Making sense of the intersection between media, society and technology
This promo video provides a taste of a forthcoming exhibition at the British Library in London showcasing new research tools and techniques. The exhibition, called Growing Knowledge, runs from October 12 2010 to July 16 2011. The aim is “to inform and inspire today’s researchers, consult and engage with them, demonstrate the value of investment [...]
In: BBC|internet|journalism
27 Aug 2010This visualisation of Mark Thompson’s MacTaggart speech highlights the most commonly used two words. The visualisation shows Thompson placing an emphasis on British television, public service, British public and licence fee.
In: innovation|interactive journalism|internet|journalism|online
10 Aug 2010Google has hired two of the leading researchers in visualization. In an understated post entitled That was fast!, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg announced that they had joined Google. Viégas and Wattenberg led IBM’s Visual Communication Lab, where they created the ground-breaking collaborative visualization platform Many Eyes. They left and set up Flowing Media a few months ago. But [...]
In: academics|education|internet|journalism|science journalism
10 Aug 2010My essay on how the internet is changing science journalism has been published as part of a collection called Science and the Media by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The volume includes contributions from leading science journalists such as Alan Alda, Cristine Russell and Cornelia Dean, edited by Donald Kennedy and Geneva Overholser. The editors write: [...]
The state of the media in the US was the focus of one of the panels at the AEJMC annual conference. Bob Papper of Hofstra University reported on the state of TV news in the US from a survey of local TV stations. His message was that things aren’t as bad as they seem. TV news [...]
During a panel at the AEJMC annual conference on rebooting journalism education, Rich Beckman from the University of Miami in Florida highlighted one of the big issues in journalism schools. Beckman spoke about the need to have faculty with the skills, knowledge and experience to teach new and emerging forms of digital journalism. He argued that re-educating [...]
An early morning session at the AEJMC conference, educators discussed one of the big issues in journalism education: what do journalism students need to learn to succeed in the industry. Amy Eisman of American University outlined six challenges to rebooting the curriculum within an academic environment: Glacial pace of change at universities Belief that established [...]
Here are the slides from my presentation at the AEJMC annual conference in Denver for the panel on planning, launching and running a converged student news website. AEJMC: Planning a student website View more presentations from Alfred Hermida. The panel is on today, Wednesday 4 August, from 1.30pm-3.30pm, room Plaza Court 4.
This blog is run by Professor Alfred Hermida, an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator.