Newstrust: Media Literacy Through Collaborative News Review
Newstrust Beta is an interesting offering in community/P2P news filtering. The idea is that a community of peers rates a story, not just on popolarity, but also on the quality of the story, and the trustworthiness of the sources. Anyone can review news for Newstrust, and they look at these factors in their reviews:
- Recommendation : Is it a good story?
- Trust: Do you trust this publication?
- Information: Is this story informative?
- Fairness: Is this story fair?
- Sources: Is this story well sourced?
- Context: Does this story show the “big picture”?
(Users also have the option of writing their own comments at the bottom
of the review).
Newstrust gives users some useful guidlines for analyzing based on the above factors in the Reviewer FAQ. This depth of community-aggregated analysis is actually quite groundbreaking. (It would be neat to see the Newstrust data exportable to become part of OverlayWeb applications that is present while looking at news sites.)
December 12th, 2006 at 4:00 am
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