Schedule by week including deliverables

Presentation schedule

Locations

• Wednesday meetings are always at Bloomberg Center Room 161.
• Monday meetings rotate, with location noted below for each.

Meetings

Wednesday Jan 24: Democracy, journalism, media, tech: a motivation

Monday Jan 29: General overview, introductions, and interactions

• City-wide Session
• Location: Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY
  

Wednesday Jan 31

• Movie screening: Spotlight
• Location: Cornell Tech 131 (auditorium)
• Special Time 6:30pm
• Mandatory reading: Kiernan, L. Calculating the Work Behind Our Work..

Monday Feb 5: Supporting Journalism with Tech

• City-wide Session
• Location: Columbia University, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall of the Journalism Building. The Journalism Building is located at 2950 Broadway, on the southeast corner of 116 and Broadway, on the Columbia University Campus. You enter the building from the south side. The Lecture Hall is one floor up from the lobby.
• Special guest: Giannina Segnini, Director of the Master of Science Data Journalism Program at the Journalism School at Columbia.
• Deliverable: Reflection: Spotlight due Feb 5 before class.

Wednesday Feb 7: Newsrooms and computational Journalism

• Mandatory reading: Silver, N. What the Fox Knows. Five Thirty Eight. March, 2014.
• Other reading: Cohen, S., Hamilton, J.T. and Turner, F., 2011. Computational journalism. Communications of the ACM, 54(10), pp.66–71. (Needs university access)
• Code sample: Twitter API demo, and Congress / NYTimes API demo

Monday Feb 12: Supporting Journalism with Tech

• City-wide Session
• Location: Columbia University, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall of the Journalism Building (details above)
• Special guests: Craig Silverman (BuzzFeed), Gabe Dance and Nick Confessore (New York Times)

Wednesday Feb 14: Newsroom technologies and Document sharing

• Mandatory reading: LeCompte, C. Automation in the Newsroom
• Other reading: Brehmer, M., Ingram, S., Stray, J., and Munzner, T. Overview: The Design, Adoption, and Analysis of a Visual Document Mining Tool for Investigative Journalists. (Needs university access)
• Remote guest: Aron Pilhofer (DocumentCloud)

Monday Feb 19 NO CLASS: CORNELL BREAK

Wednesday Feb 21: Human computation / crowdsourcing

• Mandatory reading: Andersen, M. Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment
• Other reading: Aitamurto, T. Crowdsourcing as a Knowledge-Search Method in Digital Journalism, Digital Journalism, 2016.
• Other reading: Agapie, E., Teevan, J., Monroy-Hernández, A. Crowdsourcing in the Field: A Case Study Using Local Crowds for Event Reporting.

Monday Feb 26:: Supporting Journalism with Tech

• City-wide Session
• Location: Columbia University, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall of the Journalism Building (details above).

Wednesday Feb 28: Visual Analytics

• Mandatory reading: C. Felix, A. Vikram Pandey, E. Bertini, C. Ornstein and S. Klein. RevEx: Visual Investigative Journalism with A Million Healthcare Reviews. Symposium on Computation + Journalism. 2015.
• Mandatory reading: Ornstein, C. ‘Stay Far, Far Away’ and Other Things Gleaned From Yelp Health Reviews
• Other reading: Diakopoulos, N., Naaman, M., and Kivran-Swaine, F. Diamonds in the rough: Social media visual analytics for journalistic inquiry. In Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2010 IEEE Symposium on, IEEE (2010), 115–122. (Needs university access)
• Other reading: Heer, J. and Shneiderman, B. 2012. Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis. Queue 10, 2, Pages 30 (February 2012) (Needs university access)

Friday-Saturday March 2-3: Hackathon

• Location: NYU Magnet, 2 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn NY 11201, 8th floor
• Friday 4:30pm-9pm
• Saturday 9am-7pm

Monday March 5: Credibility and Misinformation

• City-wide Session
• Location: NYU Magnet, 2 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn NY 11201, 8th floor
• Special guest: Jenny Lee, Credibilty Coalition

Wednesday March 7: The “News” Feed

• Mandatory reading: Pariser, E. The Filter Bubble. Introduction.
• Mandatory reading: Chakrabarti, S. Hard Questions: What Effect Does Social Media Have on Democracy?
• Other reading: Thompson, A. Parallel narratives: Clinton and Trump supporters really don’t listen to each other on Twitter.
• Other reading: Bakshy, E., Messing, S., Adamic, L. Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook. Science 348(6239). 2015.
• Deliverable:: Hackathon 1 report and prototype

