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MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE INTERNET:AN ACCULTURATION STRATEGY FOR PRESS OF RECORD?

2010-01-24T11:57:00.000-08:00

Innovation Journalism Vol.7 No. 1
By Chloë Salles

http://www.innovationjournalism.org/archive/INJO-7-1.pdf

This paper is part of a wider doctoral study focusing on the acculturation of press of record to the Internet. The article presents evidence persuading us that the on-going crisis that the Press is enduring (and has for a while), though raising constant concern on questions of survival and democratic mechanisms, also sees the formation of small areas in which experiences are run, while symbolically and economically strong companies continue to function normally (i.e. according to historical norms). Here we describe localized areas based on coverage newspapers provide regarding their relation to innovation, perhaps a place to mediate two cultures: ‘old,’ traditional newspaper culture and the Internet. These suggestions are based on interviews at Le Monde with different hierarchy practitioners and the analysis of diverse entities in articles covering innovation, especially those mentioning ‘crisis’ and ‘blogs’.

IJ-6 THE SIXTH CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION JOURNALISM

2009-11-11T18:51:00.000-08:00

Innovation Journalism Vol.6 No.8 Nov 2009

IJ-6, the Sixth Conference on Innovation Journalism took place at Stanford University 18-20 May 2009. The conference materials have since then been available on the conference website. They can as from now also be referred to through the Innovation Journalism Publication Series.

The picture above is linked to a movie with the keynote speech by Vint Cerf. (On picture from right to left- Vint Cerf, Doug Engelbart, David Nordfors)

DIGITAL IDENTITIES AND JOURNALISM CONTENT - HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND JOURNALISM MAY CO-DEVELOP AND WHY SOCIETY SHOULD CARE

2009-11-11T18:21:00.000-08:00

Innovation Journalism Vol.6 No.7
By Noam Lemelshtrich Latar and David Nordfors

Link: http://www.innovationjournalism.org/archive/INJO-6-7.pdf

Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms are changing professional journalism and related academic research dramatically. AI is penetrating journalism’s pillars: content (through automatic content analysis in all formats), and advertising (by scientific measurement of real consumer attention and targeting ads per user personality). Both content and advertising will change significantly.

The interactive nature of the new media will permit, for the first time, accurate measurement of the real attention consumers of media give to journalistic content, employing scientific methods. Advertisers will demand full validation of consumer ratings. Existing measuring methods will vanish. Advertisers ROI (Return On Investment) will determine the fate of advertising funded journalism companies across all media formats.

New ways to measure consumer attention and behavior, such as ‘engagement’ and ‘behavioral targeting,’ are becoming the new buzzwords describing deeper consumer involvement with content across multiple personal dimensions. New AI algorithms are being created that will allow automatically deciphering and tagging content to enable search engines to seek new, practical knowledge. Video, audio, images and texts are being converted to mathematical formulations that lend themselves to automatic ‘knowledge discovery analysis’ without human intervention.

AI engines will be used by media companies to search customers for content interests, automatically. Dependence on gaining measurable consumer attention can be expected to induce journalists in all media platforms to adjust content to maximize consumer attention and advertising dollars. New business models will be needed to reduce the intrinsic risk to journalistic freedom that the new methods will induce.

In this paper we shall describe the global efforts in devising universal standards for the management of digital identities and how artificial intelligence will be used to automatically annotate journalistic content. We shall describe the new concepts being used to increase consumer real attention to media content and describe the architecture of an AI engine that will target content according to consumer personalities. The consequences of these developments will be discussed.

WEAK SIGNALS IN INNOVATION JOURNALISM – CASES GOOGLE, FACEBOOK AND TWITTER

2009-07-01T14:38:00.000-07:00

Innovation Journalism Vol.6 No.6 1 June 2009
By Turo Uskali

This article illuminates the news flows of three Silicon Valley companies – Google, Facebook and Twitter - particularly during the start-up ‘early’ phase. The article presents The News Evolution Model for better understanding the evolution of innovation news.

IT AND DEMOCRACY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE POWER OF DIGITAL IMAGES TO STRENGTHEN THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESS

2009-06-01T13:25:00.000-07:00

Innovation Journalism Vol 6 No 5, 1 June 2009
By Larry Pryor

Virtual Environments (VEs) open new possibilities for journalism. The advanced technology, which still resides mostly in laboratories, only requires adaptation and the imagination that can enable journalists to think with technology. The literature of VE theory shows the possibility exists to create alternative worlds that invite the public to share knowledge necessary for rational policy decisions. Our research has looked at using head-mounted displays to tell news stories, and we have worked with a multi-user 360° panoramic display. A project is now under way to use immersive techniques to model port expansions in Southern California. We will also seek to find ways to distribute this visual information across individual, community and institutional audiences.

