Here is the presentation I gave at the International Symposium on Online Journalism at UT Austin of our paper, Sourcing the Arab Spring: A case study of Andy Carvin’s sources during the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions. The abstract is available on the papers site of the International Symposium on Online Journalism. Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin’s Sources During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions View more presentations from

Here are the posts covering some of the highlights of the International Online Journalism Symposium for 2012 at UT Austin: Japan tsunami photos highlight human cost, study finds In the final research panel at ISOJ, Rosellen Downey, Erika Johnson, and Bailey Brewer, University of Missouri, looked at the coverage in photos of the Japanese tsunami. WSJ Raju Narisetti on the need to create great news experiences The last keynote at

In the final research panel at ISOJ, Rosellen Downey, Erika Johnson, and Bailey Brewer, University of Missouri, looked at the coverage in photos of the Japanese tsunami. The study, Through the lens: Visual framing of the Japan tsunami in U.S., British, and Chinese online media, looked at how the Japanese tsunami was reflected in the images of US, British and Chinese media. The researchers examined at 242 photos, 58 from NPR, 52 from the

The last keynote at ISOJ was Raju Narisetti, managing editor, Wall Street Journal Digital Network Narisetti said the big challenge faces journalism is turning great content into great experiences He noted that great content is now available in a wide variety of places. So just having smart content is not enough. Instead, he said, we have to create experiences to engage the user. We are terrible at turning the multimedia parts

Here’s the media release on the research I presented at the International Symposium on Online Journalism at UT Austin on Saturday, April 21: A new study shows how far NPR’s Andy Carvin, known as “the man who tweets revolutions,” favoured the voice of protesters in his reporting on Twitter of the Arab Spring. The rigorous analysis of more than 5,000 tweets found that Carvin’s feed gave higher priority to the messages from

Angelica Peralta Ramos, multimedia development manager, La Nación in Argentina, gave an insight into the challenges of doing data journalism. In her ISOJ talk, she explained how La Nacion started doing data visualisations with few resources and in a less than friendly government environment. Peralta pointed out that Argentina ranks 100 out of 180 in corruption index. The country does not have a freedom of information law and it not part

At ISOJ, Alberto Cairo, lecturer in visual journalism, University of Miami, raised some critical questions about the visualisation of data in journalism. Cairo explained that an information graphic is a tool for presenting information and for exploring information. In the past, info graphics were about editing data down and summarising it. But this worries me, he says, as it is just presenting information but does not allow readers to explore the

Day two of the ISOJ started off with a keynote by Bob Metcalfe, professor of Innovation and Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise, University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of Engineering. He is behind Metcalfe’s Law, which states that a communications network is proportional to the square number of connected users. Metcalfe set the scene by explaining how the internet has been disrupting industries for many years and posing a challenge

Linda Jean Kenix of University of Canterbury in New Zealand presented the results of a study of Samoa Topix at ISOJ. The study,with Christine Daviault, asked the question, Is this the future of online news? An examination of Samoa Topix. Topix describes itself as a place for people to share and talk about the news. The about page says ”Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and

Online journalism start-ups in Europe are struggling, according to a report from the Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen presented the results of the study, Survival is Sucess, co-authored by Nicola Bruno, at ISOJ. They found that journalism start-ups are facing a challenging time. First, news is still dominated by legacy businesses, with national differences. In Germany, there is a strong but declining legacy news media, whereas in