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Weekend assignment: learning Twitter
As I mentioned in class yesterday, during the next week I’d like you to explore Twitter—and if you already have an account that you use regularly, great! Just make this an “advanced Twitter” session...
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The “living syllabus”
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while: to move my syllabus and class-prep material to a publicly available Google Docs page. This way, it becomes a truly “living” document that changes with us as we...
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Weekend assignment: Learning WordPress
Because we’re jumping into the group blog project next week, now is the time to make sure you are familiar with WordPress, the basic content management system (CMS) that we’ll be using. (As I mentioned...
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Future models for news: What comes next?
We’re now finishing our brief tour through the “new models for news” terrain. Remember that when I say “models” I’m doing it in the broadest sense: we can be talking about business/revenue models...
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We’re off and blogging!
Now that we’ve divided the class into group blog teams, to cover various aspects of Austin life for the next 8 weeks, here are a few things to keep in mind: • Make sure that you’re familiar with...
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Class blogs this semester
Our 18 students are spread among four blogs: Love, Austin Actively Austin Austin Appetite Burnt Orange Living
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Blogging and the law
Kurt’s presentation in class Thursday has some helpful links to share …
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Citizen journalism
Howdy, everyone! I hope you had a great spring break. This week we’re going to cover two related but different issues: citizen journalism and crowdsourcing. Both are “problematic” terms, in that people...
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Evaluating citizen media sites
Building off where we left off in class today, I’d like you to read this chapter on community journalism from the latest (indeed, very recent) State of the News Media report. Try to grasp the key...
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The need for context and explanation
For Tuesday’s discussion of explanatory journalism and how the Web can do so much more in helping us make sense of the news, please the ”context manifestos” that led off the recent SXSW panel “The...
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