PITFALLS OF ATTENTION WORK IN THE INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

2009-06-01T12:48:00.000-07:00

Innovation Journalism Vol 6 No 5, 1 June 2009
By Vilma Luoma-aho, Turo Uskali and Alisa Weinstein

In this study we concentrated on the pitfalls of attention work in the innovation ecosystem of Silicon Valley by interviewing 20 journalists, analysts, entrepreneurs, investors and PR practitioners in the fall 2008. The major outcome of the research was that attention work has become harder for both professional groups of journalists and public relations practitioners in recent times. After observing the many difficulties in communicating the innovations and innovation ecosystems, what requires more extended examination here is the concrete advice of helping the flow of innovation information. This does not only mean new tools or new types of media, but new types of collaboration between the different attention workers.

FOCUS ON GROWTH: INNOVATION, THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC INTEREST

2009-06-01T12:18:00.000-07:00

Innovation Journalism Vol.6 No.3, 1 June 2009.
by Carl-Gustav Linden

Innovation Journalism (InJo) has been promoted as a new type of media work that can be of value to stakeholders in the innovation eco-system, which means that it is mainly catering to particular interests. In some parts it resembles the “public sphere model” of Habermas. It is also presented as a business model in itself with strong links to the dominating “market model” of the media. This is limiting the scope of potential influence. Economic growth through innovations in social and physical technology is of interest to the society as a whole. This paper deals with the issue of how public interest in a larger perspective can be related to InJo. For this purpose possible stakeholders are mapped and discussed. The suggestion is that InJo can be framed as journalism dealing with long waves and the most important sources of economic growth and societal renewal.

ATTENTION AND REPUTATION IN THE INNOVATION ECONOMY

2009-05-13T17:48:00.000-07:00

Innovation Journalism Vol. 6 No. 2 May 13, 2009
By Vilma Luoma-aho and David Nordfors

The paper suggests that attention is a success component in today’s innovation economy, but that it must be connected to the formation of reputation to translate this success to the players in the ecosystem. The paper studies the roles of the different attention workers in creating reputation for innovations and inventions, and explains how attention and reputation contribute jointly to success. Attention and reputation are central topics related to innovation journalism, as well as innovation communication and public relations.

INNOVATION JOURNALISM, ATTENTION WORK, AND THE INNOVATION ECONOMY. A Review of the Innovation Journalism Initiative 2003-2009

2009-05-01T17:21:00.000-07:00

Innovation Journalism Vol. 6 No. 1 May 1, 2009

By David Nordfors

Full article here: http://www.innovationjournalism.org/archive/injo-6-1.pdf

This article presents a review of the innovation journalism initiative so far. The novel concepts of innovation journalism, attention work and innovation communication systems are present

ed and put into context, explaining why journalism and communication may be considered important components of the innovation economy, as well as how this may benefit society. The need for a new definition of ‘journalism’ is discussed, suggesting a definition based on the relation between journalism and its audience, rather than on its relation to the medium it uses for communicating with the audience. The role of journalism in the innovation economy is a novel academic research field. The rationale for this research is presented together with examples of plausible research topics. Innovation journalism initiatives are emerging in several places around the world. The seminal VINNOVA Stanford initiative at Stanford University is presented together with the national initiatives in Sweden, Finland, Slovenia, Pakistan, Mexico, and the EU.

IJ-5 THE FIFTH CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION JOURNALISM

2008-07-01T09:52:00.000-07:00

Innovation Journalism Vol.5 No.1 July 1 2008
IJ-5, the Fifth Conference on Innovation Journalism took place at Stanford University 21-23 May 2008. The conference materials have since then been available on the conference website. They can as from now also be referred to through the Innovation Journalism Publication Series.

IJ-4, THE FOURTH CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION JOURNALISM

2007-07-01T17:16:00.000-07:00

Innovation Journalism Vol.4 No.3, July 1 2007

IJ-4, the Fourth Conference on Innovation Journalism took place at Stanford University 21-23 May 2007. The conference materials have since then been available on the conference website. They can as from now also be referred to through the Innovation Journalism Publication Series.

