The 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism starts on Friday 17 April at UT Austin and I’m planning to blog and Twitter from the two days of discussions on the state of online journalism. The conference is unusual as it brings together journalists, news executives and academics from across the world. The event kicks off with a keynote by Paul Steiger, the former editor of The Wall Street Journal, who
Ian Bogost, associate professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and founding partner of Persuasive Games, on the challenges of making news games for the media. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1077336&w=425&h=350&fv=] (Shot on a Nokia N95 at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin)
Chris Lloyd, assistant managing editor of the Telegraph Media Group, reflects on a year of change at the newspaper. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1072727&w=425&h=350&fv=] Shot on a Nokia N95 at the Online Journalism Symposium in Austin, Texas
As the Online Journalism Symposium draws to a close, I wanted to draw attention to the keynote on Saturday by Ramón Salaverria. He is a professor and vice chair at the School of Communication, Navarra University, Spain In his address, he tackled the illusive topic of convergence. In his view, convergence is very different to integration
I was fortunate enough to present my research on how the BBC has integrated blogging in its journalism at the Online Journalism Symposium. The paper, The BBC Goes Blogging: Is ‘Auntie’ Finally Listening?, is available for download as a PDF. Here’s the abstract to provide a taster of the paper: This study examines how the world’s largest news organization, the BBC, has sought to incorporate blogging in its journalism, both
Social networking sites such as Facebook offer the potential to organise around a cause. But a study presented an the Online Journalism Symposium offers some valuable insights in what people actually do on Facebook. Lessons from Facebook: The Effect of Social Network Sites on College Students’ Social Capital (PDF), by Sebastian Valenzuela, Namsu Park, and Kerk F. Kee, graduate students at UT Austin, found that social media were good for
One of the big changes in the media has been a shift towards online video, particularly by newspapers, and this is emerging as a major battleground for audiences online. Research by Neil Thurman and Ben Lupton of City University, London, showed that editors are keen to embrace new technologies such as video and see them as a part of the future of news
The second day of the Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin starts with what some may consider an unusual topic for a journalism conference – video games. Suzanne Seggerman, president of the non-profit Games For Change, offers an overview of games as a medium. She starts off by noting that parents, educators and the media approach games with fear. Her argument is that but people don’t understand that games are
A couple of highlights from a session on infographics. Alberto Cairo, assistant professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill talks about the three levels of infographics. First there are instructional ones, where people click through a graphic. These are everywhere now but less commonplace are graphics where you can manipulate data. Cairo says these graphics allow users to adapt it to their needs and goals. These types of
Liz Nord, supervising producer at MTV News, takes the stage at the Online Journalism Symposium, and does a little bit of explaining that MTV is more than music video and yes, it has a newsroom. But after the brief educational slide, she focuses on the Street Team 08 project. This brings together 51 young citizen reporters to cover the US presidential race for MTV by blogging, vlogging or producing more