ajda

- or: How to be a better sceptic

The crowd

Lost ones

Trusting ones

Audience in between

The idea

• Increasing news literacy
• Telling people about journalistic work
• Be open about common difficulties
• Create an easy-to-use tool

The tool

https://dpa-newslab.github.io/ajda/example/
 

Three functions:

• Explains commonly used phrases by highlighting problematic phrases
• Provides information on experts by finding other citations by the same named entity
• Gives you out-of-bubble perspective by finding stories about the same named entities "in the other camp"

The stack

• hypothes.is - open source web annotation software and infrastructure based on recommendations of the  W3C Web Annotation Working Group - has REST API, Wordpress / Drupal plugins and much more.
• TXTWerk NERD (linked open data) + Python NLTK + BBC's Juicer as a linked-data news index as a basis for source background check and out-of-bubble context

 

Please see dpa-newslab.github.io/ajda/2016/11/29/what-we-used/

The name?

• Automated
• Journalism
• Discovery
• Agent

 

WNYC “The Breaking News Consumer’s Handbook”: http://dpaq.de/8ayo3

Washington Post “200 journalism clichés – and counting”:  http://dpaq.de/L1R1Y

BBC News Style Guide: http://dpaq.de/G6vT3

Columbia Journalism Review “Journalism and clichés”: http://dpaq.de/cCWL2

Center for  News Literacy “What is News Literacy?”: http://dpaq.de/Nsapy

Projekt “Floskelwolke” in Germany: http://dpaq.de/vHaUZ

Der Journalist on "Floskeln, die Journalisten streichen sollten“: http://dpaq.de/ZwCSr

Der deutsche Presserat „Der Pressekodex“: http://dpaq.de/skhoP

 

Sources - more to read

Thanks!

• Martin Virtel, dpa-newslab
• Fabian Schmidt, Neofonie
• Julia Kilian, dpa