news as user experience...or journalism and data: the new bffs cindy royal, ph.d associate professor...
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News As User Experience...Or Journalism and Data: The New BFFs
Cindy Royal, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Texas State University
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
www.cindyroyal.com
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News as User Experience
Social networks and media having an effect on traditional media
Web 2.0 sites share the characteristic of user-generated content
Increased expectation on part of user as to participation News examples: comments, ratings, blogs, user-generated
photos and videos; news sites on Facebook, using Twitter News sites run the risk of seeming outdated or irrelevant if
you don't give users something to do Rise of participatory culture – Henry Jenkins in
Convergence Culture
News as User Experience
Portable: 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones.
Personalized: 28% of internet users have customized their home page to include news from sources and on topics that particularly interest them.
Participatory: 37% of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter.
Digital Natives - more than half of American teenagers have created a blog, posted an artistic or written creation online, helped build a website, created an online profile, or uploaded photos and videos to a website.
Pew – Participatory News Consumer & Digital Natives
News as User Experience
Changing idea of “news” Breaking news Mobile – expectation of receiving news anywhere, on
demand Relationship with community, sources Role of “user experience” Rise of tools available to work with and present data
Examples
New York Times – Rent or Buy
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calculator.html
Examples
New York Times – Mapping the Nation's Well-Being
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/06/weekinreview/20110306-happiness.html
Examples
New York Times – Budget Forecast Compared with Reality
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/02/us/politics/20100201-budget-porcupine-graphic.html
Examples
Guardian – Obama at 50
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/aug/04/barack-obama-50-birthday-interactive
Examples
NYT – Census: Mapping America
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer
Examples
NYT Inaugural Words
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/17/washington/20090117_ADDRESSES.html
Examples
NYT Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/26/sports/olympics/20100226-olysymphony.html
Examples
CNN Money: Best Companies to Work For
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2011/word_cloud/index.html
Examples
ProPublica - The Opportunity Gap
http://projects.propublica.org/schools/
Examples
Stanford – The Growth of Newspapers Across the US
http://www.stanford.edu/group/ruralwest/cgi-bin/drupal/visualizations/us_newspapers
Examples
Texas Tribune
http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/
Examples
Stamen Design – MTV Movie Awards Twitter Visualization
http://stamen.com/clients/mtv
Examples
Location collaborations
http://www.statesman.com/business/statesman-teams-up-with-gowalla-for-austin-virtual-724228.html
Tools
Chartle/Wordle
Google Charts and Visualizations
Google Fusion Tables
Google Maps
Visual.ly
Ruby on Rails or Django
Resources When the Data Struts Its Stuff – NYT -
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/business/03stream.html?_r=1
Teaching with Infographics – NYT - http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/teaching-with-infographics-places-to-start/
Renegades at The New York Times – New York Magazine - http://nymag.com/news/features/all-new/53344/
Data Journalism at the Guardian: What It Is and How Do We Do It? - http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jul/28/data-journalism
The Programmer Majored in English – Nieman Journalism Lab - http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/05/the-programmer-majored-in-english-a-fascinating-study-of-the-nyts-interactive-news-unit/
Poynter – Data-driven Journalism articles http://www.poynter.org/tag/data-driven-journalism/
Stanford – Journalism in the Age of Data - http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/
Hacks/Hackers – hackshackers.com
11 Journalism Jobs You May Hold in the Future - http://sustainablejournalism.org/future-of-journalism/journalism-jobs-may-hold-future
Course sites:– Advanced Online Media - cindyroyal.com/advanced– Issues in New Media - cindyroyal.com/newmedia– Social Media at Work - cindyroyal.com/social– Web Design and Publishing - cindyroyal.com/webdesign
Other Reading
Clay Shirky – Here Comes Everybody & Cognitive Surplus Dan Gillmor – We the Media & Mediactive Jeff Jarvis – What Would Google Do? Max McCombs - The Future of News Douglas Rushkoff - Program or Be Programmed: 10
Commandments for a Digital Age Henry Jenkins - Convergence Culture Ian Bogost – Newsgames: Journalism at Play James Surowiecki – The Wisdom of Crowds