Tag: crowdsourcing
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While online and digital technologies have enabled the democratisation of content provision, this also raises issues regarding the veridicality of the documentary as a genre. Where does the authority of online, crowd-sourced documentaries come from? And what expectations do audiences retain regarding the truth claims of digital documentary? With digital technologies offering the opportunity to…
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This paper discusses the various ways in which a community newspaper in Mozambique is creatively appropriating new media technologies to enhance its news production and distribution practices. Far from being backward, the case of @Verdade demonstrates that despite being under-resourced, community newspapers in Africa are catching up in terms of creatively appropriating new media technologies.…
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock have partnered to create a national project that helps anyone openly file and track public records requests which can answer just these questions, providing spot checks across America on which agencies and departments are planning, deploying or budgeting for drone deployments now or in the future. It’s a national…
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Extracted from this Affectiva paper about “Crowdsourced Data Collection of Facial Responses”: “The internet provides the ability to crowd-source lots of useful information [17]. People are willing to engage and share visual images from their webcams [21] and these can be used for training automatic algorithms for learning. Inspired by these approaches, we capture videos of natural engagement with…
Sameer Padania 