Interaction in Digital News Media

Interaction in Digital News Media

Mario Pérez-Montoro Editor Interaction in Digital News Media From Principles to Practice

Editor Mario Pérez-Montoro Department of Information Science and Media Studies University of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain ISBN 978-3-319-96252-8 ISBN 978-3-319-96253-5 (ebook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96253-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018949313 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: stevanovicigor This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

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Acknowledgements This work has been made possible by funding of the Projects Interactive content and creation in multimedia information communication: audiences, design, systems and styles (CSO2015-64955-C4-2-R, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) and Culture and Digital Contents (2017 SGR 422, AGAUR, Government of Catalonia). vii

Contents 1 Interaction Experience in Digital News Media 1 Mario Pérez-Montoro 2 Content Access, Storytelling, and Interactive Media 9 Pere Freixa 3 Information Visualization in Digital News Media 33 Mario Pérez-Montoro and Xaquín Veira-González 4 Immersive Journalism and Virtual Reality 55 Joan Soler-Adillon and Carles Sora 5 UX Research Methods for Designing Interactive Media 85 Barbara Millet 6 Newsonomics in the Interactive Era: Dimensions of Sustainability in the News Media 115 Alexis Apablaza-Campos, Lluís Codina and Rafael Pedraza-Jiménez 7 Authors Rights and the Media 147 Javier Díaz-Noci ix

x Contents 8 Scientific Production on Interaction in Digital News Media 175 Ernest Abadal and Javier Guallar 9 Interaction in Digital News Media: Trends, Challenges, and Lessons Learned 193 Mario Pérez-Montoro and Pere Freixa Index 203

Notes on Contributors Dr. Ernest Abadal is a Professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Barcelona, Spain. He has several publications on scientific communication and open access. He is principal investigator of the project Open Access to Science in Spain (Spanish R+D Plan) and coordinator of the research group Culture and Digital Contents. Dr. Alexis Apablaza-Campos is an Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Corporate Public Relations, UNIACC University, Chile, where he teaches in the areas of corporate reputation, online journalism, and social media. He is currently researcher of the Doctoral Program of the Department of Communication, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, and collaborator of the DigiDoc Research Group. Dr. Lluís Codina is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, at the School of Communication, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. He is currently the Director of the Master in Social Communication Program at this university. He is member of the Digital Documentation and Interactive Communication Research Group (DigiDoc) and director of its Research Seminar. Dr. Javier Díaz-Noci is a Professor in the Department of Communication, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (Spain), where he teaches subjects related to digital journalism and to research methods in communication. He has been visiting scholar at the universities of Oxford (UK) and Federal of Bahia (Brazil). He has Ph.D. in both History and Law. xi

xii Notes on Contributors Dr. Pere Freixa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University, Spain, specialized on photography, digital image, interaction design, and interactive communication. He has participated, coordinated, and conducted several courses, postgraduate courses, and investigations on digital imaging and interactivity. He is currently Editor-in-chief of academic journal Hipertext.net. Dr. Javier Guallar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Barcelona, Spain, and he is editor of the journal El profesional de la información. His main research topics are content curation, digital journalism, and scientific publication. Dr. Barbara Millet is a User Experience (UX) researcher and educator at the University of Miami. She has 20 years of research and industry experience in product design and UX. Her research interest is in design and evaluation of technology-mediated communications to improve user performance in socio-technical domains. Dr. Rafael Pedraza-Jiménez is an Associate Professor and Serra Húnter fellow in the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University, where he coordinates the DigiDoc Research Group. During his academic career, he has participated and/or led several research projects related to communicative aspects on the Web. He has also published numerous works in international journals and books. Some of its main research interests lie in Digital media, Online journalism, Web quality, Information retrieval, and e-tourism. Dr. Mario Pérez-Montoro is a Professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Barcelona, Spain, where he researches and teaches in the areas of interaction design and information visualization. He is currently the Director of the Ph.D. in Information and Communication Program at this University. Dr. Joan Soler-Adillon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, England, where he teaches on the BA program in Film, Television and Digital Production and on the BA/BSc program in Digital Media Culture & Technology. His current research is focused on digital art, immersive technologies, and on interactive documentary and storytelling.

Notes on Contributors xiii Dr. Carles Sora is a digital media scholar and researcher at Pompeu Fabra University, Department of Communication, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Open Doc Lab, CMS/W, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. He is the director of the digital culture incubator program UPF Starting Lab and also works as media artist and interactive designer. Xaquín Veira-González is a visual journalist, instructor, lecturer, and independent consultant. He has worked at The New York Times, National Geographic, and elmundo.es, and most recently, he was the Editor of the Visuals desk at The Guardian, where he led a 40-person multidisciplinary team of graphics artists, photographers, picture editors, interactive editors, and multimedia producers. He has also collaborated with The Washington Post, United Nations, Google, and the Office for National Statistics.

List of Figures Chapter 5 Fig. 1 Cards partially sorted into pre-determined categories 90 Fig. 2 Partial similarity matrix showing relationship strength between cards 92 Fig. 3 Segment of an open card sort dendrogram showing cards and their hierarchical cluster groupings 93 Fig. 4 Usability testing in the University of Miami UX Laboratory 99 Fig. 5 UX scorecard. Note: Colors not apparent in grayscale print 101 Fig. 6 An eye tracking system from Tobii 105 Fig. 7 Example of a heat map of a cancer clinical trials website showing distribution of eye movements of several participants in the study. Note: Colors not apparent in grayscale print 106 Fig. 8 Example of several participants scan path of eye movement on a cancer clinical trials website. Note: Colors not apparent in grayscale print 107 Chapter 8 Fig. 1 Evolution in number of publications by year 180 Fig. 2 Network of coauthorship 181 Fig. 3 Network of subject areas 188 xv

List of Tables Chapter 3 Table 1 Narrative visualization taxonomy 42 Chapter 8 Table 1 Authors with the highest number of publications on the subject 180 Table 2 Institutions with the highest numbers of publications (n = 770) 182 Table 3 Document type (n = 440) 183 Table 4 Output by language (n = 440) 183 Table 5 Journals with the most published papers (6 texts or more) 184 Table 6 Most cited papers (the first twenty) (n = 440) 185 Table 7 Most commonly used keywords 189 xvii