News As User Experience 2015
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Cindy Royal discusses how digital media and journalism are evolving at Texas State University. The university offers various digital media courses that teach skills like web design, coding, data journalism, and digital storytelling. News media is also changing as audiences expect more interactivity and participation through comments, user-generated content, and social media. Journalists now rely more on tools to work with and present data in stories. Examples provided show how news organizations are using data and interactive features in innovative ways to engage audiences.
News As User Experience 2015
- 1. News As User Experience ...Or Journalism and Data: The New BFFs Cindy Royal, Ph.D Associate Professor Texas State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication [email protected] www.cindyroyal.com slideshare.net/cindyroyal
- 2. Digital Media at Texas State Fundamentals of Digital/Online Media Core Course Electives Web Design and Publishing Coding and Data Skills Multimedia Journalism Digital Storytelling Digital Entrepreneurship Digital Concentration – graduate and undergraduate New Digital Media Innovation Major SXTXState project Mass Comm Week brings in digital media speakers from the region and nation
- 3. News as User Experience Social networks and media are having an effect on traditional media Increased expectation on part of user as to participation News examples: comments, ratings, blogs, user-generated photos and videos; news sites on Facebook, using Twitter, other social platforms News sites run the risk of seeming outdated or irrelevant if you don't give users something to do Rise of participatory culture – Henry Jenkins in Convergence Culture
- 4. News as User Experience Changing idea of “news” Breaking news Mobile – expectation of receiving news anywhere, on demand Relationship with community, sources Relevance of data to storytelling Rise of tools available to work with and present data Rise of data journalism as a speciality Rise of programming skills as an important literacy
- 5. Examples New York Times – Rent or Buy
- 6. Examples ProPublica Dollars for Docs
- 7. Examples New York Times – How Ya’ll, Youse and You Guys Talk
- 8. Examples Texas Tribune – Faces of Death Row
- 9. Examples Statesman – Child Abuse and Neglect Fatality Database
- 10. Examples NYT Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical
- 11. Examples ProPublica – Money As a Weapons System
- 12. Examples Texas State Student Becky Larson – Loud Austin
- 13. Examples Stamen Design – MTV Movie Awards Twitter Visualization
- 14. Resources Are Journalism Schools Teaching Their Students the Right Skills, - Nieman Lab, http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/04/cindy-royal-are-journalism-schools-teaching-their-students- the-right-skills/ When the Data Struts Its Stuff – NYT - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/business/03stream.html Teaching with Infographics – NYT - http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/teaching- with-infographics-places-to-start/ Renegades at The New York Times – New York Magazine - http://nymag.com/news/features/all-new/53344/ Data Journalism at the Guardian: What It Is and How Do We Do It? - http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jul/28/data-journalism The Programmer Majored in English – Nieman Journalism Lab - http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/05/the-programmer-majored-in-english-a-fascinating-study-of- the-nyts-interactive-news-unit/ Poynter – Data-driven Journalism articles http://www.poynter.org/tag/data-driven-journalism/ Stanford – Journalism in the Age of Data - http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/ Hacks/Hackers – hackshackers.com 11 Journalism Jobs You May Hold in the Future - http://sustainablejournalism.org/future-of- journalism/journalism-jobs-may-hold-future
- 15. Other Reading Data Journalism Handbook – European Journalism Centre - datajournalismhandbook.org Simon Rogers – Facts are Sacred Clay Shirky – Here Comes Everybody & Cognitive Surplus Dan Gillmor – We the Media & Mediactive Jeff Jarvis – What Would Google Do? Max McCombs - The Future of News Douglas Rushkoff - Program or Be Programmed: 10 Commandments for a Digital Age Henry Jenkins - Convergence Culture Ian Bogost – Newsgames: Journalism at Play James Surowiecki – The Wisdom of Crowds