Varadzinová, Kamila (2014) An introduction to voting advice applications (VAA) and their potential influence and effects. POLIS: journalism and society at the LSE (16 Sep 2014). Website.
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Voting Advice Applications are digital devices that try to help citizens think about how they might decide to vote in an election. They might be websites, apps or any other online format that you could access via a desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile connected device. They are a niche digital product but they also represent a bigger question for journalism in the Internet age: how can media organisations use the new technology to help the citizen cope with information overload to make better choices for themselves and for society? VAAs are difficult to get right. There are the technical aspects but there are also editorial problems about balance, accuracy and fairness. Even if they work, will they make a difference? This series of articles will not answer all those questions. But as more people try to use VAAs we hope that this research will give some pointers towards best practice and innovation and help facilitate a debate about their use. The research was carried out by Kamila Varadzinová from Czech Radio as part of a Polis/EBU (European Broadcasting Union) Fellowship. Find out more about the fellowship here.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2017 09:43 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 14:05 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/76934 |
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