Category: Web
Documentaries are no longer passive experiences that viewers sit back and watch from start to finish. New approaches are making the user an active a participant and using alternate forms of navigation to add more context to stories.
Once a morning ritual and read over breakfast or on the commute to work, newspapers have found their “what’s happening today?” role replaced by websites and tv networks offering a continuous stream of news for free. How are they adjusting to this shifting demand?
We all know that data can tell different stories depending on how you spin it and the way data is visually represented can lead to assumptions by the viewer.
Google have kept pushing ahead in their mission to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” this time with visualisations of datasets in their search results pages.
With Swine flu so prevalent in the world news at the moment, its only natural that there be some maps featured on news sites telling how the virus has spread across the globe.
Meanwhile…
At the end of a down-beat article on the accelerating decline in circulation of the top 25 US newspapers (7% year on year) the New York Times adds a short final paragraph:
Meanwhile, the audience for newspaper Web sites continues to grow. In the first quarter of 2009, newspaper Web sites attracted more than 73 million unique visitors each month, on average, according to an analysis by Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America. That is a 10.5 percent increase from the first quarter of 2008.