dan turner – THATCamp Bay Area 2011 http://bayarea2011.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:33:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 “So you say… and who are you, anyway?”: User needs for trust in social media http://bayarea2011.thatcamp.org/10/21/so-you-say-and-who-are-you-anyway-user-needs-for-trust-in-social-media/ http://bayarea2011.thatcamp.org/10/21/so-you-say-and-who-are-you-anyway-user-needs-for-trust-in-social-media/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:42:00 +0000 http://bayarea2011.thatcamp.org/?p=326 Continue reading →]]>

I’m just starting to explore the needs for journalists who use social media and other crowd-produced reports (SMS, blogs, Flickr, etc.) to become aware of breaking events, or for surfacing topics, or for cultivating sources.

It’s my hope that social science, qualitative research, and a good understanding of the technical issues can help us break down: What affects confidence in a report? In a source? What is relevant to identity?

And different beats might have different use cases and sets of needs. I was a journalist for a decade, but never faced the challenges of crisis or war reporting, or did a long-term investigative piece. Is there a way to find what’s in common, and what varies, and design that into a tool?

 

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