SOCMEDNEWS 2012 - WORKSHOP ON THE POTENTIAL OF SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS AND DATA FOR JOURNALISTS IN THE NEWS MEDIA INDUSTRY (SOCMEDNEWS)

WORKSHOP ON THE POTENTIAL OF SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS AND DATA FOR JOURNALISTS IN THE NEWS MEDIA INDUSTRY (SOCMEDNEWS)
Half Day, June 4, 2012
The news media industry has recognized that there is an undeniable shift in the way content is produced, consumed and distributed, including the sharing thereof. Nowadays, there are numerous cases in which "established" news agencies and news outlets are not the first point of call for users because everybody equipped with e.g. a smartphone can capture and publish events as they unfold on a platform of their choice (e.g. on YouTube, in Facebook, via Twitter etc). For this reason, news media organizations are increasingly depending on content from and information residing in Social Networks. However, news organizations are facing one crucial question when it comes to using content from the social web: "Can I trust this source? Is the source reliable? ". The aim of this workshop is to encourage participants to discuss, share and exchange ideas and results on social media research, technologies, and applications in two essential areas: newsgathering in the social web and filtering / analyzing the available data (e.g. by relevance, reliability, accuracy etc).
ORGANIZERS
Cosmin Cabulea, Deutsche Welle, Germany
Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Jonathon Hare, University of Southampton, UK
Jochen Spangenberg, Deutsche Welle, Germany
Dominik Frey, Südwestrundfunk, Germnany
EMAIL
Cosmin Cabulea
WEB
http://www.arcomem.eu/icwsm-2012-workshop/