COCOMEDIA

Descriptions from blogs, comments, reactions and websites constitute an ideal foundation from which to learn what the current trends are and what the local social groups are up to. These channels are also very useful to gain an insight into the local population, specifically how they perceive and experience specific news and events.

The selection, usage and management of this information constitute another important challenge for this project. Technical research needs to be done in order to analyse and categorise these sources of data, so that journalists can use them together with existing archives and moderated input.

An integrated proof-of-concept demonstrator will be created in order to validate the different technologies. A collaborative calendar will serve as a communication (input and output) channel with the community. To effectively process -using such media business criteria as reliability and relevance of information, etc.- both the information and the "user generated content" that the community generates, it is necessary to research and develop a methodological framework that eases the labour intensive act of non-automated manual moderation.

"Collaborative community media' also opens various possibilities for a more efficient usage of editorial resources (more and more content will originate with the audience and might therefore require editing). The ideas around moderation and 'networked journalism' have definitely changed the traditional gatekeeper role of a journalist. This project also has the objective to determine what changes are necessary at editorial level to maximise the efficiency of usage of all the available resources.

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