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journalism.co.uk

26 October, 2016
Hypothes.is can help journalists collaborating on a project or investigation to collect, organise and discuss their research in one place.

journalismfund.eu

20 October, 2016
Non-profit organization Hypothes.is wants to bring a new, conversational layer of digital annotation to the web. Investigative journalists are a community that can make powerful use of it.

Journal of Victorian Culture

18 October, 2016
Observers of the digital humanities often see them as shifting literary study away from close reading. However, the digital humanities also present opportunities to refine our capabilities for close reading. These digital reading tools, often useful to scholars, may be just as helpful in the classroom. Students working on long Victorian texts often resist close reading. Ideally, they will have multiple low-pressure opportunities to practice this skill. Open annotation provides a frequent, collegial assignment to help students gain the habit of turning to specific moments in the text for their examples. Hypothes.is is an open-source project facilitating group annotation of any online text; it requires users to anchor any comment in a specific text passage while enabling privacy, conversation threads, and easy grading. This essay offers a commentary on open annotation in the classroom, growing out of the particular challenges and rewards of the course where it was used. Students’ experiences of the text were indisputably enriched by their work with Hypothes.is, but the assignment works best with careful framing and support due to students’ unfamiliarity with the technology.

Freedom to Tinker (hosted by Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy)

5 October, 2016
My book manuscript, Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, is now in Open Review. That means that while the book manuscript goes through traditional peer review, I also posted it online for a parallel Open Review. During the Open Review everyone—not just traditional peer reviewers—can read the manuscript and help make it better.

Scholarly Kitchen

22 September, 2016
Almost exactly three years ago, The Scholarly Kitchen posted a podcast with Peter Brantley about the then relatively new start-up, Hypothes.is. Find out what the organization is up to now, and why they believe in the power of annotation as a form of peer review.

Open Pedagogy on the OpenLab

23 August, 2016
Hypothesis an open annotation tool that allows users to collaboratively annotate, highlight, and tag web pages and .pdfs. We’re happy to share that the OpenLab now has the Hypothesis plugin as well as the Hypothesis aggregator plugin. Created for open peer review, Hypothesis has many uses for teaching and learning and it is an important tool for OERs. The chief use for Hypothesis is for students to collectively annotate a shared assigned reading. Rather than blogging in response to an entire reading, students can respond to a specific piece of the reading and, in turn, respond to their classmate’s comments. Students can also use it to give feedback to their instructor on the OER they are using.

University of California Newsroom

1 August, 2016
In a world where the answer to a yes or no question like “Was it hotter last year than ever before?” is up for debate, how can you know what to believe? Emmanuel Vincent and colleagues at the Center for Climate Communication at UC Merced had an idea: What if scientists could review online articles about climate change for accuracy?

Society of Environmental Journalists

1 June, 2016
There’s a new cop on the beat when it comes to critiquing media news reports and opinion columns on climate change science.

Poynter

25 May, 2016
Climate Feedback, a scientist-led effort to "peer review" the world’s climate journalism, is closing in on its $30,000 crowdfunding target. A successful conclusion to the campaign would bolster one of the most prominent efforts yet to conduct fact-checking via web annotation.

BookBusiness

13 May, 2016
Hypothes.is’s Dan Whaley and EPUB.js lead developer Fred Chasen envision a future where consumers can participate in ongoing and real-time discussions within the ebooks they’re reading.