Welcome to NMC 301 – Writing for the Professional Media
As noted on the syllabus, I am providing a selection of links, for articles, websites, blogs, studies etc… on cool new media topics. I will continue to update this list daily because great work is constantly being done on new media topics. You will select THREE ENTRIES from this list each week to read or view. You will write a thoughtful analysis of each selection and post your thoughts on your blog for your classmates and I to read.
I will provide samples of strong posts from other classes in my next post on this blog, as well as on Blackboard. As you read each selection, think like an editor, a blogger, a student, a content consumer…put on different hats as you write. What is useful about the post? How does it connect to other new media writing you have encountered? Who is the writer’s intended audience? How can you tell? Does the writer make sweeping generalizations you disagree with? Do so. Do you like the writing? Describe the writer’s voice — is it one of authority or personality or both? Is the writing casual, professional, appropriate? Why? How? Compare and contrast each thing you read or view with other posts as a way to place each piece in the larger new media landscape you are exploring in this class.
You should also go through my Blogroll to explore the excellent new media blogs and their interesting posts. Just dive in!
Here’s the list so far:
Facebook video for class
http://albumoftheday.com/facebook/
January 30, 2009
Stanford U. Researcher Teaches Noncredit ‘Facebook for Parents’ Course
Do you know what your kids are up to on Facebook? The social-networking service has become a major online hangout for many children (especially college students), and one Stanford researcher who studies the service argues that parents should join, too — and befriend their children.
Facebook Friends or a Whopper? You Decide
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/fashion/29facebook.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
YouTube video on Shift Happens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSYJourno-Tweeting:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=154238How Newsrooms are using Twitter
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=128918Social Media: It’s bigger than you think!
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=157574Reporters’ Facebook pages…Bias?
http://sn102w.snt102.mail.live.com/mail/InboxLight.aspx?FolderID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&InboxSortAscending=False&InboxSortBy=Date&n=1023458850
News Bloggers Code of Ethics Facebook groupExcellent profile on Nat Hentoff:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/nyregion/09nyc.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
Howard Owens on the Wired Journalist
http://www.howardowens.com/2007/2008-objectives-for-todays-non-wired-journalist/
10,000 Words blog Journalism and Technology meet
http://www.10000words.net/2008/08/10-journalists-you-should-follow-on.htmlBloggers must sue for credentials to cover the newsNew Media bibliography
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=899
How to find free music for video: http://www.10000words.net/2008/09/where-to-find-free-sound-effects-and.html
NYTimes: Brave New World of Digital Intimacy: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html?_r=1&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin
ESPN Reporting Goes Virtual: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/business/media/05espn.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1
Extradinary Multimedia work about ordinary things
http://www.10000words.net/2008/09/innovative-multimedia-centered-on.htmlStudy: In disasters, people turn to social media:http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/report_in_emergencies_people_turn_to_social_media.php
J-Lab’s analysis of the future of media: http://www.naa.org/blog/FutureOfNewspapers/1/2007/11/Construct-Your-Communitys-InfoStructure.cfm
State of the News Media: http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2007/narrative_overview_intro.asp?media=1
The Five Commenters Typically found on news sites:
http://www.10000words.net/2008/08/5-commenters-typically-found-on-news.htmlCheck out the class blog from Winter term:
http://osunmc.wordpress.com/Read Mindy McAdams: http://mindymcadams.com/
YouTube journalism contest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIivlrNoyVUCan New Media Be Taught in Schools?
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/can_new_media_be_taught_in_schools.php10,000 Words blog post on GOOD Magazine
http://www.10000words.net/2008/10/5-reasons-why-good-magazine-is-best.htmlWho uses the Internet?
http://www.pewinternet.org/trends/User_Demo_6.15.07.htmMultimedia Toolkit:
http://www.jtoolkit.com/Watch “Bearing Witness” a multimedia report by Reuters:
http://iraq.reuters.com/Reporters Gone Wild!
http://www.10000words.net/2008/09/reporters-gone-wild.htmlWatch this:
YouTube Reporter Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGkstFwJKa8&feature=userhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
YouTube news channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQkON7NN6WY&feature=userHenry Jenkins: Youth, Ethics and Digital Media article and blog post
http://henryjenkins.org/2008/09/youth_new_media_literacies_and.html
Read Henry Jenkins:
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/eBookstore/PDFs/GoodWork54.pdfThe Mashup Man: AJR
http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4258
Read 50 Writing Tools in Three Hours: http://mallaryjeantenore.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/50-writing-tools-in-three-hours/
MediaShift: Innovations in storytelling: Using comics for journalism
http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2008/09/innovations-in-storytelling-us.html10,000words.net is a blog you should keep up with.
Get their posts sent to you by subscribing.Read this blog post about how technology is transforming the political landscape:
http://www.10000words.net/2008/10/how-technology-is-changing-political.htmlRead: NYTimes story on Crowdfunding – New Model in Journalism http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/weekinreview/24kershaw.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1
Read: MediaShift blog post on making new media ideas come to life: http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2008/08/growing-a-community-and-the-im.htmlScrew the system! Publish your own content
http://www.10000words.net/2008/09/screw-system-publish-your-own-content.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=9iODWI83-WY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIivlrNoyVU
http://www.mediamanagementcenter.org/research/youthelection.pdf
YouTube journalism contest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIivlrNoyVUHenry Jenkins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbU6BWHkDYw&feature=related
Henry Jenkins: Youth Culture and Violence from Technology?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDKIsplqGmY
Media Literacy as a strategy for combatting moral panic Henry Jenkins View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/CMS-930F01 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More informationPaul Levinson: Where is New Media heading?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqZNGYit3kY&feature=relatedTime Magazine Year of the Youth Vote:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1708570,00.htmlPBS Frontline: Kids Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/Pew Report on Teen Content Creators
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/166/report_display.aspESPN Hits Second Life
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/business/media/05espn.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1YouTube slideshow re engaging youth through social mobile media
http://www.slideshare.net/tylerreed/engaging-youth-through-social-mobile-media-presentation?src=related_normal&rel=571607Adrian Holovaty’s Missouri graduation speech:
http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2006/05/15/0110/Adrian Holovaty’s 9 ways newspapers must change:
http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2006/09/06/0307/Inst. for New Media Studies guide to multimedia storytelling:
http://www.inms.umn.edu/pages/view.asp?id=5
YouTube stories produced by above conference:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=inmsumnMultimedia narratives in Journalism:
http://www.interactivenarratives.org/Twitter Tips from Amy Gahran
http://www.kcnn.org/modules/twitter_tipsFrom the: USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review: http://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/reporting/index.cfm
Online Journalism Wikishttp://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2008/09/mmcstudy.html
