Montage Crowdsources War Reporting with Activist Footage
Alyson Wyers — April 29, 2016 — Tech
References: montage.storyful & psfk
A collaborative effort between a social media news aggregator and a tech incubator resulted in a crowdsourcing endeavor to aid journalists with war reporting. Storyful and Jigsaw (formerly Google Ideas) partnered to launch Montage -- a platform that "facilitates the process of building projects using the eyewitness accounts from across the globe, helping to tap into the power of activist footage."
Montage improves war reporting with a video library where reporters and human rights organizations can, in real time, annotate, archive and geo-tag videos. This encourages increased collaboration between team members and easily includes translators and experts. Videos are represented as pins on a map, which helps war correspondents to visualize issues and even realize patterns occurring. Therefore, users can more readily analyze, curate, find and share relevant YouTube videos.
Montage improves war reporting with a video library where reporters and human rights organizations can, in real time, annotate, archive and geo-tag videos. This encourages increased collaboration between team members and easily includes translators and experts. Videos are represented as pins on a map, which helps war correspondents to visualize issues and even realize patterns occurring. Therefore, users can more readily analyze, curate, find and share relevant YouTube videos.
Trend Themes
1. Crowdsourced Journalism - Platforms that enable crowdsourcing journalism and other mediums of content can challenge traditional media channels.
2. Collaborative Video Curation - Video curation tools that permit crowdsourced annotations, archiving and geo-tagging like Montage can foster an inclusive and shared experience.
3. Activist Footage Integration - Platforms that integrate activist footage in war reporting like Montage can provide human rights organizations with new ways of raising awareness and accountability.
Industry Implications
1. Journalism - Crowdsourcing tools and platforms that transform traditional journalism models can engender deeper civic engagement and challenge the democratic function of journalism.
2. Human Rights - Access to visual evidence can become more democratic with the integration of emerging technologies that enable the creation of bottom-up archives such as Montage.
3. Tech Incubation - Tech incubators can foster innovation by fostering collaboration between technology and media and incentivizing startups to find innovative solutions to traditional problems.
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