https://partnews.mit.edu/2016/02/09/interactive-graphics-that-invite-participation/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:21:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 https://partnews.mit.edu/2016/02/09/interactive-graphics-that-invite-participation/#comment-150073 Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:21:02 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=7564#comment-150073 I love these interactive graphics, especially the draw your guess. What’s the technology behind that? (i.e. how do I create my own?)

]]> https://partnews.mit.edu/2016/02/09/interactive-graphics-that-invite-participation/#comment-150042 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:50:49 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=7564#comment-150042 Last year in Israel, I went to a few protests that became quite violent. I filmed and took pictures with my phone – sometimes for reporting, sometime just to post on social media – but was always afraid that the people I was filming (police and right-wing thugs) will see me filming and try to snatch my phone.
That’s why I was very excited to learn about apps that allow journalists and citizen journalists to film with their phone and then send the film to Youtube or to their email automatically.
Some of the tools available are CopWatch by Darren Batista, which allows you to upload the video and sends an alert to Canadian group “Network for the Elimination of Police Violence”, and CA Justice by ACLU which uploads the videos to their website. My life here have been pretty peaceful so I didn’t get a chance to make use of the apps yet, but they are a very important step in allowing reporters and citizen journalists to document violence, from police or other sources.

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