Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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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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Capture The Campaign

5 April, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

    Capture The Campaign

    "We would like to give you the opportunity to participate in the General Election, by taking history hostage and documenting this historical election in photographs.

    Why don't you add some creativity to the dry political process by dusting down your camera and capturing the campaign as you see it.

    All photos are credited and will feature in our online Campaign gallery. At the end of the General Election campaign a number of photos will be selected to feature in our annual Capture exhibition."

    Del.ici.us tags: election2010 crowdsourcing photography

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