How is new access to the power of the visual changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant?
Podcast: Mark Turner, “Minding the News”
Research on the cognitive underpinnings of network news, with an emphasis on blended joint attention, story-telling, counterfactuality, and hypotheticals.
Podcast: Kelley Kreitz, “Yellow Journalism as Civic Media?: Rewiring an Experiment with Nineteenth-Century News”
Revisiting the activist impulse behind yellow journalism provides a window on a changing media ecology in which the future of news was under debate.
Podcast, Francis Steen: “The News as a Social Process for Improving Society”
Francis Steen on coverage of the 2011 attack in Norway, that the news is not primarily about reporting what happened but about constructing narratives.
The News as a Social Process for Improving Society
Yves Citton: “While machines can ‘read’ data, only human subjectivities can ‘interpret’ them.”
Video and podcast, “Adapting Journalism to the Web” with Jay Rosen and Ethan Zuckerman
How can professional reporters and editors help to assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world?
Podcast: Ian Bogost, “The Cartoonist and the Whaler: Notes on the Future of Journalism and Other Media”
Ian Bogost summarizes the principles of newsgames and then offers two related but conflicting perspectives on its role in the future of newsmaking.
