DMST 3900 /MCOM 3160
Winter 2010
Tuesdays+Thursdays 2:00 pm - 3:50 pm TR Sturm Hall 434
Graduate, Undergraduate
Professor: Adrienne Russell
Office Hours: Tuesday 4:00-5:00 or by apt.
Office: Sturm Hall 212 Contact: adrienne.russell@du.edu
Course Blog: http://2010networked.blogspot.com/
This course traces the shift that has taken place over the past 15 years from mass-mediated journalism to networked journalism, with emphasis on experiments in citizen and open-source news and the changing relationship between journalists and their publics. Students will critically assess some of the most controversial news coverage of the era—including coverage of the first Gulf War, the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and recent civil unrest in France—in order to analyze emerging news cultures and practices and their impact on the public and on democracy more generally.
BOOKS
Charlie Beckett, SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World
Michael Schudson, Sociology Of News
BLOGS TO CHECK OUT
Polis Director’s Blog http://www.charliebeckett.org/
Online Journalism Blog http://onlinejournalismblog.com/
Cyersoc.com http://www.cybersoc.com/
PDA http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/digitalcontent/
Wordblog http://www.wordblog.co.uk/
Polis http://www.charliebeckett.org/
SacredFacts http://www.sambrook.typepad.com/sacredfacts/
Virtual Economics http://virtualeconomics.typepad.com/virtualeconomics/
SimonWaldman.net http://www.simonwaldman.net/blog/
Buzzmachine http://www.buzzmachine.com/
Pressthink http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/
SocialMedia http://www.socialmedia.biz/
Adrian Holovaty http://www.holovaty.com/blog/
Teaching online journalism http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/
First Draft http://www.timporter.com/firstdraft/
Journerdism http://www.journerdism.com/index.php
Robcurley http://www.robcurley.com/
Yelvington .com http://www.yelvington.com/
Romenesko http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45
Hypergene http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php
Online News Association http://journalists.org/2007conference/
ASSIGNMENTS/EXAM
Discussion Group Leader
Due date varies (but always 24 hours before assigned session).
Each student will serve as discussion leader for part of one class session. As discussion group leader, you will be expected to read ahead, and read thoroughly, for your assigned session. At least 24 hours prior to your assigned class, blog 500-700 word response that identifies overarching themes and questions that we need to be sure to discuss. This can be in the form of a narrative or an outline with a list of thought-provoking questions. Include between one and three links to news stories, blog posts, youtube videos, or other materials that are relevant to and/or expressive of ideas and themes in the readings.
Respondent
Due date varies (but always 6 hours before assigned session).
Each student will serve as respondent for one session. As respondent, you are expected to select one of the readings for the day and to also read the discussion group leader’s blogged responses to the readings. Then, you will write your own one-page (300 word) response/question to the reading(s) and the posted links. Add one of your own links to the blog. The respondent is also responsible, with the leader, for making facilitating the class discussion.
Blog
You will receive an invitation via email to join our blog group. Please follow the directions in the email. At least 2 times over the course of the quarter you should post a paragraph or two and links to something related to networked journalism. Please also use the blog to share research resources with each other.
Midterm
There will be one essay exam. You will be allowed to use any resources you like to inform your work, including classmates, the internet, books, articles, email exchanges with your parents, whatever. You must, however, use your own words to craft the answers to the questions and you must do so in the time allotted for the exam.
Paper Prospectus
The research prospectus should serve as an outline for your research paper. It should be 3-4 double-spaced pages and should include:
1) a clear statement of your research question;
2) a description of specifically what you are going to look at (ie, audiences/users/producers, media content, media institutions);
3) an outline of the theoretical and empirical literature that will inform your work;
4) a preliminary bibliography.
Final Paper
Choose networked journalism product, organization, idea, trend, or treatment of a particular story and evaluate it by comparing it to traditional newsmedia products and norms. Your paper should be between 5-7 double-spaced pages and should use either APA or MLA style of bibliographic reference. All papers must build on literature in the field and include a literature review.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students
Blog Facilitation
Graduate students taking the course will be asked to act as blog facilitors. This means that
in addition to regular course blog assignments, graduate students are required to regularly
read blog entries, to comment and add relevant links, and to pose questions in order to
keep the blog conversation active and flowing.
Specific Research Paper Requirements
Graduate students are required to write a full length (18-25 double-spaced pages)
research paper.
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