Glossary

Summer Portal • Manifesto• Report Outline • Side Stories • Glossary
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new list of tags with definitions

structure

• nonprofit [meaning fundamental legal structure, not company that is not yet making $]
• public_media
• FAILED
• commercial

funding model

• ad_supported
• grant_supported [some but not all non-profits]
• vc_funded

Focus of news

• hyperlocal [covers smaller geographic area than the nearest daily paper/mainstream news program]
• information_based [i.e., data more than news, Everyblock, Backyard Post, etc.]
• [location] area (describes location focus)
• local [not bigger than the coverage area of a daily paper]
• niche (hyperlocal in terms of content, i.e. human rights, media, middle-east)

location of news

• multinational_news
• national (other)
• national (US)
• aggregator
• audience_generated [bulk of content is created by users, including ones that are not vetted]
• big_media [mainstream media company investment, ownership, or initiated]
• commercial [for-profit]

Source of Content

• original_reporting [again, could be volunteer, pro, edited, audience-generated, and heavily link-based or whatever, as long as it’s adding more value than just summarizing/pointing, i.e., synthesizing multiple sources counts]
• pro_am [refers only to a mix of paid/unpaid trained/untrained editorial staff, NOT about whether business manager, ad sales folks are pros or paid]
• social_media
• volunteer_authors
• [little, some, majority] audience-generated content REPLACES audience-contributed, audience-generated
• [little, some, majority] from [source] (describes the source of much content) [need to figure out to standardize - PM]

presentation of news

• user_curated
• edited [selection of articles controlled by humans with special status normally indicates publisher model, could be pro, volunteer, mix]
• multinational_audience

A

Advertorial

Amateur

Application Programming Interface (API)

a source code interface that an operating system or library provides to support requests for services to be made of it by computer programs.[1] The software that provides the functionality described by an API is said to be an implementation of the API. The API itself is abstract, in that it specifies an interface and the behavior of the identifiers specified in that interface, it does not specify how the behavior might be implemented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Api

accidental journalism

automated journalism

B

Behavioral targeting or behavioural targeting

a technique used by online publishers and advertisers to increase the effectiveness of their campaigns.

Behavioral targeting uses information collected on an individual's web-browsing behavior, such as the pages they have visited or the searches they have made, to select which advertisements to display to that individual. Practitioners believe this helps them deliver their online advertisements to the users who are most likely to be influenced by them.

Behavioral marketing can be used on its own or in conjunction with other forms of targeting based on factors like geography, demographics or the surrounding content.

Examples of behavioural targeting in advertising targeting systems include: nugg.ad, AdLINK 360, Boomerang, DoubleClick, and WunderLoop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_marketing

C

Citizen

Civic

Content Management System (CMS)

a system used to manage the content of a Web site.[1] Content management systems are deployed primarily for interactive use by a potentially large number of contributors. For example, the software for the website Wikipedia is based on a wiki, which is a particular type of content management system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system

List of CMS’s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems

Crowdsource

Crowdfund

D

Daily Me

E

Echo chamber

F

Folksonomy

A means of classifying and categorizing data on the web through collaborative efforts from the online community. This is more commonly known as (though not strictly synonymous to) ‘tagging’. http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2006/02/24/a-quick-web-20-glossary/

Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging , social classification, social indexing, social tagging, and other names) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. In contrast to traditional subject indexing, metadata is not only generated by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content. Usually, freely chosen keywords are used instead of a controlled vocabulary.[1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy

H

hyperlocal

I

interactive

J

journalism

K

keyword

a word or concept with special significance, in particular any word used as the key to a code or used in a reference work to link to other words or other information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword

L

link journalism

Linking to outside sources from a news article, including other news articles from various organization. Implies that the author has read the article, assimilated the knowledge, and understands how it fits in his / her current piece. http://publishing2.com/2008/05/22/new-york-times-embraces-link-journalism/

M

microjournalism

microblogging

N

networked journalism

New

News

natural language processing (NLP)

various attempts to use artificial intelligence to process natural language, including speech synthesis, speech recognition, natural language understanding and generation and machine translation.

O

Online

P

Participatory

Personal

Profession

Public Media

Public media are projects and behaviors that address and mobilize publics, within any media. Some media are designed for this purpose (prestige journalism, public broadcasting), while others may do that occasionally (commercial television and radio, blogs). Center for Social Media at American University

R

reverse publish

Many citizen media sites actually turn their web content into a print publication, a process called reverse publishing.

S

Serendipity

Silo effect

Social bookmarking

a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

SoJo

Solo journalist

U

User-generated

UGC

see User-generated content

Websites and other Applications, Services, Networks

Current TV

an Emmy award winning independent media company led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, and businessman Joel Hyatt. The cable television network went on the air at midnight EDT (4:00 UTC) on the morning of August 1, 2005. A second network, operated in the United Kingdom and Ireland started its operation March 12, 2007 for Sky and Virgin Media subscribers.

Current features "pods", or short programs, of which 30% are created by viewers and users.

Users (called VC2 Producers) contribute three-to-seven-minute "pods", which are usually documentary in nature. The content is filtered by registered users on Current's website through a voting process. VC2 makes up a portion of the content aired on the channel. Users can also create Viewer Created Ad Messages, or V-CAMs and Current TV promos which are small promotions for either Current TV or the general topic of VC2. The channel has exclusive rights over viewer-submitted segments, but not copyright ownership.

Google provides hourly updates on popular web searches branded as Google Current. Current formerly had a business relationship with Yahoo! to supply video "channels" to The Yahoo! Current Network

Additional content is purchased by the channel through commercial methods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current.tv

Del.icio.us

Pronounced "delicious," the website is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003, and was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del.icio.us

Digg

a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.

News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg

Drupal

Flickr

a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform. It was one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its innovative online community tools that allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. It hosts over 2 billion images.[1][2][3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr

reddit

a social news website where users can post links to content on the web. Other users may then vote the posted links up or down, causing them to appear more or less prominently on the reddit home page.

The site has discussion areas where users may discuss the posted links, and vote for or against others' comments. When there are enough votes against a given comment, it will not be displayed by default, although a reader can display it through a link or preference. Users who submit articles which other users like and subsequently "vote up" receive "karma" points as a reward for submitting interesting articles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit.com

Twitter

a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service, instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

WordPress.com

Free WordPress-powered weblog hosting from company Automattic. It opened to beta testers on August 8, 2005 and opened to the public on November 21, 2005. It runs WordPress MU, a version of the original software that allows people to create and manage their own weblogs without requiring the time, money and technical knowledge involved in setting up WordPress on an ordinary hosting account. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress.com