{"id":9280,"date":"2018-11-06T09:07:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T09:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=9280"},"modified":"2018-11-06T09:07:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T09:07:47","slug":"google-news-lab-visiting-speaker-vincent-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2018\/11\/06\/google-news-lab-visiting-speaker-vincent-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Google News Lab visiting speaker Vincent Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vincent Ryan<\/strong> presented this lecture on Friday 2nd<\/sup> November.\u00a0 It was organised by Miriam Phillips, Lecturer in Journalism and NCTJ Coordinator for the School of Journalism, English & Communication, and although primarily for Journalism students, spare tickets were offered to other staff and students.\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the second time the Google News Lab team (now Google News Initiative<\/a>) has visited BU. \u00a0Vincent gave a fascinating talk on some of the freely available technology tools to utilise when researching and producing news stories.<\/p>\n

The session started with some practical research tips using Google\u2019s advanced search<\/a> techniques (for example, using the syntax \u2018intitle: confidential\u2019 to search for stories) and setting up Google alerts<\/a> for current awareness, which now use AI (artificial intelligence) to identify unique stories and so avoid duplication. \u00a0\u00a0He also flagged Google Scholar<\/a> their database of peer-reviewed articles.<\/p>\n

In this era of fake news, Vincent talked about several resources which can be used to verify photos and videos on the web. \u00a0With Tin eye<\/a> you can upload an image or search by URL to see where images have been used online previously and how they might have been manipulated. \u00a0SunCalc<\/a> is an app that shows the position of the sun on any day at a given location and has been used to verify the authenticity of images. \u00a0For videos, he recommended InVid<\/a> which assesses the reliability of video files; crucial for verifying third party content of breaking news in this age of social media.\u00a0 Other tips were looking for the \u2018verified\u2019 tick on a YouTube video and using Amnesty International\u2019s YouTube DataViewer<\/a> to delve into the meta data behind a YouTube video.<\/p>\n

Vincent talked about the importance of exploiting social media.\u00a0 For example, restricting a Twitter search<\/a> to a geographical area to see what is being tweeted in the vicinity of breaking news.\u00a0 Another geographical tool is geosearchtool.com<\/a> where you can search for videos posted from a specific location.\u00a0 Picodash<\/a> will help you delve into Instagram to discover who is engaging with who; users who posted a particular hashtag or posted from a specific place, users who follow the same accounts (unfortunately this one comes with a one-off fee).\u00a0 Use Who.Is<\/a> to find out the owners of domain names on the internet, or Wayback Machine<\/a> the internet archive where you can go back in time to view historical snapshots of websites.\u00a0 And for a truly honest reflection of what people are searching for on the internet, try Google Trends<\/a>. \u00a0Most searched question in the UK in 2017?\u00a0 \u2019How to make slime\u2019!<\/p>\n

Google also has a dataset search<\/a> to help researchers locate online data that is freely available to use, plus a public data<\/a> search where you can view global statistics such as the World Development Indicators.\u00a0 Then create animated online charts and maps with your statistics using the templates provided by Flourish<\/a>.\u00a0 Other visualisation tools demonstrated were Google maps, Google Earth Pro and My Maps<\/a> where you can create your own map to embed into an article.<\/p>\n

Vincent also discussed immersive environments, like the use of YouTube 360<\/a> via Google Cardboard and Story Spheres<\/a>, a site where you can upload a 360 image and add audio to bring your panoramic image to life (remembering that 360 cameras are available to borrow from the FMC store!).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>He gave a very engaging talk packed with ideas and examples, and lots of ideas to take away.\u00a0 And still to come is Google Fact Checker<\/strong> which will be launching after Christmas.\u00a0 It is hoped that Vincent will become a regular speaker visiting on a yearly basis to give Google\u2019s latest updates.<\/p>\n

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Further links:<\/strong>
\nFirst draft<\/a>\u00a0– using research-based methods to fight mis- and disinformation online
\nInternational Fact-Checking Network<\/a>
\nJournalism 360<\/a> – promoting immersive storytelling in the news
\nProduct hunt<\/a>\u00a0– discover the latest tech tools being launched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vincent Ryan presented this lecture on Friday 2nd November.\u00a0 It was organised by Miriam Phillips, Lecturer in Journalism and NCTJ Coordinator for the School of Journalism, English & Communication, and although primarily for Journalism students, spare tickets were offered to other staff and students.\u00a0 This is the second time the Google News Lab team (now… Read more » about Google News Lab visiting speaker Vincent Ryan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[996,997,998,72],"class_list":["post-9280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tel","tag-google-news-lab","tag-internet-searching","tag-journalism","tag-tel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9280"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9290,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280\/revisions\/9290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}