Journalism’s professional practices
What are the disciplinary implications of new technological advances on journalistic work processes for journalistic methodology and ethical standards? How are journalism’s professional practices changing due to digitalisation?
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Lars Arve Røssland’s project on crime, ethics and the Internet
Røssland will use comparative case studies and interviews to investigate how crime reporting online poses challenges to the traditional codes of ethics for journalist by looking at how the norms and practices influence each other.
Dag Elgesem’s project on recycling of news in online newspapers
Together with Richard Moe and two assistants Elgesem will develop a system for automatically identifying overlap and reuse of news from the array of ten online newspapers from 2005 and onwards. The material is taken from a corpus of online newspapers at the University of Bergen (Uni Digital). The goal is to be able to analyze patterns in the digital news production and to visualize flows of news within and between online newspapers over a period of time.
Astrid Gynnild’s project on visual data gathering online
Gynnild will, in a comparative, transnational newsroom study, analyze the use of visual data gathering among young news professionals.
Eirik Stavelin project on models for computational journalism
This ongoing PhD project on computational journalism aims to develop end describe how computation, web- and software development can be utilized as a journalistic practice. By development and evaluation of information systems for gathering, systematization and dissemination of journalistic material, the project falls under the methodological umbrella of design science.
