This week I’m off to the Future of Journalism conference at Cardiff University, September 8-9. The conference brings together the latest research into what is happening in journalism.
The keynote speakers this year are Robert W. McChesney and Emily Bell, formerly of the Guardian and now Director of the Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at the Columbia School of Journalism.
The research to be presented at the conference ranges from studies on Twitter to Wikileaks, from foreign news to the business of news.
The abstracts for the papers are online, but the papers themselves are only available to attendees.
I am fortunate to be presenting two papers.
“Tweets and Truth: Journalism as a Discipline of Collaborative Verification” looks at how Twitter is affecting the journalistic practice of verification.
The second, “Your Friend as Editor: The Shift to the Personalized Social News Stream”, presents a study into how social networks are becoming a significant source of news for Canadians.
I’ll be posting the presentation slides later in the week and plan to blog from the conference.
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Looks like a great conference and I’m looking forward to your coverage. Do you have any idea why the papers are only available to those who attend?
Thanks Mark. The papers are only available to attendees so that the authors can submit them to journals.
Ah. Thanks.