Modern Media Discourse Components: A Suite of Solutions to a Profusion of Problems
- 1. Modern Media Discourse Components A Suite of Solutions to a Profusion of Problems
- 2. Introduction
- 3. Introduction
- 6. Background Problem Motivations Introduction
- 7. Background Problem Motivations Introduction Cute photo
- 8. The Players Consumer-commenters Content authors Media publishers
- 9. Consumer-commenters want to be engaged* by consuming high-quality** content*** want to share this content with other consumer-commenters want to respond to this content with their own content don't want to waste time consuming low-quality/"bad"**** content like to be rewarded***** for their content
- 10. … *engaged = informed, enlightened, entertained, challenged? **high-quality/"good" = informative, insightful, entertaining, challenging? agreeable/liked?? ***content = facts, opinions, and other ideas ****low-quality/"bad" = off-topic, inaccurate, obscene, unintelligible, spammy? *****rewarded = with recognition/publicity, reputation, compensation
- 11. Requirements popular feasible Also: unique revolutionary https://drumbeat.org/en-US/challenges/beyond-comment-threads/full
- 12. Assumptions & Approach Not all problems are problems to all There is no single perfect commenting system There are multiple problems, each with multiple components So: provide component solutions!
- 13. Ideas
- 14. Idea Themes Metrics content metrics consumer-commenter metrics Interfaces consumption commenting
- 15. Metrics for Content for Consumer-commenters
- 16. Metrics for Content clearly define metrics for content "goodness" attributes on a 5-point rating scale "badness" flags contextual metrics other meta-data can be considered as metrics: reads, tags, topics, shares, etc. applicable to all content, system wide customizable consumer-commenters determine metric scores
- 17. Metrics for Consumer-commenters based on past interaction with system used for reputation management or personalization reputation, rebooted: based on high-quality interactions default-private normalized better incentivized better privileges better tangibles
- 18. Interfaces & Interactions Logical: How It Works Visual: How It Looks
- 19. How Consuming & Commenting Work modes contexts & interaction rules exposing & collapsing similarity sorting & discovery notifications & alerts
- 20. How Consuming & Commenting Work: Modes allow multimodal commenting & comment consumption email/newsgroup mode live chat comment via SMS comment via phone own your comment: federated publishing/export
- 21. How Consuming & Commenting Work: Contexts & Interaction Rules interaction rules based on moderation-within-a-context: each article is a context, each thread or topic a subcontext can only comment after x mod actions within context can only mod after waiting x seconds can only read more comments after x mod actions
- 22. How Consuming & Commenting Work: Exposing & Collapsing Similarity comments similar to yours, before you post as you type (Google Search) as an explicit preliminary step (Get Satisfaction)
- 23. How Consuming & Commenting Work: Sorting & Discovery avoid persistent personalization boo, “filter bubble” ( http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2071746,00.html ) topic discovery tools as "anti-filters” sorting within a view for content
- 24. How Consuming & Commenting Work: Notifications & Alerts Activity notifications, a la Facebook responses, mentions/citations, follow-up articles & other content, etc. Content alerts, a la Google News topics, keywords, consumer-commenters of explicit interest
- 25. How Consuming & Commenting Looks engaging & intuitive modal visualizations “ pseudorandom sampling” as initial view rethinking anonymity: content vs. source visually connect content with parent connect consumer-commenters with "root" content authors
- 26. How Consuming & Commenting Looks: Engaging & Intuitive Modal Visualizations heatmap for current sitewide activity per-content consensus graphs see NYTimes response graph: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/03/us/20110503-osama-response.html color-coded comments organization by thread, topic, and/or metric
- 27. How Consuming & Commenting Looks: “Pseudorandom Sampling” as Initial View one-at-a-time, pre-ordered, pseudo-random, out-of-context metrically different from each other nothing notably low-quality (according to consensus) Robin Hood/shuffle algo to expose less seen/modded content "contextualization-on-click" to expose the entire subcontext, a la Twitter
- 28. How Consuming & Commenting Looks: Rethinking Anonymity: Content vs. Source authenticate to the system, not the community system-managed ID via some federated open ID management standard and/or CouchSurfing-style identity verification levels & reputation accounting translucency as a compromise between transparency v. anonymity: http://mashable.com/2011/05/19/anonymous-transparent-infographic pseudonymous-by-default same system-generated pseudonym within comment context matters less who said it, more that it is said: http:// www.tumblr.com/tagged/jessica+dovey pseudonymity expires after some time or activity threshold is reached abolish public reputation and comment history focus on the IDEA /content & cited sources, not the commenter if an idea can't stand alone, it is a bad idea shift onus of trust to cited sources: "url or it didn't happen” -Harold C.
- 29. How Consuming & Commenting Looks: Connecting Content with its Parent atomic commenting "lite" more intuitive quoting w/ alternative views/modes content always paired with or linked to context & parent content
- 30. How Consuming & Commenting Looks: Connecting Consumer-commenters with “Root" Content Authors limited-time engagements with authors Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” style realtime chat integrated into your XMPP-capable chat client published, replayable logs occasional moderated debates make it part of the job description
- 31. Ahhh, time’s up Okay, gotta get this online now--