for example, Blomberg et al 1996 andCrabtree 2001 Kensing et al 1998) but, as Crabtree notes:…”

Section: Ethnographic Descriptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%