SenseMaker workshop: exploring the potential for sensor journalism 

Media Innovation Studio

The SenseMaker project is exploring how sensors can be used for journalism and community storytelling. We’re aiming to create a range of sensors that detect and capture data that can be used to create editorial content and impact. To make this happen, over the next few months, we will be co-designing bespoke sensors with journalists, storytellers and members of the pubic. This workshop will bring together a range of editorial, technology and community expertise to generate key insights of what sensors – and the data they generate - could be of most use to those in the room.
SenseMaker - a collaboration between Media Innovation Studio and the Engineering Innovation Centre at UCLan (the University of Central Lancashire) and the Manchester Evening News – will then take the ideas and insights from the workshop and create sensors to be deployed by MEN journalists and others over the next few months.
 
Who can sign up?
If you’re interested in journalism, data, sensors or storytelling in innovative ways, this workshop is for you.
 
Can you tell me more about the project?
SenseMaker is working in Manchester with journalists and community members to ‘co-create’ sensor packs for journalism, using the data the sensors provide to help prompt or create news stories. The sensors could capture or monitor a wide variety of data such as air pollution or air quality, biometric or health data, image analysis, or environmental information like dampness or noise. We will know which sensors are most relevant as we work with people over the project and find out what their needs are.
We’re funded by the Google Digital News Initiative.
 
How will the sensors help journalism?
The packs will help journalists and community members by creating new data sets and information that help journalists and citizens uncover new stories and create new news angles by focussing on key issues. Journalists at the Manchester Evening News will then be able to follow these leads or use the data in their stories. For example, we may create air pollution monitors that allow journalists to better understand poor air quality, or microphones that monitor excessive noise levels. Stories will appear in the Manchester Evening News, and things may change as a result. As the sensors are ‘co-created’, it is hoped that the data will be relevant, useful and timely. The research project will find out if this is the case. 
To access more information, <A HREF="https://www.dropbox.com/s/cak4quawqcgo6ps/Information%20sheet%20-%20SenseMaker.pdf?dl=0" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">please take a look at our information sheet</A>.

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