NewsPad: Designing for Collaborative Storytelling in Neighborhoods
This addresses the need for better tools in citizen journalism for small neighborhoods, but it is incremental as it builds on existing blogging and social media concepts.
The paper tackled the problem of limited capacity and context in local community reporting by introducing NewsPad, a content editor designed for collaborative storytelling, and found that it elicits collaborative story creation in four pilot deployments.
This paper introduces design explorations in neighborhood collaborative storytelling. We focus on blogs and citizen journalism, which have been celebrated as a means to meet the reporting needs of small local communities. These bloggers have limited capacity and social media feeds seldom have the context or readability of news stories. We present NewsPad, a content editor that helps communities create structured stories, collaborate in real time, recruit contributors, and syndicate the editing process. We evaluate NewsPad in four pilot deployments and find that the design elicits collaborative story creation.