Week 7 After the Break

 Twitter sign up

Twitter, for all of its weirdness is a big part of digital journalism environment. No way to learn about it from the outside, total immersion is the only way to go.

Build a Twitter network focused on Digital Journalism and share resources with the class at #BUDigitalJournalism. I'll be using this as a main channel for the course from here forward.

— Show Your Work (@ggatin) February 27, 2018

 Google Maps
Build and embed a customized Google map to support a post onn your blog

I took a trip to Brandon Hills. and went for a hike.
Digital Journalism like legacy journalism is used to help people make sense of the world and make appropriate choices.

In the case of digital journalism one of the beats is the digital "turn" that has transformed the world. Journalists need tools and frameworks for critical analysis.

Technological Determinism vs Social Shaping of Technology are philosophical dichotomies that are used to understand changes.
One of the definitions of "human" is that we use tools, since we were homo habilus.

 Does society change based on the technology available or does technology arise out of a social need?

All these are great starting points for digital journalists. They give a foothold for action on complex stories and help people understand what is going on in their worlds.

Week Six: Maps and More New Forms of Journalism

 1. Preliminary grade for blog.

This week I will begin assessing your blogs for 10% of the available 40% of the mark (as described in the course syllabus). Make sure you have at least one blog post for each week of the class so far (5 posts). It is easier if you post weekly but you can also post multiple times to catch up.

2. Tracking things down on the internet.

•  Archive.is
• Using the Internet Archive and the 
• Wayback Machine to hunt down the Epistemological Lifeboat.

3. Journalism with Geodata

• Image verification
• Take a look at Bellingcat Blog and Verification Skills development post. 
• Check out GeoGuesser 

4. A bit of theory a bit of practice

The last few classes explored some features of new forms of journalism in a digital age.  Data Journalism, Citizen's Journalism, and variants. On an even larger scale we can compare and contrast the idea of stateless journalism with legacy journalism.

New forms of journalism involve some radical institutional level changes as described and analyzed in the article:

Deuze, M., & Witschge, T. (2018). Beyond journalism: Theorizing the transformation of journalism. Journalism, 19(2), 165–181. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884916688550

To read this article, here is an exercise in collaborative annotation using an application called Hypothes.is. Like Zotero, Hypothes.is is a not-for-profit web service intended for scholarship. You can use your class account to sign into Hypothes.is. Here is a link to the Hypothesis Group


Here is a link to the article with a Hypothesis annotation session started. You may have to log into your BU library account.

https://via.hypothes.is/http://journals.sagepub.com.berlioz.brandonu.ca/doi/full/10.1177/1464884916688550

Block quotes

Here is an example of creating a block quotation with the WISIWIG editor. I got this quote from a paper that was in my Zotero collection. I copied a section of the text and placed it in the post and then used the cite function to place the citation inside the quote and the bibliographic function to make the reference list entry. This is not exactly APA format because the Blogger editor doesn't easily lend itself to that style. Still the main APA organizational principles are evident.

 In the first decade and a half of the 21st century, audiences, in addition to changing their preferences and consumption habits, have also become active. Citizens are not satisfied with passively consuming news, and pursue greater participation, both outside and through the media. In some cases, this implies, at least potentially, becoming involved in all the phases of the production process. As was pointed out at the beginning, following Thompson (THOMPSON, 1988), audiences are breaking with the symbolic power of the media, which is now shifting to the active audience. (Masip, Guallar, Peralta, Ruiz, & Suau, 2015)

Reference List

Masip, P., Guallar, J., Peralta, M., Ruiz, C., & Suau, J. (2015). Active audiences and journalism: Involved citizens or motivated consumers? Brazilian Journalism Research, 11(1), 234–255.

Week 5: Citizens Journalism

Data Journalism review
Epistemology
Wikipedia

Zotero 


Citizens' journalism
Use Google scholar to search for published articles about citizen's journalism

• Who is a journalist? 
•  Why bother?

Sometimes I get asked why I bother arguing w/people online, since I'm never going to get them to change their minds. Here are my reasons: pic.twitter.com/tI9blwtlT7

— Julia Galef (@juliagalef) September 6, 2017

Week 4

DIKW framework

Twitter Sleuth Nathan Russer (aka Data Journalist) News story of the week. Strava Fitness Tracker App

Strava released their global heatmap. 13 trillion GPS points from their users (turning off data sharing is an option). https://t.co/hA6jcxfBQI … It looks very pretty, but not amazing for Op-Sec. US Bases are clearly identifiable and mappable pic.twitter.com/rBgGnOzasq

— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) January 27, 2018

It gets worse.

FON Theories

Shirky

• Here Comes Everyone
• Cognitive Surplus

Mark Federman

• UCPP
• Cargo cult

Environments

A little HTML 

Wikipedia

and WikiTribune

Internet Archive

Wayback Machine Other repositories

Want to be a podcaster?

CBC News is looking to uncover new voices as it moves more deeply into podcasts and audio innovation. Think you've got what it takes to host a news/current affairs podcast or show ... or know anyone who might? Feel free to share. pic.twitter.com/Tns0Q5a45p

— Jen Moroz (@JenMoroz) January 25, 2018

Vocaroo player


Online recording software >>

Want to pitch a program to CBC?

Embedding  information -- Tweets and other social media.
This is with the WYSIWYG editor.

This is how you embed a Tweet

United Airlines announced an earnings beat after-hours. EPS $1.40 vs Est. $1.34., Sales $9.43B vs $9.42B Est. Shares spiked to a high of $80.30 before retreating.https://t.co/tGQomtxlnT$UAL

— StockTwits (@StockTwits) January 23, 2018

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