Content Curation

“Who is the “curator”, that bizarre figure who has recently appeared in lots of articles dealing with the promotion of journalistic (or marketing) content? A curator is basically someone who takes an inordinate mass of material, and turns chaos into order, or in more recent slang, turns “noise into signal”. With the rise of social media platforms and the flood of atomized content coming from users, content curation now plays a central role in how news stories are created by newsrooms and then delivered to an audience.

Without giving up their traditional skills, journalists are becoming more and more information “managers”.  They are behaving like human filters which due to the absence of boundaries (i.e. space limitations, like television's airtime or newspapers’ pages) typical of the digital world, verify and add context to what user-generated content they think to be relevant, and feed it onto Web pages or mobile applications.

Thanks to the rise of new social media curation platforms, the same role can be played by independent professionals (whether journalists or amateurs), who are “independent storytellers”. They might be freelancers or amateurs, or they might be working for a news organization, although with such a level of independence and visibility to transform their job into a one-man-show.

This research shows that this increased participation has both its drawbacks and opportunities. For news organisations, one of the dangers is to assume that what you find and hear on social media is the real and only “voice of the crowd”, without taking the time to analyse in more depth other possible points of view. Resources are scarce and this could be a real temptation; but not everybody is on the Internet, especially in developing countries, and even if they are, it should not be taken for granted that they are willing to testify online what's happening in their surroundings.

As for independent storytellers, they could play a double role in the future: supplement, replace or somehow integrate the coverage done by mainstream media; or just take advantage of the new possibilities offered by curation tools just to transform them into propagandistic platforms. To strike a balance, to make use of user-generated content without “being used” by it, it's not an easy task.”

In this chapter I review the legacy of tabloid journalism in the context of digital media and discuss the transition from the strong editorial identity of tabloid newsprint to content curation that is both user-generated and created by paid staff members. Although the terms broadsheet and tabloid stem initially from paper size and format, I rely on this distinction to refer to editorial decisions that define newspapers' journalism standards, setting quality press (broadsheets) apart from popular newspapers (tabloids). I describe the heyday of tabloid journalism in the early twenty-first century, when newspapers shifted toward compact, visually appealing, and commuter-friendly editions featuring fewer stories with fewer words on each page and making space for the use of photography in storytelling. These structural changes to the process of newsmaking are reviewed in the context of the introduction of social networking technologies that once again disrupted newsmaking, with social media audiences behaving differently from the traditional readership of broadsheets and tabloids. I inquire whether entertainment-focused websites like Upworthy and BuzzFeed are positioned to displace the traditional tabloid media by churning out viral content that is mostly short, highly visual, sharable, and mostly accessed through mobile devices. In short, this chapter reviews the key assumptions underlying the opposition between broadsheet and tabloid in the context of digital journalism and offers a discussion on viral news websites and the personalization of news amplified by fragmented networked audiences. The article offers a contribution to the understanding of the world of tabloid journalism in the context of digital media.

This petition argues that erotic comics are an important cultural record of the way in which diverse sexualities are understood and portrayed, and sexual fantasies explored. An Erotic Comics Anglophone Archive (ErotiCAA) will preserve these works for research by scholars in many different disciplines.

One of the biggest problems facing anyone researching pornography/erotica or comics, and therefore doubly so for anyone researching erotic/pornographic comics, is finding and gaining access to primary materials. So we have decided to have a go at establishing an archive in the UK to collect and catalogue English-language porn and erotic comics.

We intend to approach a number of libraries and research institutions to host and/or fund the archive. Persuading them to support us will be a lot easier if we an show that there is a need for this archive, so to help with that we’ve started this petition.

We’ve already got this kick-ass logo designed for us by Alison Lucy Stone and meetings set up with a couple of big libraries. Help us out by signing the petition? And if you’d like to be more involved, please tweet Dr Anna Madill @UKFujoshi or Dr Jude Roberts @tangendentalism - we’d love to hear from you!

L'elaborato riflette sull'evoluzione dell'email marketing a partire dalla trasformazione della sua cultura, analizzandolo dal punto di vista storico e strategico. Il format d'analisi prescelto è la newsletter, specie quella di stampo culturale/progetto personale. L'intento è quello di fotografare lo stato attuale dell'email marketing e le sue prospettive future, partendo da alcune interviste fatte ad esperti del settore e riflettendo sul ruolo delle donne nella rinascita del mezzo. Verranno infatti analizzati tre corpus di newsletter scritte da donne che utilizzano il mezzo per fini no-business, in un allargato panorama mediale nel quale coesistono utilizzi strategici e personali del mezzo email, coerentemente con le logiche delle culture partecipative e del marketing esistenziale.