Monday March 12: Fake news and information campaigns

• Location: Cornell Tech 131 (Cornell Tech Only)
• Mandatory reading: Wardle, C. Fake news. It’s complicated.
• Other reading: Fourney, A., Racz, M. Z., Ranade, G., Mobius, M., and Horvitz, E., Geographic and Temporal Trends in Fake News Consumption During the 2016 US Presidential Election
• Other reading: Ferrara, E., Varol, O., Davis, C., Menczer, F., and Flammini, A. 2016. The rise of social bots. Commun. ACM 59, 7 (June 2016), 96-104. (Needs university access)

Wednesday March 14: Trust and reputation

• Mandatory reading: Knight Foundation. 10 Reasons Why Americans Don’t Trust the Media
• Other reading: Curry, A., Curry, Jomini Stroud, N. Trust in Online News
• Other reading: Morris, M.R., Counts, S., Hoff, A., Roseway, A. Tweeting is Believing? Understanding Microblog Credibility Perceptions

Monday March 19: Credibility and Misinformation

• City-wide Session
• Location: NYU

Wednesday March 21: SNOW DAY News and Online Communities

Monday March 26: Protecting Journalists and Media Organizations

• City-wide Session
• Location: Cornell Tech 131
• Special guest: David McCraw (New York Times)
• Deliverable: Hackathon 1 final system

Wednesday March 28: NO CLASS

April 2 - April 4: Cornell Spring Break

Monday April 9: Protecting Journalists and Media Organizations

• City-wide Session
• Location: Cornell Tech Bloomberg Center 131
• Special guests: Lucas Dixon (Jigsaw), Maria Salazar-Ferro (CPJ)

Wednesday April 11: Online Abuse and Harassment

• (was: Advanced Computation and Journalism)
• Mandatory reading: McCain, J. Mr. President, stop attacking the press
• Mandatory reading: Lowenthal, T., The Best Defense: Only universal technical security will keep journalists safe
• Other reading: Mahar, K., Zhang, A. X., Karger, D. Squadbox: A Tool to Combat Email Harassment Using Friendsourced Moderation. CHI ‘18.
• Other reading: Wulczyn, E., Thain, N., and Dixon, L. Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale. WWW ‘17. (Needs university access)

Monday April 16: Monetization and Business

• City-wide Session
• Location: New School

Wednesday April 18: News and Online Communities

• Mandatory reading: Marwick, A., Lewis, R. Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online
• Other reading: Chandrasekharan, E., Pavalanathan, U., Srinivasan, A., Glynn, A., Eisenstein, J., Gilbert, E. You Can’t Stay Here: The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech (Needs university access)
• Other reading: Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

Friday-Saturday April 20 and 21: Hackathon

• Details TBD.

Monday April 23: Monetization and Business

• City-wide Session
• Location: New School

Wednesday April 25: Recommender Systems and Personalization

• Mandatory reading Spangher, A. Building the Next New York Times Recommendation Engine
• Other reading: Liu, J., Dolan, P., and Pedersen, E. R. Personalized news recommendation based on click behavior. IUI ‘10. (Needs university access)
• Other reading: Konstan, J. A., Riedl, J. Recommender systems: from algorithms to user experience. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 22, no. 1-2 (2012): 101-123.
• Deliverable: Hackathon 2 report and prototype

Monday April 30: Local News

• City-wide Session
• Location: Bloomberg (details TBD)

Wednesday May 2: Local News

• Mandatory reading: Knibbs, K. Future of Local News
• Other reading: Schwartz, R., Naaman, M., Teodoro, R. Editorial Algorithms: Using Social Media to Discover and Report Local News. Proc. International Conference on Web and Social Media. 2015 (Needs university access)
• Other reading: Magnusson, M., Finnäs, J., Wallentin, L. Finding the news lead in the data haystack: Automated local data journalism using crime data. Proc. Computation + Journalism Symposium. 2016.

Monday May 7: Public Presentations

• City-wide Session
• Location: TBD

Wednesday May 9: Cornell Tech Demos

• Deliverable: Hackathon 2 final system