Building trust in media

CiteIt is developing new digital tools that help combat misinformation and selective quotations. These tools show the context surrounding the quoted media in order to build trust and understanding.

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I) Video Transcript

Hello, this is Tim Langeman, creator of CiteIt.net.

PROBLEM

  1. Today with accusations about Fake News circulating widely, many readers suffer under a constant suspicion that any quotation they've read may have been taken out of context.
  2. Other readers just want to know more about a quote's context to better understand its meaning.

SOLUTION:

I've created the CiteIt.net App to address both reader concerns by creating a tool to enable responsible authors to easily lookup and display the contexts of their quotes. Here is an example of the first type of Contextual Citation: the expanding blockquote:
  1. notice the context expands when the reader clicks on an up or down arrow
  2. And here's the second type of contextual citation: the contextual popup which appears when the reader clicks on a quote.

BENEFITS

Authors who use the CiteIt.net App, give their readers more reason to trust them and distinguish themselves from media competitors.

DEMO

You can test-drive the CiteIt.net WordPress plugin by visiting demo.citeit.net This will send you to the demo site's WordPress login page. Log in with the default password and you will be taken to the WordPress dashboard. To make a test post, click "New -> Post" Now, let's create 2 new Contextual Citations from articles I found on Google News:

A) The first article has to with "bats" and is found on the BBC.

WordPress Editor: Bat Article To create the citation:
  1. We find and highlight a quote.
  2. We copy the quote to our clipboard and paste it into the WordPress post.
  3. We copy and paste the BBC article's URL to the clipboard
  4. We click the CiteIt blockquote button that was added by the CiteIt WordPress plugin
  5. We next paste the URL of the article into the prompt, and
  6. Click "Publish"
  7. Finally, we click the Permalink to view the published results
Because we clicked the "CiteIt blockquote" button, rather than the "CiteIt popup" button, our context displays by expanding the arrows above and below the quote.  

B) Now let's move on to a popup example featuring a quote about Warren Buffett found on Yahoo Finance.


I follow the very same process, copying the text and URL, but this time I select the "CiteIt popup button".
After I click publish, I don't see any arrows.
Instead, when I click on the text, I get the popup.

With CiteIt, It's about as easy to create Contextual Popups as to create links!
From this video, you can see how easy it is to create contextual popups using the Cite.net WordPress plugin.
This plugin is free and open source.
It currently requires the old TinyMCE WordPress editor.
Contact me if you are interested in helping add this functionality to the new Gutenberg editor.

II) Example Citations

Part 1: Blockquotes

  1. The first step is to go to demo.citeit.net in your web browser.
  2. Next, Login with the “public” user and the password found on the page.
  3. The next step is to click “Posts” > Add New“
  4. I’ll give the post a title and write my article, leaving room for the quote
    ( Time Elapses..)
  5. Now I’ll locate my quote on the internet to find the full context. In this case, the transcript is found on medium.org.
  6. I’ll copy the quote into my article
  7. I’ll copy the source’s URL to my clipboard
  8. In the editor, I highlight the quotation and
  9. Click on the CiteIt.net blockquote button, which the CiteIt.net WordPress plugin adds to the WordPress Editor as a custom button.
  10. Next, I Paste in my URL
  11. And click “publish“
  12. To view the published post, I click on the post’s URL or click “Preview”

I can now click on the blue arrows above or below the quote to see more context. (See Example)

Part 2: Popup Quotes

I can achieve the second variant of citation by performing the same steps, but selecting a different button — inline popup — to create a shorter inline quote.

  1. I click “Add New”
  2. I enter the quote title and post
  3. I copy the quote into the article
  4. I highlight the quotation
  5. I click on the other button: Inline popup.
  6. I pastee in the source’s URL
  7. I click publish.
  8. I can now view the resulting post byu cliking on the URL or clicking Preview.
  9. If I click on the quote’s link, the CiteIt.net contextual popup appears.

(See Example)

(NOTE: There still are some bugs.

Please report bugs by tagging your demo post with the tag “citeit-bugs“)


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