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My Media Orbit
Hi folks. For the media diary, I made a Prezi, featuring international travel and cold ice skates.
http://prezi.com/y1rhd1f18y-s/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
My News Diet On A Quiet Blizzard Day
A couple of tools
I’m unfortunately unable to come in to class today, but I wanted to share a couple of tools I was introduced to this past year that I have found quite useful.
Pear Note ($40, OS X) is an app that integrates keystrokes, audio and video to dramatically improve the note-taking experience. It’s especially useful in interviews: As I record audio, my keystrokes are synced to audio timestamps. That way, I can easily go back and couple my notes with specific times in the interview. It’s also pretty freeing; I can take notes on facial expressions, ambiance, and other things while pegging these descriptions to specific moments in the interview. Check it out at http://www.usefulfruit.com/pearnote/
Skype Call Recorder ($30, OS X) does one thing and one thing only: it records Skype calls. This one-trick pony does its one trick especially well. Check it out at http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/
My apologies to PC users for my staying in Apple’s walled garden. For Mac users, though, hope these are useful!
Feb 11 Class
Assignment for February 11 (OPTIONAL): Select a tool that you believe has important implications for the future of news or storytelling. Come prepared to present a quick introduction to using the tool for your classmates.
Location Change: We have more than 40 people who have signed up for the class. We need a bigger room. Hence, we will now schedule our class in the room E15-341; it is by the counter with the sink (near foodcam).
February 11: The New Toolkit
In black and white movies about the golden age of newspapers, the journalist’s toolkit includes a manual typewriter, a press card and a bottle of bourbon. Today’s journalist is often asked to report a story online, lay it out for publication on paper, accompany it with a video feature or an interactive data visualization and promote it via social media. For the first half of the class, Alexis Hope, Ali Hashmi and Jude Mwenda will present some of the tools, introducing you to their capabilities and uses. For the second half of the class, students will show off some of their favorite tools and offer instructions in how to get started using these tools.
Matt’s Data Diary for Feb 5-9
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My news diet starts with a newspaper, Boston Globe, every day (except when there’s a big storm, ha!), and is followed by iPhone browsing of news apps on the train, then browsing throughout the day, often triggered by 6-7 newsletters. I often watch local TV news, but almost always just for the weather. btw, this also shows the last time I jogged and roughly how many times I shoveled.
Revised assignment schedule
Please see the revised assignment schedule for MAS 700 in the assignments tab. Please note that Media Diary assignment is now due on Feb. 18.
Media Diary & Four Hour Challenge are mandatory assignments.
Assignment for February 11 (OPTIONAL): Select a tool that you believe has important implications for the future of news or storytelling. Come prepared to present a quick introduction to using the tool for your classmates.
Assignment, due February 18 (REQUIRED): Media Diary
Maintain a media diary, tracking all media you encounter in the course of a week, where it originated, whether it was news or entertainment media. Present your diary, preferably in a way that offers summary and analysis of patterns you’ve discovered from keeping it.
Prior year examples: Adrienne’s Media Diary, Erhardt’s Media Diary, Catherine’s Media Diary, Jean’s Media Diary
(Please see the assignment schedule in the syllabus)
2015 Spring: Alpha Post
Welcome to MAS700 class website.
Our first class is on Feb. 4, 2015, Wednesday,1-4:00pm: Meet and greet, Overview, Civic Media demo. Discussion of the structure of the class, conversation about the shifts in the news environment in a digital age.
Class schedule: Wednesdays, 1-4:00pm, Location E15-359 (Media Lab, 75 Amherst/20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA)
Syllabus: http://partnews.brownbag.me/syllabus/
Units: 12 H (1-2-9)
EDIT Feb 4th: If you’d like to be added to the class list, please send: your name, 1-sentence bio, list of skills, and a photo to partnews2015ins[at]media[dot]mit[dot]edu by Friday, February 6th! When you send us this information, we will set you up with an account on the class blog.
2014 Final Projects Roundup
On May 14, 2014, the Spring 2014 crop of the Future of News and Participatory Media class delivered their final project presentations. We (Ethan, Erhardt, and Catherine) liveblogged their talks. Here they are in presentation order:
- Aleszu Bajak & Caty Arevalo: Towards Digital Fluency in the Spanish Speaking Newsroom
- Ali Hashmi & Julia Belluz: Can we use Big Data to improve Health Journalism?
- Julia Gitis: SchoolsMap
- Jude Mwenda: Mapsense: Experiments in visualisation on a 3-dimensional space
- Alex Taylor & Elissar Harati: Behind the Expert Sources: Analyzing the diversity of expert contributions in news coverage
- William Li & Tammy Drummond: The long shadow of Boston’s gun homicides
- Mine Gencel Bek: Future of Journalism Education
- Nina Cabaero & Uri Blau: News Trustee Network
- Ravi Nessman: Expertpedia
- Dalia Othman: NetStory
- Jeff Young: Wearable Diaries Project
- Hiromi Onishi: Data Workshop for Children: let your kids consume news in smarter way
- Alexis Hope & Kevin Hu: FOLD
- Stephen Suen: The Newsgame Design Toolkit
- Katerina Voutsina: WBUR connecting with the local community