Einar Thorsen

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GameChanger: providing tools for citizen sports journalism – Online Journalism Blog

12 April, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

    GameChanger: providing tools for citizen sports journalism – Online Journalism Blog

    Karthika Muthukumaraswamy on GameChanger, a new iPhone app for citizen sports journalism:

    "Using the tool, scores and stats, as they happen, can be tapped into an iPhone by coaches, fans and parents. This is translated into a “gamestream” that appears on the Gamechanger site instantaneously so fans can access live updates, box scores, and play by plays.

    […]

    So GameChanger provides an application to the community surrounding a team, which, in turn, allows the community to provide data from the field to GameChanger. In other words, it is crowdsourcing with organized content gathering.

    […]

    If such an application can make data gathering, analysis and distribution easier in the case of simple scoring of a little league game, could it find potential in other, more complex issues? Such as election results, exit polls or the statistics of climate change? […] Such a foolproof application would increase participation and minimize error."

    Del.ici.us tags: iphone citizenjournalism sport crowdsourcing

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