Course Outline and Assigned Readings

Date

Topic

Due

Aug. 25

Intro and Overview



 

Aug. 30



Sept. 1

Monday

Defining Key Terms - new media, social media, convergence, interactivity, rss, blogs, microblog, hyperlocal...

 

Wired Magazine
South By Southwest Interactive

Presentation: Social Media Techniques

 

Wednesday
History of Internet and Web

Video: The Internet: Behind the Web

Read: Journalism Next Intro and Chapter 1

Join Twitter

Sept. 6






Sept. 8
 

Monday - Labor Day - no class

 

 

Wednesday

Blogs

Using Wordpress

Read: Journalism Next Chapter 2: Blogging

Video: Did You Know 4.0

Video: The Machine is Us/ing Us

 

 



 

 

 

Set up a Blog using Wordpress.com - make an introductory post about you and what your blog is about

Sept. 13







Sept. 15


Monday

Skills - HTML Concepts







Wednesday

CSS

Browsers & Search

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fun with HTML - do Part I of exercise in HTML handout for Wed.

 

 

Sept. 20




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sept. 22

 

 




Monday

Microblogging/Twitter
Chapter 3: Crowd-powered Collaboration

Read: Journalism Next Chapter 4: Microblogging

More Twitter basics

Time, How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

Video: The Daily Show: Twitter Frenzy
Video: Twouble With Twitters


 



Wednesday

Mobile

Evan Williams - TED talk 2009
Read: Journalism Next Chapter 5: Mobile
Excerpts "Planet of the Apps"
Intro and Texthog.com
Greg Grunberg and Yowza

 

 

 

Fun with HTML - do Part II of exercise in HTML handout for Mon.

Sept. 27



Sept. 29

Monday

History of Social Networks

History of Social Networks

Video: People Power

Features of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter...

Read: Wired, The Great Wall of Facebook

Business Week Report on the Future of Social Networking

 

Wednesday

Social Networks continued

 

 

 

Mobile Project due

Oct. 4




Oct. 6

Monday

Skills: make a photo slideshow

Read: Journalism Next Chapter 6: Visual Storytelling with Photographs

 

 

Wednesday

Understanding Online Business Models

Reading: The Long Tail, Chris Anderson

Free, Chris Anderson

 

 

 

Facebook Groups/Pages assignment due

Oct. 11







Oct. 13

Monday
Skills: Audio Briggs, Chapter 7 - Making audio journalism “visible”
NPR.org

 

 

 

 

Wednesday
Video, Skype, Streaming Video Briggs, Chapter 8 - Telling stories with video

Read: Chapter 8: Telling Stories with Video
Trends in Multimedia Presentation & Blog post w links
NY Times Multimedia
Washington Post Photos and Video
On Being
Being a Black Man
Ivory Wars -watch starting at 5:05-6:47

Other Places for Multimedia Inspiration
Cyberjournalist.net Great Work Gallery
Media Storm

 

Read: Wired, The Good Enough Revolution

 

 

 

Slideshow Project Due

Oct. 18



Oct. 20

Monday
Midterm Exam - multiple choice/TF


 

Wednesday

Developing a Personal Brand

Video: Gary Vaynerchuk: Legacy is Greater Than Currency

Read: Excerpt from Crush It!

 

 

 

 

Video Project Due
See the iMovie Handout for editing instructions
iMovie Tutorial
scroll down

Oct. 25

 

 

 

Oct. 27

YouTube
The Five Secrets of YouTube's Success
YouTube vs. Boob Tube - Wired Dec. 2006

 

RSS - Widgets and Feeds



 

Nov. 1 & 3

Monday/Wed

Remix Culture & Online Music

Video: Remix Manifesto

Read: Media Shift: 5 Tips for Musicians to Engage Fans Digitally

Media Shift: The Time is Right for Direct-to-Fan Music Marketing

 

Additional Music Resources
1000 True Fans - Technium Blog
The Rise of the Musical Middle Class - Hypebot.com
The Lefsetz Letter



Wednesday

Nov. 8 & 10

Monday

Data-driven Journalsm

Read: Journalism Next Chapter 9: Data-driven Journalism

NY Times Magazine, Goosing the Grey Lady

Toxic Waters - NY Times

Test Scores - NY Times

Politifact

Census Map

MSNBC Bridge Tracker

Casino Map - Las Vegas Sun

Living with Less Wordtrain - NY Times

Hillary Clinton First Lady Schedules

Evan Smith - Texas Tribune video from paidcontent.org

 

 



 

Nov. 15 & 17

Monday/Wednesday

The Future of News

News Interactives

Read: Journalism Next Chapter 10: Managing News as a Conversation
The Future of News Excerpt (handout) - News As User Experience

 

 

Nov. 22



Nov. 24

Read: Journalism Next Chapter 11: Building a Digital Audience for News

 

 

Thanksgiving

 

Nov. 29




Dec. 1

Monday

Future Trends - Foursquare, Open Social, Facebook Connect, Net Neutrality, Cloud Computing

Video: The Daily Show, From Here to Neutrality

 

Wednesday

Media curriculum of the future
OJR, Eight Things Journalism Students Should Demand from J-Schools

 

Dec. 6

Review for Exam

 

Dec. 8

 

Final Paper due

by 5pm