THE INNOVATION JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM AT STANFORD 2007 - KICKOFF WORKSHOP PROGRAM

2007-04-13T11:05:00.000-07:00

Innovation Journalism Vol.4 No.1, Apr 13 2007

The final program from the kickoff workshop for the Innovation Journalism Fellowship Program at Stanford Feb 26- Mar 2 2007.

PR AND THE INNOVATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

2006-10-25T11:04:00.000-07:00

Innovation Journalism Vol.3 No.5 Oct 25 2006

By David Nordfors.

Public relations in innovation companies can strengthen brand value by communicating innovation processes and add value to innovation by developing narratives for new products and services in parallel with technological and business development. The development of innovation communication and PR will benefit from the emergence of independent innovation journalism. Some new concepts are introduced: Communicators and journalists can be seen as “attention workers”, driving the “innovation communication system”, a subset of the innovation system, focusing on the flows of communication and attention. (This essay was written for the 10th SKOJ conference in Slovenia.)

INNOVATION JOURNALISM GETS ACADEMIC RESEARCH FUNDING

2006-10-04T11:03:00.000-07:00

News Flash Oct 4 2006

How does journalism link innovation with the public interest? How do innovation ecosystems engage journalists? These questions are at the heart of a research initiative recently funded by VINNOVA, the Swedish Government Agency for Innovation Systems. The project will set the agenda for an international research workshop scheduled for February 2007 at Stanford University. The academic research study is led by Professor Marc Ventresca of Oxford University (PI, coordinator) and Dr. David Nordfors at Stanford University and VINNOVA (Program Director), with Dr. Turo Uskali from the University of Jyväskylä, visiting scholar in innovation journalism at Stanford, and Dr. Antti Ainamo at the Helsinki School of Business. The group of researchers standing behind the mission, which includes faculty and expert practitioners from leading U.S. and European universities, convened in April 2006 for a workshop hosted by the Innovation Journalism program run by Stanford and VINNOVA. They recently co-published an essay identifying ‘Innovation Journalism’ as a useful theme through which to explore the interplay of journalism in innovation ecosystems .

THE THIRD CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION JOURNALISM - PROCEEDINGS

2006-05-29T17:11:00.000-07:00

Innovation Journalism Vol.3 No.4, May 29 2006

The conference papers presented at The Third Conference on Innovation Journalism, April 5-7 2006 at Stanford University.

THE THIRD CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION JOURNALISM - PROGRAM/ABSTRACTS/BIOS

2006-05-29T16:27:00.000-07:00

Innovation Journalism Vol.3 No.3, May 29 2006

The final conference program of the Third Conference on Innovation Journalism, as it happened on April 5-7 2006 at Stanford University. Includes abstracts of presentations and links to powerpoint presentations, archived on the IJ website. Includes also bios of the 88 participating speakers and panellists.

INNOVATION JOURNALISM: TOWARDS RESEARCH ON THE INTERPLAY OF JOURNALISM IN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS

2006-05-28T16:26:00.000-07:00

Innovation Journalism Vol.3 No.2, May 28 2006

By D.Nordfors, M. Ventresca, A. Hargadon, T. Uskali, A. Ainamo, S. Jonsson, S. Grodal, A. Weinstein, M. Kennedy, P. Svensson, F. Reid.

This essay suggests Innovation Journalism as a useful theme through which to explore the interplay of journalism in innovation ecosystems. This involves investigating how journalism plays a part in connecting innovation with public interests and how innovation processes and innovation ecosystems interact with public attention, with news media as an actor. It may also be of interest to study in which ways journalists cover innovation processes and innovation ecosystems, the incentives that may drive innovation journalism and how news organizations may be organized to perform the task. We outline examples of research project topics to illustrate how this approach can inform studies of innovation, studies of journalism as practice, and possible scipes for the research theme.

