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Data Journalism
Cindy Royal, Ph.D.
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Texas State University
cindyroyal.com
Find this presentation at slideshare.net/cindyroyal
Realities
• Computers will be a part of any media career and most other careers
• Social media is not just something you do for fun.• People will get information in a variety of embedded and
atmospheric ways.• Data, data everywhere.• Game dynamics will inform
storytelling.• Things change. Rapidly.
Data Projects
• TXStateofChange.com
Data Projects
HTML/CSS, Drupal, JQuery, VIDI, Google Chart Tools, ManyEyes, HighCharts.com, Google Earth and various visual tools to work with multimedia including Photoshop, iMovie, Premiere Pro and Final Cut
Data Projects
Mobile
• SXTXStories.com
Mobile
Hackathon
Graduate Curriculum
• Issues in New Media• Online Media Design• Advanced Online Media• Content Management
Systems
Radical Curriculum Proposal
• Flip the curriculum. Teach digital, integrate traditional skills.• Curriculum must include:
• Programming concepts• Web design and development• Mobile Development• Data and data visualization• Programming for content management systems
Radical Curriculum Proposal
• Journalism is a specialized used of many fields• Computer Science ≠ Web Development• Design is a key element in being able to communicate
effectively• Data, data, data• Knowledge of statistics
also important• Need for different
teaching methods• Reach different audiences• Rise of learn-to-code movement• Jobs for people with these skills!!!
Radical Curriculum Proposal
• If we don’t move aggressively and efficiently toward this:• Journalism curricula will increasingly grow irrelevant• Someone else - another department, organization – is
going to fill that space• Students won’t have the 21st century communication
skills they need to be successful in their careers• Communication is two-way - connecting and sharing.
And providing meaning to data and information. This needs to be the foundation of any media curriculum.
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