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Participant Journalism & Journalism Participation: Interacting & Authoring in New Media
By BradStenger | January 14, 2008
‘Participatory Journalism’ would have been the easy, obvious name for this panel. But nothing about getting the public involved with its news is easy or obvious. The difficulty, as our panelists will tell you, is that the interaction design requires a fine balance between information and engagement; of making the important interesting. Working in new media (like games, user-generated content, and interactive information graphics) compounds the difficulty of designing these interfaces. And the stakes are high. Competition for people’s attention is fierce, and it’s a contest that journalism cannot stay on the sidelines for. The Participatory Journalism & Journalism Participation: Interacting and Authoring in New Media panel takes up what is probably the grand challenge of the news industry. Given that, anything easy or obvious seems likely to fail. Our panelists and moderator:
- Ian Bogost, videogame designer, critic, and researcher, Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Founding Partner at Persuasive Games
- Ezra Cooperstein, Director of Development and Production for the Viewer-Created Content group at Current TV
- Lila King, Senior Producer, Interactive Storytelling and User Participation at CNN.com
- Wilson Miner, Designer and Co-Founder of Everyblock
- Nora Paul, Moderator, Director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota
Topics: Agenda/Program, Info Viz, New Media, News Interfaces, Panels |