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Observational study - how do journalists really verify user generated content

Observational study - how do journalists really verify user generated content
Observational study - how do journalists really verify user generated content
The importance of user generated content (UGC) in journalism is growing relentlessly [1] [2] [3]. Smartphones have high quality cameras able to take excellent eyewitness images, record videos of events as they happen and even stream videos in real-time. Eyewitness media will often appear on Social Networks before any mention occurs on mainstream news channels
Middleton, Stuart
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Middleton, Stuart
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Middleton, Stuart (2016) Observational study - how do journalists really verify user generated content. REVEAL.

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The importance of user generated content (UGC) in journalism is growing relentlessly [1] [2] [3]. Smartphones have high quality cameras able to take excellent eyewitness images, record videos of events as they happen and even stream videos in real-time. Eyewitness media will often appear on Social Networks before any mention occurs on mainstream news channels

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Accepted/In Press date: 10 August 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 19 August 2016
Organisations: IT Innovation

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Local EPrints ID: 399679
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/399679
PURE UUID: 93ed98af-748a-44e1-83e5-72cc7adc717c
ORCID for Stuart Middleton: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8305-8176

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Date deposited: 24 Aug 2016 11:02
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:08

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