Researching Digital Media

Cindy Royal, Ph.D.Associate Professor

School of Journal ism and Mass CommunicationTexas State University

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RESEARCHING DIGITAL MEDIA

RESEARCHING DIGITAL MEDIA

The Journalist as Programmer: A Case Study of The New York Times Interactive News Technology Department - #ISOJ

Open Innovation in Digital Journalism: Examining the Impact of Open APIs at Four News Organizations – NM&S; Aitamurto & Lewis

Innovation Processes in Online Newsrooms as Actor-Networks and Communities of Practice – NM&S; Schmitz-Weiss & Domingo

The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady – NY Magazine Lone Star Trailblazer: Will Texas Tribune Transform

Journalism? – CJR Theories: Media Sociology/Social

Meaning of News; Diff usion of Innovation; Programmer/Journalist

Methods: Case Study, Ethnography, Interview, Survey

PRODUCERS

Interactives of Olympic Proportions: The Diff usion of Data Journalism at The New York Times

The Interactive News Graphics of the Guardian and the New York Times (marijerooze.nl/thesis/graphics) – Marije Rooze

Twitter First: Changing TV News 140 Characters at a Time – #ISOJ

Twittering the News: The Emergence of Ambient Journalism – Journalism Practice

PRODUCTS

Theories: Diff usion of Innovation;

InteractivityMethods: Content Analysis,

Qualitative Methods

Mobile News Adoption Among Young Adults: Examining the Roles of Perceptions, News Consumption, and Media Usage- JMCQ; Chan-Olmstead, Rim and Zerba

Methods: Survey, Interviews, Focus Groups, Observation

Theories: Uses and Gratifi cations; Media Eff ects, Impression Management; Identity; Cultural Theories; Virtual Community, Social Capital; Network Theory

PEOPLE

Pew Internet and American Life Project

The Benefi ts of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites – JCMC; Ellison, Steinfi eld, Lampe

It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens – Danah Boyd

Creating Collegiate Media Opportunities in the Classroom Using Social Media: A Case Study of Experiential Learning

Journalism Schools Need to Get Better at Teaching Tech Where the Girls Are – Nieman Journalism Lab

Curriculum issuesOnline Learning & Distance Education

PEDAGOGY

Methods: Case Study, Experiments, Thought PiecesTheories: Diff usion of Innovation; Network Theory;

Experiential Learning

Pew InternetU.S. CensusU.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCenters for Disease Control and PreventionWorld Bank Open Data SourcesPatchwork NationTexas TribuneThe Guardian

DATA

Social Networking Sites: Definition, History and Scholarship – Boyd & Ellison

Social Networking Sites…Revisiting the Story So Far: A Response to Danah Boyd & Nicole Ellison – David Beer

Lawrence LessigHenry JenkinsClay ShirkyManual CastellsSherry TurkleChris Anderson’s – The Long Tail and Free

BIG THINKERS

The intersection of the roles of producer and consumer; citizen journalism; user-generated content

Cross-disciplinary collaborationsProgrammer/journalist; team collaboration on data

projects/processTeaching technology in communication programs – Web

design, programming, dataUse of social media in the classroom – SXTXState.com,

TXStateMCWeekcom, TXStateOfChange.comSeek inspiration from

data presentations to incorporate into academic research

Making research more useful/accessible

INTERSECTIONS

OPPORTUNITY

NYT, Nov. 2012