Participatory journalism policies in newspapers’ websites in Greece

Saridou, Theodora; Veglis, Andreas

doi:10.1386/jgmc.2.1.85_1

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“…While managing users' contributions, media organisations often face a long series of ethical, legal and responsibility issues that stem from audience engagement (Saridou and Veglis 2016;Singer et al 2011), as the incorporation of UGC by the journalists is not an easy task (Veglis 2013). Specifically, many professionals underline the excessive use of inappropriate language, flaming, stereotyping, superficial discourse and incivility that impede constructive public discourse (Coe et al 2014;Manosevitch 2011).…”

Section: Participatory Journalismmentioning

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A Participatory Journalism Management Platform: Design, Implementation and Evaluation

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During the last two decades, citizens’ participation in news production process has attracted significant interest from both academia and the media industry. Media production and consumption have been altered considerably and traditional concepts, such as gatekeeping, have been under discussion. Many news organisations include in their websites tools and applications that allow users to be active consumers or even co-producers of journalistic content, by liking, sharing, commenting and submitting material. At the same time, large amounts of user-generated content are uploaded every day on social media platforms. Subsequently, media organisations must deal with continually available information which requires management, classification and evaluation not only to keep high journalistic standards, but also to avoid problems. The latter category can include grammar mistakes, fake or misleading information and hate speech. All the above-mentioned parameters highlight the obvious need for platforms that can support journalism manage practice. Such a platform should utilise semantic technologies, which can support organised collection and moderation of content in an effective way and in short time. This study discusses the design and the implementation of a participatory journalism management platform.

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Section: Participatory Journalismmentioning

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“…News media can let users themselves moderate content by using buttons to rank comments or to report abuse (Hille & Baker, 2014, p. 565). All strategies can be accompanied by purely technical methods such as automated moderation under predefined filters that detect and replace banned words, phrases, IP addresses and paragraphs (Veglis, 2014) or Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA), which are employed in the websites more rarely (Saridou & Veglis, 2016), aiming to block computer-derived mass entries. The reCAPTCHA service offered by Google is the most widely used CAPTCHA service and has been adopted by many websites for preventing automated bots from conducting nefarious activities (Sivakorn et al, 2016).…”

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Towards a Semantic-oriented Model of Participatory Journalism Management

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Veglis²,

Tsipas³

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During the last two decades, citizens' participation in news production process has raised great academic and entrepreneurial interest for participatory journalism. Traditional procedures and concepts such as gate keeping have been under discussion. News organizations redesign their websites in order to adopt tools and applications that make it possible for users to be active consumers or even co-producers of journalistic content, by liking, sharing, commenting and submitting material. At the same time, huge amounts of user-generated content are uploaded every minute on social media platforms. Subsequently, professionals have to deal with continually available information, which requires management, classification and evaluation in order to keep high journalistic standards and to avoid problems, varying from plain grammar mistakes to serious situations of fake news, hostility or hate speech. Thus, there is the obvious need for a new model of managing participatory journalism, based on semantic technologies, which will support organized collection and moderation of content in an effective way and in short time. The main objective of this paper is to define the requirements and describe the characteristics that the model should have. For this purpose, two online surveys of journalists and users were conducted in Greece, in order to gain some insights concerning the development of the model. The paper presents the key findings from the surveys and identifies the views, the preferences and the experiences as expressed by the respondents, which lead to the tendency towards a collaborative, semantic-oriented way of submitting and receiving user-generated content.

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“…The challenge of exploiting a world of data stemming from a variety of sources is therefore posed to media organizations, as the incorporation of UGC often provokes threats to the ethical and legal established modus operandi [21,24]. At times of economic uncertainty, hyper-competition and diminishing accountability levels, when convergence is used as a cost-effective strategy fostering low-cost and spreadable news production [23], the hectic pace of news production process enhances the need of continuous monitoring and effective management.…”

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Misinformation and User-Generated content: Applying participatory journalism practices in fact-checking

Saridou¹,

Maniou²,

Veglis³

2020

Human Computer Interaction and Emerging Technologies: Adjunct Proceedings From the INTERACT 2019 Workshops

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In the evolving news media landscape, the proliferation of user-generated content in online news outlets and social media platforms has triggered changes in traditional processes and relationships. However, the coexistence of professional and amateur content raises a wide range of matters. Misinformation is one of the main problems faced by media organizations during the exploitation of huge amounts of data. In order to ensure the quality of the content, journalists use control methods and perform fact-checking not only on their own, but also by engaging users. By offering an examination of key issues arising from UGC research, this article seeks to focus on the application of participatory practices in fact-checking. In addition to more traditional methods, the webbased platform of Truly Media, which supports collaborative verification, is used as a case-study.

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Participatory journalism policies in newspapers’ websites in Greece

Cited by 11 publications

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A Participatory Journalism Management Platform: Design, Implementation and Evaluation

A Participatory Journalism Management Platform: Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Towards a Semantic-oriented Model of Participatory Journalism Management

Misinformation and User-Generated content: Applying participatory journalism practices in fact-checking

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