Digital Journalism
Professor David Silver (dmsilver [at] usfca.edu)
Class Times: Tues, Thurs, 10:30am - 12:15pm | Education 319
Office Hours: Tues, Thurs, 2-3; and by appointment | UC 539
Course Description:
Journalism and the ways news and stories are made, distributed, received, and altered are changing rapidly and profoundly. Digital Journalism encourages students to trace, track, understand, and learn how to participate in these changes, especially those changes related to the web and other forms of digital media.
Learning Goals:
Students enrolled in Digital Journalism will:
1. Learn about the current and dramatic transformation that is happening in traditional journalism as well as other media-related industries;
2. Learn about web-based tools and technologies for gathering and assessing news and stories (like blogs, crowdsourcing, del.icio.us, digg, RSS, and wikis);
3. Learn about web-based tools and technologies for creating and distributing news and stories (like audio slideshows, blogs, flickr, online maps, podcasts, and digital video); and, most importantly,
4. Learn how to learn new tools quickly and independently.
Course Texts:
o Mark Briggs, Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive: A digital literacy guide for the information age. (Free! www.j-lab.org/Journalism_20.pdf)
o Dan Gillmor, portions of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People. (Free! www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book)
o Mark Glaser and Jennifer Woodard Maderazo, portions of MediaShift blog (Free! www.pbs.org/mediashift/)
o A one-year Flickr pro account subscription, $24.95
o You are required to make, purchase, or barter for a bound, paper-based journal.
Grading:
Projects 50%
Final Project 10%
Participation 20%
Collaboration 20%
Rules:
Regular class attendance is expected and required. If you miss class for any reason, it is your responsibility to find out what you missed. This means first contacting fellow students and then, if they can't answer your questions, contacting me. Excessive absences will factor significantly into the class participation portion of your grade.
No late work accepted without a written doctor's letter.
If at any time during the first thirteen weeks of the semester you are concerned about your grade, make an appointment to see me.
You are encouraged to be as creative and collaborate as you can be.
Schedule:
Week 1:
Tuesday, January 22: Introductions: Who are we? What is this?
Due in class: Ourselves
Thursday, January 24:
- Mark Briggs, “Foreword” & “Introduction,” Journalism 2.0, pp. 4-10.
- Dan Gillmor, “Introduction,” We the Media, pp. ix-xviii.
- Mark Glaser, Traditional Media Ready to Elevate the Conversation Online - with Moderation,” MediaShift
- Richard Pérez-Peña, “Los Angeles Times Editor Forced Out,” New York Times (January 21, 2008).
Tuesday, January 29: Technology Tuesdays: RSS
Read/Watch:
- Briggs, “FTP, MB, RSS, oh My!” (ignore ftp section, pp. 22-23), Journalism 2.0, pp. 11-24.
- Common Craft, “RSS in Plain English”
- Glaser, "Your Guide to RSS,” MediaShift
Your new journal
Thursday, January 31:
Read:
- Gillmor, “From Tom Paine to Blogs and Beyond,” We the Media, pp. 1-22.
- Gillmor, “The Read-Write Web,” We the Media, pp. 23-43.
- Glaser, “Rethinking the Mercury News ... with Community Participation,” MediaShift
- Jennifer Woodard Maderazo, “Food Lovers Become Experts at Chowhound, Yelp,” MediaShift
RSS homework
Week 3:
Tuesday, February 5 (California’s Primaries!): Technology Tuesdays: Flickr
Read:
- Briggs, “Shooting and Managing Digital Photos,” Journalism 2.0, pp. 80-88.
- Keri Smith, “100 Ideas”
- Wikipedia, “Tag (metadata)”
Flickr pro account
Thursday, February 7:
Read:
- Glaser, “The Working Journalist in the Age of the Internet,” MediaShift
- Library of Congress, flickr page
- David Weinberger, “Library of Congress partners with Flickr…and you (= socialized metadata),” Joho the Blog
Project 1: Flickr campus project
Week 4:
Tuesday, February 12: Technology Tuesdays: Blogs
Read:
- Briggs, “How to Blog,” Journalism 2.0, pp. 52-61.
- Global Voices, “Introduction to Citizen Media,” (also in Spanish and in Bengali.)
