John Udell lays out how Hypothes.is could become a big time tool for public citizen empowerment.
Annotating TV news – Hypothesis
I have already suggested to the online news program, The Young Turks (TYT), that they adopt this for their own broadcasts.
Annotating TV news – Hypothesis https://t.co/R6i7XqQQPs #tytlive wants more audience interaction? Try the link. @AnaKasparian @davekoller
— Terry Elliott (@telliowkuwp) March 15, 2017
Here is how it would work with this sample YouTube from TYT:
Below are several directions you might take with Hypothes.is
1. Annotate the existing YouTube transcript with Hypothes.is, or
2. Create a Hypothes.is group where viewers could share their annotations (join here) or
3. Use the Digipo Chrome extension to create a unique Hypothes.is tag for that particular YouTube video. I have done this for the video above (digipo:analysis:audiopaul_ryantrashingtrump).
I have tried all three of the methods above. Number three is the best. It allows you to laser down to one particular text in one particular time. The other two methods are way easier for new readers to implement.
(Please note that I think that TYT should run their own wiki for this, but that would come further down the line after the idea proved itself.)
I would love for these annotations to expand totheir other YouTube programs (TYT Politics, Aggressive Progressive et al) as well as provide an alternate way for TYT to bring in viewers to their production meetings. Viewers could serve as a larger gateway for local and regional stories that might otherwise glide under the radar. How cool it would be if there were affiliate TYT groups that would spin off from the show using the crowdsourced story ideas and annotations generated locally. A TYT live show anywhere in the country and like TED talks sprouting up like mushrooms, only driven by citizen journalists who are finding what’s newsworthy close by. Too crazy and too strong.
I would love to try this with my incoming first-semester students next fall and explore this further with anyone who wants to use TYT as a platform for citizen journalism. Any takers?