New Media and Journalism Time-line, Student Names

New Media and Journalism Timeline, Shannon Findlay and Pamela Di Pinto

New Media and Journalism Time-line, Robert Smethurst

New Media and Journalism Time-line, Jennifer Carbert, Aden Joy Cruz

New Media and Journalism Time-Line, Katrine Sorensen, Stevzzzen Wagers

New Media and Journalism Time-line, Devon Bowie, Jesse Snyder

Journalism Students and the Digital Era, Shannon Findlay and Pamela Di Pinto

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The cartoon above represents how social media has become popular for many uses in our society. Not only as a way to keep in touch, but to deliver news, share pictures, and connect with large audiences quickly. Social media is an effective tool that all journalists should be prepared to work with.

Journalism Students & the Digital Era, Aden Cruz

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In Howard Rheingold’s video, he reiterated the idea that “…newspaper people aught to take into account as they move journalism into this new form is the ability to link and thus to create an infinite number of refractions on stories that had to be told only in one dimension previously. Multimedia, the capability of taking audio and video and graphic simulations and add them to the repertoire of text and still images in the same medium.”

My cartoon depicts the fact that journalists now have a lot of baggage (literally, and in their work-load) due to the new multi-media standards of reporting. Not only are journalists writers, they are also the photographer, videographer, and the audio person.

On the last scene the reporter says she needs to tweet and blog; something Rheingold's video also focused on was the importance of adapting to social media and being accessible to audience participation.

Journalism Students and the Digital Era, Kris Hoyt

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This one is not meant to be funny. Basically, the reporter managed ot get the story, but because the wi-fi failed, he could not get it up on time. As a result the competitor's got it up first while this paper needed to wait for the print version. I hope it's clear.

Journalism Students and the Digital Era, Katrine Sorensen

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I got the impression from the video blog that the editors and new organizations are looking for people who have an interest in learning and participating in online media. Whatever the individual journalist's opinion is about journalism 2.0, to be against it is the direct route to unemployment in today's business.

Journalism Students & the Digital Era, Steven Wagers

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In my toodoo I wanted to show what would happen to you, as a journalist, if you were to not follow with the times. The industry is moving increasingly towards using social media as a way to get news out. If you don't adapt to these changes, you will surely be attacked viciously by multiple aliens, so I'd get familiar with social media if I were you.

Journalism Students & the Digital Era, Jennifer Carbert, Devon Bowie

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We decided to create a cartoon about a foolish person (luddite) stuck to the old ways of publishing media. Internet and progress ran over everything in its way including the old school luddite. And now he is in hell. \m/

Lecture 12: Journalism Students & The Digital Era

For homework I asked you to watch this Howard Rheingold video:




Futher reading included "Assessing the Credibility of Online Sources."


Activity 1: Respond to VLog

With a partner, create a cartoon that captures the main premise of "What do Journalism Students Need to Know in the Digital Era."

Create an account on ToonDoo. Choose the tab "Tools" and click "ToonDoo Maker." Create a 3 scene cartoon. Save your cartoon and then embed it in a blog post. Include a few sentences in your blog post summarising your cartoon.

Title: Journalism Students & the Digital Era, Student Names
Labels: journalism 2.0, lecture 12, new media, review



Activity 2: Respond to Assessing Credibility

Choose an article from today's edition of the Edmonton Journal.
Assess the article according to the credibility criteria in the webcredible list.
How does the Edmonton Journal fare? Note your main findings in a comment here. Make sure to include your name.

Note: Image of Alan D. Mutter from Armand Emamdjomeh on the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism site.


Read "BBC Tells News Staff to Embrace Social Media."

Activity 3: Respond in a blog comment: Now that you're nearing the end of the term and have had a lot of experience with various web 2.0 tools and discussions of the future of journalism, do you agree or disagree with the Guardian article above. Why or why not? Is there anything you would like to add to the article? Were there any viewpoints not mentioned that should have been presented? Did you note any proofreading/copy editing errors?


Activity 4: With a partner, create a time-line of the role of new media in journalism. You will need to sign up for an account on http://www.capzles.com/. When you have finished your time-line, save it and then copy the embed code and paste it into a new blog post.

Title: New Media and Journalism Time-line, Student Names
Labels: Lecture 12, new media, journalism 2.0, history


Some sites that you might find useful include:

http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=75953&sid=26


http://www.cemp.ismysite.co.uk/timelines/journalism/


http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/02/washington-posts-web-ninjas-build-map-timeline-combo047.html



Homework:

Come ready to review for the final exam.

Final exam: Tuesday April 20, 1:00-4:00 in room 212.

Journalism Students & the Digital Era, Jayme Hagen and Terra Poole

In this constantly changing social media landscape it is vital you are familiar with all the tools available. By not learning a specific type of media, such as Twitter, you are alienating a potential audience. Even if you don't necessarily like the social media, you never want to narrow your audience by your own ignorance.

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