The use of content curation on digital media is presented and analyzed. Examples classified by categories: retrospective information, latest information, current information and real time information . Se presenta y analiza el uso de la curación de contenidos por los medios digitales, mostrando ejemplos clasificados por la categorías de: información retrospectiva, información reciente, información actual e información en tiempo real.

Hacer periodismo no puede seguir siendo solamente producir contenidos. En una era donde lo que más abunda es la información, el periodista debe asumirse cada vez más como un filtro en vez de ser una fuente más de ruido. El concepto de la curaduría de con-tenidos es valioso porque nos permite revalorar nuestro oficio como un servicio público donde el lector está en el centro. El periodista ya no es el del megáfono, ni el que da voz a los sin voz. Más bien debemos apostar por un periodismo que ordene, jerarquice, filtre y, sobre todo, cure.

Neste trabalho discutimos a importância da curadoria de conteúdo a partir de suas origens, características e aplicações no contexto da comunicação contemporânea e digital. Buscamos ainda compreender o que é, como e onde pode ser aplicada, porque é utilizada e quem é o curador de conteúdo no cenário comunicacional atual.

Palavras-chave: curadoria; conteúdo; comunicação; contemporânea; digital; curador; in- formação.

In this work we discuss the importance of curating content from its origins, characteristics and applications in the context of contemporary and digital communication. We also seek to understand what it is, how and where it can be applied, why it is used and who is the curator of content in the current communicational scenario.

Keywords: curatorship; content; Communication; contemporary; digital; curator; information.

Starting from the observation that Forensic Architecture's video investigations are exhibited widely and in many venues, this paper asks how curatorial approaches already shape the videographic work of the research agency. It discusses practices of comparison, montage and content curation within digital media environments, linking them to Harun Farockis notion of "soft montage". By presenting a close reading of the investigation "Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea, 28 October 2015" (2020) the paper develops the critical figure of "curatorial excess" (kuratorischer Überschuss) with regards to FA's work.

The use of content curation in online journalism is presented and analyzed, noting the novelty is based on three ideas: new communication scenario, new journalistic praxis (creation + curation) and new types of products, analyzing two examples .
Spanish abstract. Se presenta y analiza la aplicación de la curación de contenidos en el periodismo digital, señalando la novedad que representa en base a tres ideas: nuevo escenario comunicativo, nueva praxis periodística (creación + curación) y nuevos tipos de productos, analizándose dos ejemplos.

RobSoC Turistico, por Robotic Social Curation, es una extensión ampliada y aplicada al sector turismo de las investigaciones y experiencias que en CodeSyntax se comenzaron a desarrollar con el proyecto Umap, un intento práctico de obtener inteligencia colectiva del flujo de las redes sociales centrado en el análisis de información intercambiada en el seno de comunidades lingüisticas. Si en Umap el objeto social compartido era el idioma mismo, en Turistic RobSoc el objeto social es el Turismo, y se avanza un paso más en la denominada content curation aplicada al turismo. Así, mediante la aplicación Turistic RobSoc se analizan, filtran y valoran los enlaces que los usuarios comparten, de manera que por un lado la inteligencia colectiva se convierte en información estructurada y por otro de manera automatizada se valoran, seleccionan, editan y comparten los contenidos turísticos que son más pertinentes y relevantes a juicio de la comunidad de expertos en

The application of content curation in the field of Education and School libraries is presented and analyzed. Examples of thematic guides based on products as List.ly, Scoop.it, Pinterest, webblogs, Storify, etc., are discussed.
Spanish abstract. Se presenta y analiza la aplicación de la curación de contenidos en el sector de la Educación y las bibliotecas escolares, mediante ejemplos de guías temáticas basadas en productos como List.ly, Scoop.it, Pinterest, blogs, Storify, etc.

