Week 1 The
Rise of Networked Journalism
3.22 Introduction
3.24
Reading| Networked Chapter 1:
Introduction
Mike Ananny’s
Open Letter to the NYT
Week 2
Shifting News Traditions and Frames
3.29 The case
against objectivity: Trump and Snowden
Greenwald vs Keller in Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News?
Panel Topic: What are the benefits
and drawbacks of objectivity versus engagement in journalism?
3.31 Journalism as Activism
Reading|
Tim Pool's Reddit AMA
Juliana Rotich on Ushahidi
Ta-Nehisi Coates on a new race beat
Panel Topic: How are activists
taking up the role of journalists?
Week 3 Networked
Publics + guests Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami
4.5 Networked publics
Reading| Networked Chapter 2
Jay Rosen’s People Formerly know as the Audience
4.7
Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami
Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami Authors of the new book Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War.
Please read the review of their book linked to above. Also please educate yourself on the situation in Syria. This Vice Documentary on Syria is good but extremely graphic and disturbing. This BBC overview is another option.
Please read the review of their book linked to above. Also please educate yourself on the situation in Syria. This Vice Documentary on Syria is good but extremely graphic and disturbing. This BBC overview is another option.
EXAM I [take home for section 1 and for those in section 2
who can attend the section 1 talk]
Week 4 Changing News Habits + guest Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
4.12 Transformative technologies and practices + Paper or Story Prospectus Due
Reading|
Networked Chapter 3
Stijn Debrouwere's Fungible
Pew research on The Evolving Role of News in Twitter and Facebook
Panel Topic: How are connective
media platforms influencing the news and our news habits?
4.14 Estlow
Event and Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
Reading|
Networked Chapter 5
Week 5
Leaks
4.19 Film:
CitizenFour
4.21 finish Citizenfour
Reading|
Alan Rusbridger’s The Snowden Leaks and the Public
Panel Topic: What implications do the
Snowden revelations have for journalism?
Week 6
Public Life and the Future of News
4.26 Leaks Wrap up
Reading|
Networked Chapter 4
Panel Topic: What role does parody and satire play in influencing and shaping news and public opinion?
Week 7 Data Journalism
5.3 Data and Journalism
Reading|
Tow Center For Digital Journalism and Tow/Knight Report The Art and Science of Data-driven Journalism
Eva Constantaras on Internews
To check out:
The most famous and celebrated data-vis story
ever: Snow Fall
Some other
examples of
recent award winning data journalism
5.5 The Yes Men Fix the World
Take Home Exam
II Due 5.17
Week 8
5.10 No Class
5.12 No Class
Week 9 New Forms of Storytelling
5.17
Jonathan Stray on media influence and elections
Nate Silver's What the Fox Knows
Climate Progress on Silver’s Climate Coverage Deeply Misleading
5.19 Gaming
other emergent forms of news
Reading|
Reading|
Tow's Play The News (for this one yon’t have to read the whole thing, just read the chapter descriptions.)
Panel Topic: What are some examples
of gaming used in news narratives? What potential does this and other emergent
genres have for the future of news and public engagement?
AND!
Panel Topic: How do new forms of story telling engage publics in new ways?
Panel Topic: How do new forms of story telling engage publics in new ways?
Week 10 Wrap Up: What do we want and need
from the future of journalism?
5.24 Wrap up
5.26 Project
presentations
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