- Karen Schneider (a USF graduate!), “How to be ‘famous’ (wink wink, nudge nudge),” Free Range Librarian
Due in class:
- Project 2: Blog up-and-running project
Tuesday, February 19: Technology Tuesdays: digg and del.icio.us
Read/Watch:
- Briggs, “Web 2.0,” Journalism 2.0, pp. 25-33.
- Glaser, “Digg Users Show Strength in Numbers in DVD Dust-Up,” MediaShift
- Mike Wesch, "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us"
Read:
- Trebor Scholz, “A History of the Social Web,” Journalisms
Project 3: del.icio.us project
Week 6:
Tuesday, February 26: Technology Tuesdays: google maps
Read:
- Briggs, “Tools and Toys,” Journalism 2.0, pp. 34-40.
- Briggs, “New Reporting Methods,” Journalism 2.0, pp. 41-51.
- Gillmor, “Professional Journalists Join the Conversation,” We the Media, pp. 110-135.
- Tiffany Maleshefski, “Back in My Day...” Desktop Confidential
Read:
- Glaser, “Your Guide to Hyper-Local News,” MediaShift
Project 4: google map project
Week 7:
Tuesday, March 4: Technology Tuesdays: audio slideshows
Read:
- Briggs, “How to Report News for the Web,” Journalism 2.0, pp. 62-68.
- lots of Mindy McAdams, Teaching Online Journalism
- lots of Bryan Murley, Innovation in College Media
Audio slideshow
Thursday, March 6:
Due in class:
Project 5: audio slideshow
Week 8:
Tuesday, March 11:
Read/Watch:
- David Edwards and Nick Juliano, “Iraqi blood is ‘on your hands,’ anti-war protester tells Condi,” Raw Story
- Media Giraffe Project, The New Pamphleteers (DVD)
- Mallary Jean Tenore, “Journalists Develop, Dismiss Digital Identities,” Poynteronline
- Jennifer Woodard Maderazo, “The Benefits and Pitfalls of Using Social Media for Reporting,” MediaShift
Due in class:
Project 6: Global Women’s Rights Forum project
Tuesday, March 18: Spring Break!
Thursday, March 20: Spring Break!
Week 9:
Tuesday, March 25: Technology Tuesdays: podcasts
Read:
- Briggs, “Digital Audio and Podcasting,” Journalism 2.0, pp. 69-79.
- Glaser, “Your Guide to Podcasts,” MediaShift
Due in class:
Project 7: podcast project
Week 10:
Tuesday, April 1: Technology Tuesdays: wikipedia
Read:
- Stacy Schiff, “Know It All: Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?” The New Yorker (July 31, 2006)
- Glaser, “Your Guide to Wikis,” MediaShift
- Alex Halavais, “Wikia Search Alpha,” a thaumaturgical compendium
- Anil Dash, “Google and Theory of Mind”
Read:
- Ann M. Lally and Carolyn E. Dunford, “Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections,” D-Lib Magazine (May/June 2007)
Project 8: Wikipedia project
Week 11:
Tuesday, April 8: Technology Tuesdays: digital video
Read:
- Briggs, “Shooting Video for News and Feature Stories,” Journalism 2.0, pp. 89-99.
- Briggs, “Basic Video Editing,” Journalism 2.0, pp. 100-114.
Read:
- Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, “Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video,” Center for Social Media
- Jennifer Woodard Maderazo, “5 Places to Watch Movies Online Legally - and Free,” MediaShift
Tuesday, April 15:
Due in class:
Project 9: digital video project
Thursday, April: 17: No class
Week 13:
Tuesday, April 22: Technology Tuesdays: Politics 2.0
Read:
- Gillmor, “The Consent of the Governed,” We the Media, pp. 88-109.
- Glaser, “TechPresident, 10 Questions Put Spotlight on ‘Voter-Generated Content,’” MediaShift
- Ndesanjo Macha, “Kenya: Cyberactivism in the aftermath of political violence,” Global Voices
Due in class:
Project 10: Politics 2.0 project
Week 14:
Tuesday, April 29:
Read:
Thursday, May 1:
Read:
Week 15:
Tuesday, May 6:
Read:
- Glaser, “10 Reasons There’s a Bright Future for Journalism,” MediaShift
- Glaser, “Imagining a Future Tense for Newspapers,” MediaShift
- Mindy McAdams, “The slow crawl of journalism education,” Teaching Online Journalism
Due in class:
Final Project
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