The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies is a unique reference guide and resource on the rapidly growing and evolving field of journalism scholarship, providing credible and timely information on its key concepts, theories, and methodologies. This invaluable text includes more than 250 entries that form a comprehensive overview of the study of journalism as a distinct field. Two of ViSmedia´s team members hav contributed to this Encyclopedia, Astrid Gynnild with a chapter on Visual Journalism and Turo Uskali with a chapter on Virtual Reality Journalism.
Vos, Tim, P., et.al. 2019. The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN-13: 978-1118841679 ISBN-10: 1118841670
The animal–robot analogy is one of the most commonly used in attempting to frame interactions between humans and robots and it also tends to push in the direction of blurring the distinction between humans and machines. In this article Deborah Johnson argues that, despite some shared characteristics, when it comes to thinking about the moral status of humanoid robots, legal liability, and the impact of treatment of humanoid robots on how humans treat one another, analogies with animals are misleading.
Johnson, Deborah G. and Mario Verdicchio. 2018. “Why robots should not be treated like animals”. Ethics Inf Technol. 20: 291–301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-018-9481-5
In The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies ViSmedia member Nicholas Diakopoulos are one of the co-writers of the chapter: Disclose, Decode and Demystify: An Empirical Guide to Algorithmic Transparency.
Eldridge, Scott || and Bob Franklin. 2018. The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies. Edited book. Routledge. ISBN 9781315270449
Professor and ViSmedia member Paul C. Adams has written the first chapter of the new book; Migrants, Refugees, and the Media The New Reality of Open Societies published by Routledge.
The large-scale movements of refugees and economic migrants from conflict zones to more stable societies have resulted in challenges, both for new entrants and their hosts. This fascinating volume brings together a collection of media analyses focused on immigration issues to examine how migration has been represented to the public.
Khrisna-Hensel, Sai Felicia. 2018. Migrants, Refugees and the Media. Edited book, 1st edition. Routledge. ISBN 9780815377177
Authors: Martin Moore, Damian Tambini, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Daniel Trielli, Jennifer Stark, Sean Mussenden
«Across the globe, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft have accumulated power in ways that existing regulatory and intellectual frameworks struggle to comprehend. A consensus is emerging that the power of these new digital monopolies is unprecedented and that it has important implications for journalism, politics, and society.» ViSmedia team member Nicholas Diakopoulos is cowriter of chapter 13. «I Vote For—How Search Informs Our Choice of Candidate»
Moore, Martin, et.al. 2018. Digital Dominance: The Power of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. New York, Oxford University Press
This article introduces the concept of academic prototypes, and shows how they can lead to technological innovation in journalism. We propose an innovation method that transforms a value-oriented academic prototype into a market-oriented journalistic service. The principles for product development presented here are based on the lean startup method as well as business model canvassing.
Nyre, Lars, Joao Ribero and Bjørnas Tessem. 2018. “Business models for academic prototypes: A new approach to media innovation”. The Journal of Media Innovations. 4 (2): 4-19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5617/jomi.v4i2.2616
Nicholas Diakopoulos, Nathalie Henry Riche, Christophe Hurter, and Sheelagh Carpendale have edited this accessible introduction to data-driven storytelling. It offers an integrated definition of the topic, presents vivid examples and patterns for data storytelling, and calls out key challenges and new opportunities for researchers and practitioners. Nicholas Diakopoulos has also co-edited two of the chapters.
Diakopoulos, Nicholas et.al. 2018. “Introduction”. In: Data-Driven Storytelling. Edited Book by Henry Riche, Nathalie, et.al. A. K. Peters, CRC Press. ISBN 9781138197107
This paper reports the design and first evaluations of new digital support for journalists to discover and examine crea-tive angles on news stories under development. The support integrated creative news search algorithms, interactive crea-tive sparks and reusable concept cards into one daily work tool of journalists.
Maiden, Neil, Konstantinos Zachos, Amanda Brown, George Brock, Lars Nyre, Aleksander Nygård Tonheim, Dimitris Apsotolou and Jeremy Evans. 2018. “Making the News: Digital Creativity Support for Journalists”. CHI: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 475: 1-11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174049
What are civil drones, and how can they be used responsibly in our society? These are questions this book, written by Astrid Gynnild, Åke Refsdal Moe, Bente Heggedal, Elisabeth Krauss Amundsen, Helge Veum, Frode Guribye, Lars Nyre, Nils E. Øy, Rune Ottosen, and Øyvind Vågnes. Editor is Astrid Gynnild.
Gynnild, Astrid. (red). 2018. Droner i sivilsamfunnet. Aktører, teknologi og etiske utfordringer. Oslo, Cappelen Damm Akademisk
This report presents the development process of the app «Tilhører» , the user interface and the technology behind it. “Tilhører” is an application that present an alternative sound experience, and is a collaborative between researchers from Bergen University College and The University of Bergen.
