Lecture
Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2008
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2008
The future of newspapers | Who killed the newspaper? | Economist.com
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008The future of newspapers | Who killed the newspaper? | Economist.com
Images in NEWS
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008NPPA Calls Newsweek’s Martha Stewart Cover “A Major Ethical Breach”
L.A. Times Photographer Fired Over Altered Image
PhotoEthics (sree.net)
Greg’s Digital Retouching Portfolio
Shooting Up On A-1
NYC24: When Photos Lie
Photo Tampering Throughout History by Hani Farid
GUEST SPEAKER: Ramesh Raskar (MIT & MERL)
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008“Less is More: Coded Computational Photography”
Speaker: Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008
Time: 2p - 3p
LOCATION: TBD (Somewhere in TSRB or in CoCB 102)
Relevant URL: http://raskar.info
Computational Photography is an emerging multi-disciplinary field that is at
the intersection of optics, signal processing, computer graphics+vision,
electronics, art, and online sharing in social networks. The field […]
GUEST SPEAKER: Rasmus Lerdorf (YAHOO!)
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Rasmus Lerdorf (YAHOO!) was kind enough to come to class and give a guest lecture on class on
A quick introduction to PHP and how it can be used to collect, analyze and distribute information.
His slides for this talk are at http://talks.php.net/show/ygatech5
He covered many things including pointers to
http://developer.yahoo.com/
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
http://www.pidgets.com/
Advanced News Summarization
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Recommender Systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommendation_system)
Firefly (http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1999/08/21243)
Grouplens (http://www.grouplens.org/)
NewsInEssence (http://lada.si.umich.edu:8080/clair/nie1/nie.cgi)
Principles of Journalism (from journalism.org)
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Principles of Journalism
(from http://www.journalism.org/resources/principles)
Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth
Its first loyalty is to citizens
Its essence is a discipline of verification
Its practitioners must maintain an independence from those they cover
It must serve as an independent monitor of power
It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise
It must strive to make the significant interesting […]
News Gathering and Mobile Technologies
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008News Gathering and Mobile Technology
Mobile Computing
People as Sensors: Citizen Journalism, Implications
Critique of Citizen Journalism Sites
Video: How mobiles changed the face of news. BBC
READINGS:
Michael Snyder. Monetizing Citizen Media. Link
Saul […]
Multimedia Reporting Examples
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Here are some examples of multimedia reports that we’ll look at and discuss in class today.
Defining the Barrier: An example of maps + video feature / narrative
The Gulf Coast in Katrina’s Wake: Maps and panoramas, spatial understanding and immediacy
War in Lebanon: timed b&w photo essay, voice overs, ambient sound, and interspersed text
Heavy Beginnings: interactive photos […]
Introduction / Overview
Monday, January 7th, 2008Tue 01/08/2008: Introduction and Overview
Overview of Journalism and Computational Disciplines
Critique of Example Interactive News Packages
ASSIGNMENT #1 Out
Ideas for First Assignment