February 2010
30 posts
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Conversational Journalism Players (Part 5 in a...
Sheizaf Rafaeli*: Long before others, Rafaeli (pictured here courtesy Wikipedia) urged media scholars to take interactivity — in fact, everything about the Internet — seriously. His ground-breaking 1988 essay on the issue in Advancing Communication Science: Merging Mass and Interpersonal Processes defined interactivity as not just feedback (think of a letter-to-an-editor with no response from the...
NYU Business School Professor Has Mastered The Art... →
ohheygreat:
sasquatchmedia:
Nice. I dare you to turn in a diss that consists of one and only one word: “Period.” You tell your committee it represents the existential angst in the sociology of medicine with regards to how physicians navigate the transition from paper to electronic records.
Then you excuse yourself because of “gas” and grab a drink with your friends at the local pub.
You...
NYU Business School Professor Has Mastered The Art... →
ohheygreat:
sasquatchmedia:
Heh heh. Well, it is pretty nice—less drinking and more brain cells to spare these days, I guess. Thanks for the sentiments. Are you in school?
At the risk of being world’s most annoying reblogger today (HI EVERYONE DON’T HATE ME), I decided to answer on my stream because I figured what the heck: This way I can say a little more about what I do when I’m not...
NYU Business School Professor Has Mastered The Art... →
ohheygreat:
sasquatchmedia:
tiffehr:
Deadspin, via Marketplace.org radio, which quoted the best bit (no spoilers) right as I drove into my bland-as-hell suburban workplace “campus”. I’ll consider it a break-even day.
Having just gotten out of grad school, I can say this e-mail exchange between student-prof is priceless. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but dang, it’s a fun read....
NYU Business School Professor Has Mastered The Art... →
tiffehr:
Deadspin, via Marketplace.org radio, which quoted the best bit (no spoilers) right as I drove into my bland-as-hell suburban workplace “campus”. I’ll consider it a break-even day.
Having just gotten out of grad school, I can say this e-mail exchange between student-prof is priceless. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but dang, it’s a fun read. Thanks tiffehr!
Journalism as a Conversation: Horse-Sex Analytics... →
essdogg:
… Or How to Tap Your Audience Without Selling Out
AOL’s use of Web analytics to help decide news coverage might well be the definition of a double-bladed sword in journalism these days:
On the upside, it allows the audience to play, albeit indirectly through click-votes. That’s good…
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I have a number of disjointed thoughts regarding this post that for some reason are...
“Before we parted company that day, I shared an insight with the doctoral...”
– Robert E. Quinn (via thecusp)
Jesus, this resonates. Who needs rules anyway when there’s whiskey. Thanks for sharing! Need to look up this Quinn guy.
Journalism as a Conversation: Horse-Sex Analytics... →
newmediasoc:
… Or How to Tap Your Audience Without Selling Out
AOL’s use of Web analytics to help decide news coverage might well be the definition of a double-bladed sword in journalism these days:
On the upside, it allows the audience to play, albeit indirectly through click-votes. That’s good…
Interesting and well-considered thoughts on AOL’s decision to use Web stats to curate its news...
Horse-Sex Analytics ...
… Or How to Tap Your Audience Without Selling Out
AOL’s use of Web analytics to help decide news coverage might well be the definition of a double-bladed sword in journalism these days:
On the upside, it allows the audience to play, albeit indirectly through click-votes. That’s good because, as my research found, giving the public a greater role in journalism can actually aid...
Should Web Analytics Decide the News? →
AOL now using Web analytics to decide coverage. Lots to mull with that one.
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Conversational Journalism: Six Powerful Dimensions...
What is journalism-as-a-conversation, at least in the experience of online audiences? I used my doctorate to figure that out. A search of fields as varied as computer network analysis and political communication revealed a half dozen or so key features, or variables, to conversation:
* Coorientation/homophily: perceived similarity (two types) to journalist.
* Social presence: perceived humanness...
Homebrew CPU →
Too badass for words: This journalism grad built his own computer. Thanks for the alert, @Yelvington!
When Scandals Strike Celebrities Like Tiger Woods,... →
Smart advice on covering scandals: Do it with principles.
Feminizing the news?
This month’s Asinine Comments Award goes to Shane Goodman, publisher/editor of Central Iowa alt weekly Cityview. He complains in a column that women journalists at his competitor Des Moines Register are softening the news with home-decor fluff. Then he urges readers to check out his mag’s cover story on how the ladies can make themselves irresistible to men.
Forget, as Register...
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Conversational Journalism Players (Part 4 in a...
Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass: In theory at least, the Internet allows real communication between the public and journalists in real time with the greatest of ease, potentially en masse thanks to crowd-sourcing tools such as Twitter. That’s conversational journalism to a tee. But who says that kind of communication will work anyway? Reeves* (pictured left above) and Nass (pictured right,...
irreverend:
Speaking of journalism as a conversation, here is an interesting project: ExplainThis.org is trying to start a dialogue with readers by having reporters answer their news-related questions in an open forum.
At its best, it’s like a two-way comments stream. At its worst, it’s idiots shouting into the void.
I’m not sure how I feel about it yet — most of the questions seem to miss...
To Enable (Comments) or Not to Enable
I wrote a bit about news-story commenting in a post last week. But I want to come back to the issue, partly in light of discussions at the Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) NewsTrain Workshop I attended in Tacoma, Wash.
When I talk to editors about my online research on journalism-as-a-conversation, they often ask if that just refers to story comments. It doesn’t. Conversational journalism...
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Conversational Journalism Players (Part 3 in a...
John Dewey: A philosopher and seriously deep thinker, he’s best known for The Public and Its Problems, a mini-treatise on repairing what he described in the 1920s as the “eclipsed public” in American democracy. He’s best known for his debates with scholar Walter Lippmann over whether power in society ought to rest with ordinary people or educated elites (Dewey was firmly on the side of...
In Praise of Scarcity
Author’s note: I intend to keep the language in this blog pretty clean, unlike in my real life. But there are a few salty words below, so I’m warning you now.
The New York Times’ obit on J. D. Salinger a week ago reminded us of the power of scarcity: The fewer stories he wrote and the less we knew about him, the more obsessed we became about him. Less supply, more demand.
I thought about that in...
A Toast to Your Newsroom Ad Rep ...
irreverend:
sasquatchmedia:
irreverend:
sasquatchmedia:
… If the Internet’s done anything, it’s revealed the necessity of cross-departmental communication/collaboration at news companies. They won’t survive without it.
Even if death weren’t looming, advertising, circulation and news ought to be best pals because their audiences are the same. The person reading your news story is the same...
A Toast to Your Newsroom Ad Rep ...
essdogg:
sasquatchmedia:
irreverend:
sasquatchmedia:
… If the Internet’s done anything, it’s revealed the necessity of cross-departmental communication/collaboration at news companies. They won’t survive without it.
Even if death weren’t looming, advertising, circulation and news ought to be best pals because their audiences are the same. The person reading your news story is the same one...
A Toast to Your Newsroom Ad Rep ...
irreverend:
sasquatchmedia:
… If the Internet’s done anything, it’s revealed the necessity of cross-departmental communication/collaboration at news companies. They won’t survive without it.
Even if death weren’t looming, advertising, circulation and news ought to be best pals because their audiences are the same. The person reading your news story is the same one reading your ad. And thanks...
A Toast to Your News Ad Rep ...
Musings From APME News Train Northwest Workshop
I like to drink, which is either why I’m a journalist (make that journalism researcher) or a symptom of it. Journalism conferences, for practitioners or researchers, bring out the effusive drinkers in us all, and I always bank on that.
This past week’s Associated Press Managing Editors NewsTrain Workshop in Tacoma, Wash. was no...
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The Public's Role in Journalism
Why care about the public anyway? You may have noticed Romenesko abuzz a few months back over what mainstream newsrooms should do about online story commenting, especially despicable or asinine speech. Newsrooms are waking up to the reality that online audiences appear to want to participate in the news. One way citizens can do that is through feedback/discussion rolls on stories.
Yet journalists...
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Conversational Journalism Players (Part 9 in a...
Dan Gillmor: If any journalism professor deserves an award for pushing conversational journalism into public consciousness these days, it’s Gillmor.* Nothing is implied or insinuated in his seminal We the Media: Grassroots Journalism, by the People, for the People. He used the term “journalism as a conversation” explicitly in the kind of collaborative contexts we’ve come to understand it by....
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Figuring Out This Tumblr Thing
I almost forgot to mention that I am presenting my dissertation data at the Associated Press Managing Editor’s NewsTrain Workshop at The News Tribune* in Tacoma, Wash. today and tomorrow.
Go conversational journalism!
Can’t go? Want a copy of my presentation and handout? Then go to the Goodies section at SasquatchMedia.com.
*Apologies for linking to a site that runs obtrusive Adobe...
