Paper accepted: MOGPlay: A Decentralized Crowd Journalism Application for Democratic News Production @ 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference

Title: MOGPlay: A Decentralized Crowd Journalism Application for Democratic News Production

Authors: Ines Rito Lima, Claudia Marinho,Vasco Filipe, Alexandre Ulisses, Nishant Saurabh, Antorweep Chakravorty, Zhiming Zhao, Atanas Hristov, Radu Prodan

2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)

Abstract: Media production and consumption behaviors are changing in response to  new technologies and demands, giving birth to a new generation of social  applications. Among them, crowd journalism represents a novel way of constructing democratic and trustworthy news relying on ordinary citizens arriving at breaking news locations and capturing relevant videos using their smartphones. The ARTICONF project proposes a trustworthy, resilient, and globally sustainable toolset for developing decentralized applications (DApps). Leveraging the ARTICONF tools, we introduce a new DApp for crowd journalism called MOGPlay. MOGPlay collects and manages audio-visual content generated by citizens and provides a secure blockchain platform that rewards all stakeholders involved in professional news production. Besides live streaming, MOGPlay offers a marketplace for audio-visual content trading among citizens and free journalists with an internal token ecosystem. We discuss the functionality and implementation of the MOGPlay DApp and illustrate three pilot crowd journalism live scenarios that validate the prototype.