Syllabus
Catalog Description
This class is aimed at understanding the computational and technological advancements in the area of journalism. Aimed at the study of technologies for developing new tools to themes such as (a) sense-making from diverse news information sources, (b) the impact of more and cheaper networked sensors (c) collaborative human models for information aggregation and sense-making, (d) mashups and the use of programming in journalism, (e) the impact of mobile computing and data gathering, (f) computational approaches to information quality, (g) data mining for personalization and aggregation, and (h) citizen journalism.
Books
- [K&R] Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel (2007). The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect. 2007. Three Rivers Press. (Amazon $11.16)
Grading
Both the UG section (CS 4803cj) and the Grad section (CS 8803cj) will meet together and share every effort, except one. Grad students will be required to lead and critique a paper or a journalism project or site in class and with a report (15 min presentation). Each group will be compared separately for final grade assignments.
CS 4803
- Assignments 1, 2, 3 (48%, 16% each)
- Class and Online Participation (20%)
- Final Project 32%
- Includes, Proposal, 2 updates, presentation, demonstration, and report
CS 8803cj
- Assignments 1, 2, 3 (36%, 12% each)
- In class paper presentation or a critique of a journalism effort/site. (12%)
- Class and Online Participation (20%)
- Final Project (32%)
- Includes, Proposal, 2 updates, presentation, demonstration, and report
Topics to be COVERED in this class include:
- Overview of Journalism and Computational Disciplines
- News Gathering and
- Mobile Computing for news
- People as Sensors: Citizen Journalism, Implications
- Citizen Journalism
- Mobile Computing for news
- The Theory of Reporting and how computation participates
- Storytelling with a Purpose
- Contextualization & Sense-making
- Information Quality, Bias in Reporting, Journalistic Values
- Storytelling with a Purpose
- The Practice of Reporting and the impact of Computing
- Different Types/Styles of Reporting
- The Blogsphere and Reporting
- Citizen Journalism
- Different Types/Styles of Reporting
- Web 2.0, Semantic Web and WEB Science
- Social Networking and Dynamics and NEWs / DATA collection.
- Automated Reporting and Programming in Journalism
- Generation of Newscasts and Documentaries
- Mashups: Webservices, Online Data Sources
- Investigative Programming
- Generation of Newscasts and Documentaries
- Computational Analysis of News Archives
- Web Crawling / Scraping
- Sentiment Analysis
- Topic Detection and Tracking
- Video Analysis
- Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Web Crawling / Scraping
- Visual Design, Illustration, and Visualization of News
- Visual Communication and Information Design
- Visualizing News Information
- Visual Communication and Information Design
- News Aggregation / Summarization / Personalization
- Value Added Information Science
- Models: Open Source (Wikification), Editor Based, Mixed
- Automated Aggregation/Clustering vs. Person Powered Aggregation
- Value Added Information Science
- Editing/Credibility/Authority/Reliability
- Authoring, Authority, Credibility
- The Role of the Editor, How is the web changing that.
- Authoring, Authority, Credibility
- Image and Video Manipulation
- Tools / Techniques for Manipulation
- Manipulation Detection and Digital Forensics
- Ethics
- Tools / Techniques for Manipulation
- News Consumption and Distribution
- Interactivity: Not Just Consumption
- Audience and Audience Measurement
- Distribution Models, Media, Technologies
- Interactivity: Not Just Consumption
- Advertising and the News
- News Gaming
- Legal Aspects
- Ethics / Morality / Subjectivity
- Media Monitoring
- Information Accessibility
- Sensemaking
- Networked Journalism
- Syndication
- Information Science
- Reputation / Recommender Systems