iSchool Capstone

Symposia - A Bird's Eye Perspective of the News

Project tags:

information literacy

mobile or web development

social media

Project poster

Our project is a bold undertaking that seeks to combat the advent of over-personalization of news feeds and the inability to see the “bigger” picture within news media. These issues can create echo chambers which lead to increased partisanship and the general spread of misinformation. We created a web application that consolidates the news from different outlets to offer a more in depth analysis of the news media. Through this, we provide our users with conceptual visualizations of a developing story, while allowing users to hone in on topics that interest them and allowing for balanced viewpoints amongst these topics.

Project participants:

Jonathan Chuang

Informatics

Aman Arya

Informatics

Leandro Solidum

Informatics

Thejas Vidyasagar

Informatics