http://academics.irfanessa.com Academic Activities and Highlights Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:20:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://academics.irfanessa.com/2008/08/12/event-acm-siggraph-2008-class-on-computional-and-journalism-2/#comment-14 Siggraph » Event: ACM Siggraph 2008 Class on Computional and Journalism Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:24:14 +0000 http://academics.irfanessa.com/?p=142#comment-14 [...] Fundamentally, journalism is the process of collecting news information and disseminating that information with a layer of contextualization and understanding provided by journalists in the form of a news story. Recent advances in computational technology are rapidly affecting how news is gathered, reported, and distributed, and how stories are authored and told. New technologies for aggregating, visualizing, summarizing, consuming, and collaborating on news are becoming increasingly popular. They are challenging the traditional practices of journalism and directly affecting the future of news production and consumption. Read more about this event and how it’s of special interest to the SIGGRAPH community [...] [...] Fundamentally, journalism is the process of collecting news information and disseminating that information with a layer of contextualization and understanding provided by journalists in the form of a news story. Recent advances in computational technology are rapidly affecting how news is gathered, reported, and distributed, and how stories are authored and told. New technologies for aggregating, visualizing, summarizing, consuming, and collaborating on news are becoming increasingly popular. They are challenging the traditional practices of journalism and directly affecting the future of news production and consumption. Read more about this event and how it’s of special interest to the SIGGRAPH community [...]

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