[ddj] Terra Incognita: Call for journalists to participate in our user study

[Catherine D'Ignazio]

Thanks Mark for pointing this out. We are currently reviewing our city
selection for a number of countries (China and Brazil) and it looks like
the original data source we used for population information was not
correct. I appreciate you pointing this out about the UK as well.

If you want to add links about cities that are not on the list (but should
be) for the moment just send those to me manually over email.

Thanks!
Catherine



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On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Mark Woodward <mark.woodward at jpress.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi Catherine
> Would love to contribute to this but just pointing out an issue with the
> cities that are available in the UK.
> Obvious ones have been left off like Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast, Leeds
> while Halton West, Preston and North Shields are not cities and Sheffield
> is on the list twice.
> Is it possible to amend these or can i contribute links for Edinburgh and
> Leeds without them being on your list?
> Mark
>
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> On 4 April 2014 11:09, Catherine D'Ignazio <dignazio at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello all -
>>
>> My name is Catherine D'Ignazio and I'm a researcher at the MIT Center for
>> Civic Media. We are trying to do some experiments in serendipity,
>> difference and online newsreading.
>>
>> One such experiment is a news game and recommendation system called
>> "Terra Incognita: 1000 Cities of the World". It's a browser extension that
>> helps you read alternative news sources (local, alternative, fun or weird
>> information) about the top 1000 cities in the world. It uses automated
>> geoparsing for extracting geography and topic mapping to making bridging
>> recommendations between people and information.
>>
>> We are seeking help in two ways:
>>
>> 1) Submit a city-specific link our database of geographic recommendations
>> -
>> https://terra-incognita.co/1000cities
>> We have plenty of machine-recommended geo-articles but humans are much
>> better!
>>
>> 2) Participants for our user study - Sign up here---
>> https://terra-incognita.co/ -
>> Especially seeking journalists and people that care about international
>> information and public engagement.
>>
>> Thank you for your time!
>> Catherine
>>
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