Media News - Monday, September 17, 2012
SocialSensor: How an EU research project could help journalists filter the social web
The
stream of real-time updates available via social media platforms means
vast amounts of data is available for journalists to delve in to, such
as during breaking news events or to monitor audience reaction to their
own content. But this can also be overwhelming, as an EU-funded research project has
been finding out. Social Sensor, a three-year project partly funded by
the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme, has been underway
for around a year now, in which time research has been carried out into
how journalists across Europe currently filter the social web - and the
difficulties they face doing so. The research actually covers two use cases, news and infotainment. In
the news case, for example, the research will help inform the creation
of a prototype for an application designed for journalists searching
social networks for news. At the end of the project there will be a
period of evaluation at which point the prototype application will
either become a commercial product, or parts may feed into other
commercial products.
(Journalism.co.uk)
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