Abstract
Over the past decade, mobile news production has had a growing prevalence and has been established as a new type by modern journalism industry. Journalists understand content capturing and sharing as parts of their role in newsrooms. Mobile journalism (mojo) is an evolving form of reporting in which where people use only a smartphone to create and file stories, and it has been gaining ground during the last decade. This paper aims to examine the difficulties, issues, and challenges in real-world mojo scenarios, analyzing the efficacy of prototype machine-assisted reporting services (MoJo-MATE). A usability evaluation is conducted in quantitative and qualitative terms, paying attention to the media literacy support provided through implemented tools and the proposed collaborations. Students of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, along with postgraduate-level researchers and professional journalists, form the sample for this investigation, which has a two-folded target: To guide the rapid prototyping process for system development and to validate specific hypotheses by answering the corresponding research questions. The results indicate the impact of mobile/on-demand support and training on journalistic practices and the attitudes of future journalists towards specialized technology in the era of constantly evolving digital journalism.
Highlights
During the last decade we have witnessed a rapid and intense advancement of the information and communication technologies (ICTs), which has had a significant impact on the continuous transformation of the digital media landscape [1,2,3,4,5]
We have presented a framework that facilitates the in situ media literacy development of professional journalists and citizen contributors without supplementary training
It contains a terminal side that runs on smartphones and integrates intelligent systems to assist quality content creation, and it contains a server side that allows for cloud collaboration and the interconnection of all newsroom contributors
Summary
During the last decade we have witnessed a rapid and intense advancement of the information and communication technologies (ICTs), which has had a significant impact on the continuous transformation of the digital media landscape [1,2,3,4,5]. The proliferation of mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) and their communicative capabilities have intensified their role in technology-enhanced learning and everyday informatory services [1,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]. In this direction, mobile journalism (mojo) forms a representative example, in which both new tools (i.e., mojo apps for journalists and targeted audience) and learning resources have to be produced, shaped, and adapted to the users’ needs and preferences [14,15,16].
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