I’ve been pining over a blog post trying to define “social news” and “social journalists.” I want to understand if these terms already exist, what meanings they have and how they fit into our greater news community. I also hope to differentiate social journalists from entertainment news, citizen journalism and gossip. I predict I will [...]
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September 5, 2010
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Clear Vision
By Nina in Capstone, Design, HCId, Journalism, ShareBelow are two quotes from The Facebook Effect (p 54). One thing that Mark Zuckerberg can attribute to much of Facebook’s success other than a well engineered product and a great idea is a clear vision. As I am learning from David Kirkpatrick’s book and my personal experience as an active Facebook user is the [...]
September 1, 2010
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Accidental News Explorer
By Nina in DesignFrom Obama to Efron – The Accidental News Explorer iPhone app from Brendan Dawes on Vimeo. via Anna Eaglin and SwissMiss.
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August 31, 2010
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By Nina in Capstone, Design, HCId, Share
As I’m thinking more about news systems, news design and our social space this paragraph stood out to me. Bardzell, Bolter and Lowgren pretty quickly sum up why interaction design is important and why it is for people(s), not users. As digital artifacts move out of solitary, task-oriented use situations and into the public and [...]
August 10, 2010
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Is a journalism education still useful?
By Nina in Capstone, Design, HCId, Journalism, PoynterYes. Very useful. Carrie Hoover asked a group of grads “is a journalism-centric education is still useful in today’s job market?” for a piece she’s doing for the Society for News Design Denver Conference. Here’s what I wrote back, the bottom bit is the most interesting. I am grateful for every second of my journalism [...]