Shaping the participatory future of the news
The aim of iwitness24 is to not only capture reader content but to make our audience genuinely feel a part of our news-gathering process…This is all about developing a strong, loyal readership base that will stick with us into the future because it feels totally engaged with our newspapers.
Archant
They’re all talking about Citizenside:
It’s a nifty platform, created in partnership with community news organisation Citizenside, with iPhone and Android apps that enable people to send content via smartphones.
Guardian
The website recently launched a system whereby users are rewarded with points for posting videos, commenting and answering polls. As they amass points for covering events, they get promoted from a stringer to a correspondent and eventually are made editor-in-chief of their region.
Wall Street Journal
Rather than give personalized feedback on every single submission—a nearly impossible task—Citizenside uses game mechanics as a quality control process
Columbia Journalism Review
Game Dynamics in Networked News
How to create compelling interactive experiences to attract, motivate and retain a news community.
“At the most basic level, any news operation that wants to survive must attract, motivate and retain a network of active users – whatever its business model. This is precisely what game design is about: creating intrinsically rewarding experiences.“