A story about blogging, journalism and education this week that reflects the grey boundaries of professionalism in the digital age.
Alana Taylor,
a journalism student at NYU, blogged about one of her classes on new media “Reporting Gen Y (a.k.a. Quarterlifers)” for Mediashift, a pbs andKnight foundation backed blog on digital media hosted by Mark Glaser.
The original post [...]
We are probably all familiar with maps of the world with the south pole at the top, or showing relative size per capita income or use of global resources etc: they act as an immediate visual paradigm shift in our perceptions in a way that simple raw data on a subject can’t match.
In the same [...]
Mashing up google maps and news events is a potentially killer app for delivering a better understanding of events on both a local and global scale. Ushahid is a very interesting site that was set up during the post election violence in Kenya to act as an incident reporting and tracking monitor for acts of [...]
charlie beckett, the director of Polis has written a new book called SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save The World and in a blog entry related to it writes
‘“What are we supposed to tell our newsrooms when they tell us they don’t have time to do anything special for the Web?” Or put it [...]
As a media practitioner and educator I’m interested particularly in the ways that new media are transforming the landscape of how we source our information, knowledge and beliefs about the world. We are shifting from a passive stance of absorbing from fixed media like books and newspapers, and from the relatively traditional teaching methods of [...]
