General
Final set of public project reports (Volume 1)
May 5, 2017 | Jochen Spangenberg
The REVEAL project formally ended on 31 December 2016. Currently, we are wrapping up our activities. This includes making available the final set of public project deliverables (project reports, including code and all sorts of other information about project work). The first set is now available.
Happy holidays and all the best for 2017!
December 22, 2016 | Jochen Spangenberg
Another year is almost over. REVEAL, too, is nearing its formal end on 31 December 2016. For now, team REVEAL would like to wish all of you and your families a peaceful holiday season and all the very best for a healthy, happy and exciting 2017. Read More
Rules, laws, implications …
December 1, 2016 | Jochen Spangenberg
Dealing with and using content residing in social networks for newsgathering, reporting, opinion-forming, or business intelligence, is one thing. Legal aspects and implications are another matter. What is allowed (under which conditions), what isn’t? What are the rules and guidelines? And what is at stake? Here are some further thoughts on the matter by our legal experts from KU Leuven’s Centre for IT & IP Law.
Observational study – how do journalists really verify UGC?
August 19, 2016 | Stuart Middleton
The importance of user generated content (UGC) in journalism is growing relentlessly [1] [2] [3]. Smartphones have high quality cameras able to take excellent eyewitness images, record videos of events as they happen and even stream videos in real-time. Eyewitness media will often appear on Social Networks before any mention occurs on mainstream news channels. Read More
Preview: REVEAL at DW Global Media Forum
May 26, 2016 | Jochen Spangenberg
From 13-15 June 2016 you can meet us at Deutsche Welle’s Global Media Forum (GMF) in Bonn, Germany. We will be doing hands-on verification and demoing project outcomes over the course of the entire event. Plus: we will participate in a panel discussing various aspects of verification and user-generated content. Hope to see you there! Read More
Best Wishes to All!
December 22, 2015 | Jochen Spangenberg
Team REVEAL wishes all our readers, followers, project participants, friends and families and all those of you interested in verification issues of eyewitness media a