Hoem, Jon Øyvind and Lars Nyre. 2018. “Tilhører. En prototype på fremtidens omsluttende radio”. Norsk Medietidsskrift 25 (1): 1-19. DOI: 10.18261/ISSN.0805-9535-2018-01-04
The use of camera drones is expanding. Responsible Drone Journalism investigates the opportunities and dilemmas of using drones for journalistic purposes in a global perspective, drawing on a framework of responsible research and innovation (RRI). Edited by Astrid Gynnild and Turo Uskali.
Gynnild, Astrid and Turo Uskali. 2018. Responsible Drone Journalism. Edited book. New York, Routledge. ISBN-13: 978-1138059351 ISBN-10: 1138059358
Turo Uskali has written chapter 13 in the book Mobile and Ubiquitous Media. The volume seeks to provide "a diverse set of critical, theoretical, and international approaches useful to those looking for a more diverse and nuanced understanding of what ubiquitous media means analytically".
Uskali, Turo. 2018. “Towards Journalism Everywhere: The New Opportunities and Challenges of Real-Time News Streams in Finland”. In Daubs, Michael S. and Vincent R. Manzerolle. Mobile and Ubiquitous Media (edited book). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b13289
The concept of agency as applied to technological artifacts has become an object of heated debate in the context of AI research because some AI researchers ascribe to programs the type of agency traditionally associated with humans. Confusion about agency is at the root of misconceptions about the possibilities for future AI. We introduce the concept of a triadic agency that includes the causal agency of artifacts and the intentional agency of humans to better describe what happens in AI as it functions in real-world contexts.
Johnson, Deborah G. and Mario Verdicchio. 2018. “AI, agency and responsibility: the VW fraud case and beyond”. AI & Soc 34: 639–647. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-017-0781-9
Øyvind Vågnes investigates photos taken from an unfamiliar angle: From bird's eye view, or the drone's lens view. The article argues that Houtryve’s photographs enable a strategy of “uninventing precision”.
Vågenes, Øyvind. 2017. “Drone Vision: Towards a Critique of the Rhetoric of Precision” Krisis: Tiljdschrift voor actuele filosofie 1: 8-17
Journal article by Frode Guribye iand Lars Nyre. This study explores new video tools for television news, and the tinkering that reporting teams need to do to adapt to such tools.They conduct interviews with six journalists and photographers at Norwegian broadcaster TV 2 to explore live news reporting.
Guribye, Frode and Lars Nyre. 2017. “The Changing Ecology of Tools for Live News Reporting”. Journalism Practice 11 (10): 1216-1230. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2016.1259011
Astrid Gynnild, Maria Nilsson, Anne Hege Simonsen and Hanna Weselius have edited this issue, and contributed with studies about "Photojournalism and Editorial Processes: Global Similarities, Local Differences".
Gynnild, Astrid., Maria Nilsson, Anne Hege Simonsen and Hanna Weselius. 2017. “Introduction: Photojournalism and Editorial Processes. Global Similarities, Local Differences” in Nordicom Review 38, Special Issue 2: 1-5. DOI: 10.1515/nor-2017-0410.
One could create realistic, anonymized faces as an aesthetic alternative to the coarse techniques of blurring or pixelation normally used today. In this proceeding, the authors describe how we can use algorithms for face manipulation from computer vision to anonymize faces in journalism.
Midtun, Joar, Bjørnar Tessem, Simen Skaret Karlsen and Lars Nyre. 2017. “Realistic Face Manipulation by Morphing With Average Faces” NIKT: Norsk IKT-konferanse for forskning og utdanning. Available at: https://ojs.bibsys.no/index.php/NIK/article/view/426
Pesearch paper by Nicholas Diakopoulos and Jennifer A Stark. It argues that there is a need to develop guidelines or frameworks for how to responsibly and accountably employ algorithms and data in journalism. It describes steps toward transparency with respect to computational journalism drawing from two case studies.
Stark, Jennifer A. and Nicholas Diakopoulos. 2016. “Towards Editorial Transparency in Computational Journalism”.
In this article, Paul C. Adams examines unusual maps of migration with the aim to provide a foundation for concrete recommendations regarding the responsible use of cartographic visualization as a component of immigration news.
Adams, Paul C. 2017. “Migration Maps with the News”. Journalism Studies 19 (4): 527-547. DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2017.1375387
Cartography is one of the oldest forms of media. With cartography and media, meaning, ideology, and power are habitually arbitrated across and through space and time. Media has an underlying mapping impulse – a proclivity to comprehend itself and be rendered comprehensible through metaphors of topologies, networks, and flows that lead to the constant evacuation of spaces in order to produce places of communication. In this book ViSmedia associate Paul Adams has written the first chapter were he share his research on Media’s Mapping Impulse.