Las nuevas tecnologías, en general, y las TIC, en particular, son un simple instrumento y, como tal, no pueden cambiar la educación por si misma; sin embargo, sí pueden ayudar a repensar, rediseñar o reinventar la actividad docente. Según algunas prestigiosas fuentes del sector de la educación, en el año 2013 se empezarán a mostrar profundos cambios tecnológicos en el sector educativo que permitirán una mejor integración del aprendizaje con la vida cotidiana y con las herramientas digitales que ya forman parte inherente de ésta. La recopilación de contenidos (content curation) se prevé clave en la educación ya que cada vez hay más contenido digital, multiformato, multilingüe y de calidad diversa. Esto implicará, a buen seguro, que los docentes deban ampliar su rol de simples bibliotecarios-documentalistas y se vean forzados a asumir nuevas competencias como las de clasificar los contenidos educativos existentes (en Internet o locales); para, con posterioridad, presentarlos de una forma organizada y significativa para un determinado objetivo de aprendizaje (sin olvidar, por supuesto, el enseñar a los estudiantes cómo navegar en Internet de manera segura y/o como buscar información de calidad en fuentes fiables). Analizaremos el papel reservado al content curator (también conocido como curador de contenidos o intermediario de conocimiento). Y, por último, veremos como en la actualidad este rol lo desempeñan, en menor manera, aplicaciones como ApSIC Xbench; una aplicación que permiten trabajar con múltiples fuentes de referencia (locales o en línea), multiformato, multilingües, e incluso establecer prioridades de uso en función de su calidad.

Background: Open Access (OA) is a mode of publication and distribution of research literature that removes the limitations such as payments, copyright. The impact of OA is clear and evident. Research accelerated to a significant amount due to OA. But the OA use is not same across the board. The adaption and use of OA is based on the awareness and attitude towards OA.
Objectives: This study aims to identify how well that teaching community working in higher education institutions in Tamil Nadu, know about the open access model, OA licensing terms, OA tools and their attitude towards open access model.
Methods: Survey design was used to conduct the study and a structured questionnaire is used to collect data. Convenience sampling method is adopted for the study. Data collected were organized in Excel and analyzed by using SPSS PASW 18. Cronbach’s alpha is used to check the internal reliability of the attitude items. Frequencies and percentages were used to identify the teaching staffs’ awareness level and attitude towards OA. ANOVA and t-test were used to check the statistical relationship between variables.
Results: A total 300 questionnaires were distributed randomly in five higher education institutions in Tamil Nadu and 121 teaching staffs were responded. The top most open access literacy tool used by the teaching staff was Journals and least was E-discussion websites. The top most open access repository used by the teaching staff was Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and least was National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). Majority of the teaching staff are motivated to take full advantage of OA journals and they are of 65.3%. Around 57.9% of the teaching staff agreed on that they understand the
licensing terms in OA. Around 68.6% of the teaching staff used to access open access publications. 43% of teaching staff denoted that the IT tools, facilities provided to open access in their institution was not satisfactory. 55.4% of teaching staff mentioned that their friends and colleagues recognize open access publications. Teaching staffs’ attitude towards open access doesn’t have any statistical relationship with teaching staffs’ individual characteristics and their experience in teaching, research and publishing.
Conclusion: The study results help the academic libraries, institutions, higher education system, and open access publishers to ascertain the facts and take required steps to promote and strengthen the OA use among the academic community.

This. Reader was launched in 2014 as a "digital shelf" for managing content -- members could only share one link per day. By 2016, the app had shuttered. What happened? This paper explores the answer to that question, and considers whether it's possible to build an online community built on scarcity, rather than abundance.

Resumen Frente a la sobreabundancia de información y la selección automática realizada por los algoritmos ha na­ cido un nuevo movimiento denominado content curation, que aboga por la selección filtrado y caracte­ rización de los contenidos ajenos para poner orden en el caos informativo. En este trabajo se delimita la curaduría periodística, sus funciones y tareas. Se comienza por adoptar los términos de curaduría y cu­ rador, rechazando el de curación de contenidos. Se estudian las funciones de la curaduría y si esta acti­ vidad puede sustituir al periodismo. Se desglosan las tareas, herramientas y productos de la curaduría periodística. Cuestión central es si la curaduría periodística puede reconstruir el espacio público frag­ mentado en una miríada de conversaciones. Se concluye que la curaduría es una función que sumadas al reporterismo y a la edición tradicional configuran el nuevo periodismo. Y que las tareas de gestión de fuentes institucionales, profesionales y sociales y la interrelación de contenidos profesionales y sociales es un elemento sustancial para la reconstrucción de la conversación pública. Palabras clave: curaduría, periodismo, esfera pública, redes sociales. Journalistic curator, a way to rebuild the public space Abstract The content curation has born to face information overload and as an alternative to automatic selection by the algorithms. This new movement defends filtering selection and characterization of external con­ tents in order to bring order out of information chaos. In this paper it is developed the concept of jour­ nalistic curation, its functions and tasks. It begins by adopting in Spanish the terms of curaduría and curador, rejecting the term curation of contents. It is studied the functions of curation and whether this activity can replace journalism. Tasks, tools and products of journalistic curation are developed in the paper. The central question is whether the journalistic curation can reconstruct the public space frag­ mented into a myriad of conversations. It is concluded that curation is a function that added to the tradi­ tional reporting and edition configure the new journalism. Managing institutional, professional and social sources and the interrelationship of professional and social content is a substantial element for the re­ construction of public conversation.

