Archive for 'information quality'
Videolyzing Pharmaceutical Ads
There are just two countries in the world where Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) advertising is allowed for pharmaceuticals: the US and New Zealand. The ostensible motivation? To educate consumers, to raise awareness of medical conditions, to get people talking to their doctors, or to reduce the stigma associated with certain conditions (e.g. Viagra)
Since the laws changed back [...]
Posted: March 3rd, 2009 under advertising, annotation, fact-checking, information quality, journalism, pharmaceutical, video annotation.
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Videolyzer Alpha Online
Version 0.0.0.1 of Videolyzer is now online! Videolyzer is a tool designed for journalists and bloggers to be able to collaboratively assess the information quality of a video, including its transcript. Information quality involves things like credibility, validity, and comprehensivness among other things. Videolyzer was designed to support the analysis, collection, and sharing of criticisms [...]
Posted: October 19th, 2008 under annotation, citizen journalism, collaborative, collectivism, computational journalism, information quality, journalism, video, video annotation, video interfaces, video tagging.
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Information Quality and Intentionality
My friend Kelly had some questions for me after my proposal last month and I’m finally getting around to thinking about some of them. One question that she had was about how a lot of low quality information (e.g. press releases, advertisements etc.) is not accidentally of low quality, but is rather intentionally biased to [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2008 under information, information quality.
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Misinformation on YouTube
Recently I read an article that I first found on Slashdot and later tracked down to the original from JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) about a content analysis study of videos concerning vaccination on YouTube. Researchers at The University of Toronto took a sample of 153 videos on YouTube by searching for [...]
Posted: December 21st, 2007 under Uncategorized, information quality, video, youtbue.
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