Saturday, 29 August 2015

W5 -- Idea Brainstorming

From the last workshop, we decided our three concept ideas: the breaking news map, "free to comment" journalistic communication channel and news trend map.

However, we recognised a problem that the first and last ideas are clashing with other groups. Because of this reason, the group starts brainstorm an final idea as our team project.




Firstly, we thought about the real journalism problem: bias between publishers and different media. And in a traditional context, readers got news from certain fixed media and sources -- media-oriented. The position of these sources for reported issues will guide readers minds. And then, a misunderstand for the issue start growing up. Therefore, if reverse the traditional relationship between readers and issues themsevles, we can get a new view for this problem -- issue-oriented. Under this circumstance, readers focus on different issues. They can get different reports from different media for one issue. Even if media have their own position for one issue, the bias will be eliminated to some extent after readers can have an overview for the whole things.

Users always read articles from one channel.


But we can create a new platform to allow users to read different point of views from different publishers.


Secondly, we tried to refine Nicholas's idea, combining Danmuka(Japanse, means flowing comments), rating system and journals into a single app, and also offering an entirely new way for users to participate, comment and release their point of views in a specific news.

In this workshop we finalised the concept.
  • putting multiple articles from publishers together in one platform, having a view in one place
  • rank view: followed by article
  • timeline view: articles are sorted by time
  • click on the article -- flowing comments -- allow users to comment on the news
  • rating, verifying quality (importance, impactful -- does it impact you?) of the source
  • users can view articles by its ranking or publish time
Ranking view

Time-based. When users click to view a article, it turns to a article page and those live comments will be displayed at the same time.


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