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Mobile Journalist Toolkit: a field study on producing news articles with a mobile device

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Tero Jokela,

Heli Väätäjä,

Tiina KoponenAuthors Info & Claims

MindTrek '09: Proceedings of the 13th International MindTrek Conference: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era

Pages 45 - 52

https://doi.org/10.1145/1621841.1621851

Published: 30 September 2009 Publication History

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Today's handheld mobile devices with advanced multimedia capabilities and wireless broadband connectivity have emerged as potential new tools for journalists to produce news articles. It is envisioned that they could enable faster, more authentic, and more efficient news production, and many large news producing organizations, including Reuters and BBC, have recently been experimenting with them. In this paper, we present a field study on using mobile devices to produce news articles. During the study, a group of 19 M.A.-level journalism students used the Mobile Journalist Toolkit, a lightweight set of tools for mobile journalist work built around the Nokia N82 camera phone, to produce an online news blog. Our results indicate that while the mobile device cannot completely replace the traditional tools, for some types of journalist tasks they provide major benefits over the traditional tools, and are thus a useful addition to the journalist's toolbox.

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Mobile Journalist Toolkit: a field study on producing news articles with a mobile device
1. Applied computing
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    1. Publishing
  2. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation

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MindTrek '09: Proceedings of the 13th International MindTrek Conference: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era

September 2009

254 pages

ISBN:9781605586335

DOI:10.1145/1621841

Conference Chairs:
Artur Lugmayr
Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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Heljä Franssila
University of Tampere, Finland
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Olli Sotamaa
University of Tampere, Finland
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Pertti Näränen
Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Finland
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Jukka Vanhala
Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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Editors:
Artur Lugmayr,
Heljä Franssila,
Olli Sotamaa,
Pertti Näränen,
Jukka Vanhala

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