Emerging from the shadows of a new medium: the web documentary
The web documentary, even if it is difficult to define , seems above all to be an emerging journalistic or authorial object which can have different formats: from very short (4 to 5 minutes) to very long with a navigation system on a website as explained by Lucas Menget, senior reporter for France 24 and initiator of the web documentary prize awarded for the first time at the “Visa” photojournalism festival in 2009, in his interview by Webdocu.fr (formerly linterview.fr). The initiative for the creation of webdocs would come from three different types of content creator: photojournalists, documentary filmmakers or artists. Thus, we could divide webdocumentaries into two groups based on their director: author webdocs and journalistic webdocs. Without a doubt, documentary filmmakers and (photo)journalists do not have the same approach, even if they use identical media. Documentary filmmakers explore reality from their (author's) point of view, while (photo)journalists analyze and transmi …
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The future of advertisers on Facebook
For the aperitif this week, we welcome Jean-Hugues Roy, former journalist at Radio-Canada and professor at UQAM, to discuss the recent tremors that have hit the web giant Facebook and the potential repercussions on the decisions of advertisers.
Infopresse360 Day on Web Analytics: Summary of Jacques Warren's conference
Jacques Warren was commissioned to introduce Web analytics (WA) to the people in the room. He asks very simple questions, but how fundamental.