THE FUTURE OF INNOVATION JOURNALISM DVD NOW AVAILABLE ON GOOGLE VIDEO

2006-04-02T16:24:00.000-07:00

News Flash Apr 2 2006

The DVD “The Future of Innovation Journalism” (Innovation Journalism Vol.2 No.12) is now available on Google Video. This DVD presents a roundtable discussion about the future of journalism with the “Father of the Internet” Vint Cerf (Google /ICANN), Whitfield Diffie (Sun Microsystems), Amy Bernstein (Business 2.0), Lee Bruno (Red Herring), Dan Gillmor (Bayosphere), Anders Lotsson (Computer Sweden), Frances Mann-Craik (Tornado Insider, Addison Marketing), Harry McCracken (PC World), Tony Perkins (AlwayOn Network), Jan Sandred (Biotech Sweden), Richard Allan Horning (Tomlinson Zisko LLP), Charles Wessner (National Academies) and Stig Hagström (Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning). Producer and moderator: David Nordfors (Stanford / VINNOVA)

INTRODUCING THE 2006 INNOVATION JOURNALISM FELLOWS

2006-02-14T16:23:00.000-08:00

News Flash Feb 14 2006

The fellows represent influential newsrooms in Sweden and Finland: Helsingin Sanomat, Affärsvärlden, Aftonbladet, Elektroniktidningen, Entreprenör, Göteborgsposten and Rapidus. The Innovation Journalism Fellows are this year being hosted by The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Red Herring, Business 2.0, CNET News.com, PC World and the San Francisco Chronicle.

THE INNOVATION JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM AT STANFORD 2006 - KICKOFF WORKSHOP PROGRAM

2006-02-13T16:22:00.000-08:00

Innovation Journalism Vol.3 No.1, Feb 13 2006

The final program from the kickoff workshop for the Innovation Journalism Fellowship Program at Stanford Feb 6-10 2006.

THE THIRD CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION JOURNALISM. STANFORD UNIVERSITY 5-7 APRIL 2006.

2006-01-18T16:21:00.000-08:00

News Flash Jan 18 2006

Invitation for papers and participants to The Third Conference on Innovation Journalism at Stanford University, April 5-7, 2006. Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist of Google, and the “father of the Internet” will be the opening speaker.

We have already enlisted speakers and delegations from the U.S., Sweden, Finland, Pakistan, Germany, Taiwan and Slovenia. The main conference themes include: * Practicing Innovation Journalism * Publishing Innovation Journalism * The Role of Journalism in Innovation Systems * Innovation Communication * International Initiatives for Innovation Journalism * The Future of Innovation Journalism and the Emergence of New News Media. Registrations to the conference can be made via the Internet. See the News Flash for details.

PAKISTAN JOINS INNOVATION JOURNALISM PROGRAM AT STANFORD

2005-11-11T16:20:00.000-08:00

News Flash Nov 11 2005

Omar Ayub Khan, Pakistan’s Minister of State for Finance, in his keynote address at The Competitiveness Institute 8th Annual Conference in Hong Kong, announced that Pakistan is joining the Innovation Journalism Program at Stanford University. Innovation Journalism Fellows from Pakistan will participate in the program starting in 2006. The Pakistani Innovation Journalism Program will be organized by the Pakistan Competitiveness Support Fund.

THE FUTURE OF INNOVATION JOURNALISM - DVD - 120 MINUTES - ALL REGIONS

2005-10-31T15:50:00.000-08:00

Innovation Journalism Vol.2 No.12, Oct 31 2005

By David Nordfors.

It’s innovation time for journalism! Traditional news media are being challenged by innovative sources of news on the Internet, such as blogospheres, or citizen journalism. Traditional journalism struggles when covering innovation as a topic. While innovation pivots society it is not a key news word. Traditional news beats – such as technology, business or politics – chop up innovation processes to fit their news slots, missing the bigger picture.

How can journalism report on innovation, following the cross-boundary interactions driving today’s society? Who can do it? This DVD presents a roundtable discussion about the future of journalism with the “father of the Internet” Vint Cerf (Google /ICANN), Whitfield Diffie (Sun Microsystems), Amy Bernstein (Business 2.0), Lee Bruno (Red Herring), Dan Gillmor (Bayosphere), Anders Lotsson (Computer Sweden), Frances Mann-Craik (Tornado Insider, Addison Marketing), Harry McCracken (PC World), Tony Perkins (AlwayOn Network), Jan Sandred (Biotech Sweden), Richard Allan Horning (Tomlinson Zisko LLP), Charles Wessner (National Academies) and Stig Hagström (Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning). Producer and moderator: David Nordfors (Stanford / VINNOVA)

See a sample from the DVD (click here for Quicktime movie)

The DVD can be ordered from Amazon.com or VINNOVA (UPC 837101387)

FINLAND LAUNCHES NATIONAL INNOVATION JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

2005-10-28T15:49:00.000-07:00

News Flash Oct 28 2005

Finland has launched a National Innovation Journalism Fellowship Program. It has nominated three people to the Innovation Journalism program at Stanford.