Rethinking engagement with online news through social and visual co-annotation

Gavin Wood; Kiel Long; Tom Feltwell; Scarlett Rowland; Phillip Brooker; Jamie Mahoney; John Vines; Julie Barnett; Shaun Lawson

doi:10.1145/3173574.3174150

Rethinking engagement with online news through social and visual co-annotation

Gavin Wood, Kiel Long, Tom Feltwell, Scarlett Rowland, Phillip Brooker, Jamie Mahoney, John Vines, Julie Barnett, Shaun Lawson

Department of Psychology

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Abstract

The emergence of fake news, as well as filter bubbles and echo chambers, has precipitated renewed attention upon the ways in which news is consumed, shared and reflected and commented upon. While online news comments sections offer space for pluralist and critical discussion, studies suggest that this rarely occurs. Motivated by common practices of annotating, defacing and scribbling on physical newspapers, we built a mobile app - Newsr - that supports co-annotation, in the form of graffiti, on online news articles, which we evaluated in-the-wild for one month. We report on how the app encouraged participants to reflect upon the act of choosing news stories, whilst promoting exploration, the critique of content, and the exposure of bias within the writing. Our findings highlight how the re-design of interactive online news experiences can facilitate more directed, "in-the-moment" critique of online news stories as well as encourage readers to expand the range of news content they read.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Engage with CHI
Place of Publication	New Yoork, U. S. A.
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Volume	2018-April
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450356206, 9781450356213
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174150
Publication status	Published - 20 Apr 2018
Event	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 21 Apr 2018 → 26 Apr 2018

Conference

Conference	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	21/04/18 → 26/04/18

Bibliographical note

Paper No. 576

Keywords

Graffiti
Online news
Social annotation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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Wood, G., Long, K., Feltwell, T., Rowland, S., Brooker, P., Mahoney, J., Vines, J., Barnett, J., & Lawson, S. (2018). Rethinking engagement with online news through social and visual co-annotation. In CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI (Vol. 2018-April). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174150

Rethinking engagement with online news through social and visual co-annotation. / Wood, Gavin; Long, Kiel; Feltwell, Tom et al.
CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI. Vol. 2018-April New Yoork, U. S. A.: Association for Computing Machinery, 2018.

Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding

Wood, G, Long, K, Feltwell, T, Rowland, S, Brooker, P, Mahoney, J, Vines, J, Barnett, J & Lawson, S 2018, Rethinking engagement with online news through social and visual co-annotation. in CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI. vol. 2018-April, Association for Computing Machinery, New Yoork, U. S. A., 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018, Montreal, Canada, 21/04/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174150

Wood G, Long K, Feltwell T, Rowland S, Brooker P, Mahoney J et al. Rethinking engagement with online news through social and visual co-annotation. In CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI. Vol. 2018-April. New Yoork, U. S. A.: Association for Computing Machinery. 2018 doi: 10.1145/3173574.3174150

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