El objetivo de este trabajo es describir la importancia de la curación de contenidos como
herramienta para el desarrollo de competencias digitales requeridas en actividades de
investigación en estudiantes de educación superior, particularmente como una habilidad
para soportar el proceso de búsqueda, filtrado y organización de información obtenida a
través de Internet. La metodología utilizada es revisión de literatura y análisis
exploratorio. Los principales beneficios que se identifican en la utilización de dichas
herramientas son: obtener y clasificar información obtenida a través de Internet, facilitar el
proceso de búsqueda y selección de contenido en Internet y ser un medio para vincularse
con personas que comparten intereses investigativos similares.
Palabras clave: curación de contenidos, competencias digitales, conocimiento
socialmente producido
Development of Digital Skills for Research Activities. Case: Content Curation
Abstract
The objective of this article is to describe the importance of content curation as a tool to
support the development of digital skills for research purposes in higher education,
specifically as an ability to provide support to the process of searching, filtering and
organizing information obtained through the Internet. The methodology is mainly based on
literature review and exploratory analysis of content curation web tools. The main
identified benefits in using those tools are: search and classification of socially produced
information; facilitates the process of search and selection of relevant content from
various sources on the Internet, medium that gives the ability to connect with people who
share similar research interests.
Keywords: content curation, digital competences, knowledge socially produced

El modelo teórico de Franco Moretti fundamentado en la distant reading no es solo útil para reflexionar acerca del papel desempeñado por el crítico en la era de los algoritmos y el futuro de la investigación filológica con el auge del posthumanismo, sino además para gestionar la información recabada y realizar un análisis acelerado y sintético del fenómeno literario por medio de la abstracción de datos de alto volumen (big data). Así pues, sobre la base de los planteamientos de Moretti, se propone en este trabajo una lectura distante del panorama de edición de la narrativa española en el año 2019 a través de las gráficas elaboradas ex profeso con los datos obtenidos durante la pesquisa, a fin de ofrecer una visión general de su estado actual en términos de volumen de edición, programación anual de las publicaciones y distribución de los autores según el lugar y año de nacimiento, así como su género.

Franco Moretti’s theoretical model based on the distant reading not only is useful to think about the role played by the critic in the age of the algorithms and the future of the philological research with the rise of the Post-humanism, but also to manage the collected information and carry out an accelerated and synthetic analysis about the literary phenomenon by means of the massive data sets abstraction (big data). Consequently, in the light of Moretti’s approach, in this work we address a distant reading of the Spanish narrative’s edition panorama in the year 2019. Through the graphs generated ex professo from the data gathered during the inquiry, this article aims to bring out a general vision upon the current situation of the Spanish narrative in terms of the number of literary works edited in 2019, the yearly publishing plan and the authors distribution according to the place and the year of birth, as well as their gender.

Content curation, its relationship with big data and the application in the field of libraries is presented and analyzed. Examples of thematic guides based on products as List.ly, Scoop.it, Pinterest, webblogs, Storify, etc., are discussed.
Spanish abstract. Se presenta y analiza la curación de contenidos, su relación con los big data y su aplicación en el campo de las bibliotecas, con ejemplos de guías temáticas basadas en productos como List.ly, Scoop.it, Pinterest, webblogs, Storify, etc.

The application of content curation in the field of academic and research libraries is presented and analyzed. Examples of thematic guides based on products as List.ly, Scoop.it, Pinterest, webblogs, Storify, etc., are discussed.
Spanish abstract: Se presenta y analiza la aplicación de la curación de contenidos en el sector de las bibliotecas académicas y de investigación, mediante ejemplos de guías temáticas basadas en productos como List.ly, Scoop.it, Pinterest, blogs, Storify, etc.
Catalan abstract: Es presenta i analitza l'aplicació de la cura de continguts en el sector de les biblioteques acadèmiques i de recerca, mitjançant exemples de guies temàtiques basades en productes com List.ly, Scoop.it, Pinterest, Blops, Storify, etc.

