Nonlinear news production and consumption

Abstract

People depend on news to make sense of happenings in the world, but current digital news products do not live up to their potential in this regard. Interactivity in relation to news is often seen as a way to give the consumer control over when to consume something and on which platform. Less attention has been placed on what should be consumed and how. Within the project MyNewsMyWay, a news service was constructed that makes possible a more in-depth and varied media consumption than what traditional news services offer today. In the follow-up design study OurNewsOurWays, additional attention was put on the possibility of combining professional news material with usergenerated content.

Enablers for non-linear video distribution

“…In recent work such as [8] and [14], this approach was abandoned and the need to create footage specifically for non-linear consumption was recognized. In [10], this triggered the design of a dedicated production environment for non-linear news productions.…”

Models and operators for extension of active multimedia documents via annotations

“…On the other extreme of the spectrum, which we classify as amateur-professional, the communication conveyed via multimedia content occurs in a more structured manner and generally with a longer duration. Examples of amateur-professional production are publication of lectures [Tung et al, 2011], technical talks [Adcock et al, 2010], independent and collaborative journalism [Lindstedt et al, 2009], multimedia-based qualitative research [LaRosa et al, 2009], among others. In these cases, the difficulty to organize and to modify in fine granularity the captured information might be an impediment to enable proper communication of ideas or to keep the attention of the audience.…”