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 www.onthatnote.com tech.cindyroyal.net twitter.com/cindyroyal facebook.com/cindyroyal linkedin.com/in/cindyroyal
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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.
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News As User Experience...Or Journalism and Data: The New BFFs
Social networks and media having an effect on traditional media
Web 2.0 sites share the characteristic of user-generated content
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photos and videos; news sites on Facebook, using Twitter News sites run the risk of seeming outdated or irrelevant if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
News as User Experience
Portable: 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones.
Personalized: 28% of internet users have customized their home page to include news from sources and on topics that particularly interest them.
Participatory: 37% of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter.
Digital Natives - more than half of American teenagers have created a blog, posted an artistic or written creation online, helped build a website, created an online profile, or uploaded photos and videos to a website.
Pew – Participatory News Consumer & Digital Natives
News as User Experience
Changing idea of “news” Breaking news Mobile – expectation of receiving news anywhere, on
demand Relationship with community, sources Role of “user experience” Rise of tools available to work with and present data
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/
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
Course sites:– Advanced Online Media - cindyroyal.com/advanced– Issues in New Media - cindyroyal.com/newmedia– Social Media at Work - cindyroyal.com/social– Web Design and Publishing - cindyroyal.com/webdesign
Other Reading
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