The word content curation appeared on the Web in 2008 to reflect an emerging practice similar to competitive intelligence in many respects. But at just what point is content curation a new concept? Through a comparative literature analysis, this presentation looks to compare these two practices so often confused.

Este libro es una guía básica sobre la nueva profesión de internet: el content curator, el especialista encargado de diseñar, llevar a cabo y evaluar el sistema de content curation.

El sistema empieza con la búsqueda y selección de información y sigue con la aportación de valor mediante la caracterización y difusión de dicha información, todo ello respondiendo a unos objetivos determinados.

El libro realiza una aproximación al sistema de content curation, tanto desde un punto de vista teórico como práctico, con el objetivo de guiar al content curator y ofrecer un buen punto de partida a cualquier persona interesada en el tema.

Los autores desarrollan el método que han denominado de las 4 S’s de la content curation: search, select, sense making, share.

In our post-truth society, mobilizing “facts” and “evidence” has never been more important. We live in an age that is
paradoxically information rich due to the proliferation of Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs) and information poor due to the spread of misinformation. Academic research outcomes are traditionally disseminated via peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, and in the classroom; however, this research is not often effectively communicated
to both decision makers and the general public(s). There is no perfect way of disseminating research outcomes; however, there are lessons to be learned from curatorial and communication frameworks developed in museums as these institutions have a long history educating and engaging the public. This article explores the new concept of “research curation,” or rather the enhanced dissemination of curated research outcomes to reach diverse audiences. Closing the “gap” between academia
and the public is essential for increasing civic literacy around issues that threaten sustainability. By adapting curatorial and communication methods developed in museums along with ICT models, the practice of “research curation” can be an effective framework for improved dissemination of academic knowledge.

Museum.dià - II Convegno Internazionale di Museologia
Chronos, Kairòs e Aion. Il tempo dei Musei
Museo Nazionale Romano - Terme di Diocleziano
26 - 28 maggio 2016

Comunicare efficacemente col pubblico utilizzando le piattaforme social è attività ormai imprescindibile per ogni museo. E organizzare un presidio della Rete efficiente, che non sia cioè una disomogenea condivisione di link o foto a caso, richiede un concreto impegno di strategia e pianificazione di rubriche, motivi ricorrenti, promozione di specifici eventi in tempi opportunamente calibrati.
La necessità di dedicare molto tempo alla costruzione di questo tipo di relazione col pubblico è destinata però a scontrarsi evidentemente con gli altri impegni del personale museale.
È possibile rendere più fluida la gestione della comunicazione nel flusso del lavoro quotidiano del museo? E come si può organizzare al meglio la presenza online senza sottrarre tempo prezioso alle tradizionali e impellenti attività curatoriali e amministrative?
Questo intervento tecnico ha lo scopo di introdurre l’applicazione di dinamiche di management dei contenuti alla comunicazione istituzionale dei musei, attraverso l’utilizzo di software e tool capaci di migliorare sensibilmente l’esperienza della loro gestione.
Focus quindi sulle attività di pianificazione strategica della presenza online, dall’utilizzo di strumenti specifici come piano e calendario editoriale ai tool di pubblicazione e misurazione dei risultati. Vedremo come impostare obiettivi, target di riferimento, contenuti e canali e come si definiscono il tipo e il numero di aggiornamenti da pubblicare e con quale cadenza, per garantire una distribuzione omogenea e strategica dei contenuti nel corso del tempo.
Spazio, poi, ai metodi di pubblicazione: manuale, all’orario pianificato e sulla piattaforma prescelta (soluzione dispendiosa in termini di tempo e di precisione a lungo termine), o attraverso strumenti di content management disponibili online?
Infine, un’analisi ragionata di questi tool che richiedono un minimo di studio e di pratica ma garantiscono di migliorare in maniera significativa l’esperienza della gestione della comunicazione, poiché consentono di schedulare con precisione tutte le uscite su piattaforme diversificate e forniscono utili strumenti di analisi dell’audience.

Any web 2.0 user has the chance of give some contents, but among millions of emails videos and tweets sent every day, only a little piece of them are valuable, interesting, relevant or useful. To stop the runaway flow of data that can lead to an Information Overload Syndrome, it has appeared a filtering concept called “Content Curation” whose genesis description, development, conceptualization, aims and activities are the main goal to this panel. For that, we are going to explain how that tools works through five examples.