This week has been a week of work, and not as much discussions as the previous weeks. We have mainly been working with the book chapter that we will submit on tuesday next week. Last week we decided all headlines and what we should write under every headline. We divided some of the writing and created an internal deadline for when we should be finished with our own part respectively. We set the deadline to friday (tomorrow). The other parts that we didn’t divide was done during meetings this week. So our plan was to have a finished chapter on friday and that everyone read it through and write notes about things we should change. We then meet next monday and finish everything.
We have started to discuss the movie that we will have in our final presentation. We have discussed possible scenarios that we might capture and the technology difficulties and how to do it smoothly.
About the validation that you were not convinced about. Yes it is a two step validation. It is a validation method that we have copied from youtube and other social medias. In a sense we are a news company, but we are also very similar to youtube. We can’t have the same validation as regular news companies since we will have to process a lot of news since we are crowdsourced. So in order for us to process that much content we had to look at validation models used by services with similar problems and by the validation in two steps is probably the easiest solution. The users report content that is not appropriate and then we, as a second step, validate only the content that has been reported. We will however provide some guidelines for how the news should be presented and things that the providers of the news should think about. And regarding false news, the community will report suspicious news and then we validate it. The big benefit of relying on the community is that it save us a lot of time.
Sounds good to me. I am ok with your explanation of the validation. Sounds like you have that part covered. Thanks for clarifying!
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