The Indiana Daily Student newspaper printed a short piece previewing Ron Paul’s upcoming visit to Bloomington, Indiana. The great thing the editors coordinated was a little sidebox answering two questions “Who is Ron Paul?” and “Why should I care?” Wonderful. Great. This is what I want to do for my capstone, only better. I want [...]
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September 9, 2010
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It happened in the news, so what?
By Nina in Capstone, Design, HCId, Journalism, Share
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 [...]
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 8, 2010
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Why is this news story important to my life?
By Nina in Capstone, Design, HCId, Journalism, ShareReading the news can be a real drag. It’s depressing, it’s dense and you wonder if your life or the world would be any different if you read yet another article about the BP oil spill. It’s tough to connect epic war sagas to my life of sitting in front of a computer and hanging [...]
July 25, 2010
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What makes content shareable?
By Nina in Design, HCId, Journalism, ShareBelow is a graduate journalism school independent study proposal. Summary Social media may be in its infancy but its model changes as quickly as slowly as mature newsroom are evolving. In short, the divide between social and hard news media is growing further apart. Traditional or hard news values like timeliness, impact and accuracy are [...]