You never know when just an act of fun can turn into a social media frenzy. The article titled “How an Atlanta Ice Skater Made a Viral Video Go Worldwide“, byTerri Thorton, is an amazing example of how an innocent video placed on a social media outlet can go a long way in the world. The article […]
“Reporters and journalism students must stop thinking about sound as an exclusively radio format and adopt it as a reporting tool that can be learned and used to effectively deliver information to readers or listeners.” –Jim Stovall Audio journalism, very simply and obviously put, is getting journalism out through the means of audio. Audio allows the listener to […]
This couldn’t be a better article for the relevance of this Comm. 361 Online Journalism class. This article gives an excellent overview of some innovative websites that can be used for classes dealing with journalism. MediaShift is a website which tracks how social media, weblogs, podcasting, citizen journalism, wikis, news aggregators and online video are changing […]
We’ve all heard the expression “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Mark Briggs says, “Thanks to digital photography, words can easily be replaced with images, improving the experience for the audience and improving the efficiency of the journalist.” Copyright: toothpastefordinner.com Digital photography has become the norm in our culture. Digital photos are captured and […]
“The four billion cellphones in use around the globe carry personal information, provide access to the Web and are being used more and more to navigate the real word. And as cellphones change how we live, computer scientists say, they are also changing how we think about information.” – John Markoff “The audience is going […]
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