1. News As User Experience...Or Journalism and Data: The New BFFs Cindy Royal, Ph.D Associate Professor Texas State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication croyal@txstate.edu www.cindyroyal.com www.onthatnote.com tech.cindyroyal.net twitter.com/cindyroyal facebook.com/cindyroyal linkedin.com/in/cindyroyal

2. News as User Experience Social networks and media having an effect on traditional media Web 2.0 sites share the characteristic of user-generated content Increased expectation on part of user as to participation News examples: comments, ratings, blogs, user-generated photos and videos; news sites on Facebook, using Twitter News sites run the risk of seeming outdated or irrelevant if you don't give users something to do Rise of participatory culture – Henry Jenkins in Convergence Culture

3. News as User Experience Portable: 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones. Personalized: 28% of internet users have customized their home page to include news from sources and on topics that particularly interest them. Participatory: 37% of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter. Digital Natives - more than half of American teenagers have created a blog, posted an artistic or written creation online, helped build a website, created an online profile, or uploaded photos and videos to a website. Pew – Participatory News Consumer & Digital Natives

4. News as User Experience Changing idea of news Breaking news Mobile – expectation of receiving news anywhere, on demand Relationship with community, sources Role of user experience Rise of tools available to work with and present data

5. Examples New York Times – Rent or Buy http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calculator.html

6. Examples New York Times – Mapping the Nation's Well-Being http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/06/weekinreview/20110306-happiness.html

7. Examples New York Times – Budget Forecast Compared with Reality http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/02/us/politics/20100201-budget-porcupine-graphic.html

8. Examples Guardian – Obama at 50 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/aug/04/barack-obama-50-birthday-interactive

9. Examples NYT – Census: Mapping America http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer

10. Examples NYT Inaugural Words http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/17/washington/20090117_ADDRESSES.html

11. Examples NYT Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/26/sports/olympics/20100226-olysymphony.html

12. Examples CNN Money: Best Companies to Work For http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2011/word_cloud/index.html

13. Examples ProPublica - The Opportunity Gap http://projects.propublica.org/schools/

14. Examples Stanford – The Growth of Newspapers Across the US http://www.stanford.edu/group/ruralwest/cgi-bin/drupal/visualizations/us_newspapers

15. Examples Texas Tribune http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/

16. Examples Stamen Design – MTV Movie Awards Twitter Visualization http://stamen.com/clients/mtv

17. Examples Location collaborations http://www.statesman.com/business/statesman-teams-up-with-gowalla-for-austin-virtual-724228.html

18. Examples Storify http://storify.com/

19. Tools Chartle/Wordle Google Charts and Visualizations Google Fusion Tables Google Maps Visual.ly Ruby on Rails or Django

20. Resources When the Data Struts Its Stuff – NYT - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/business/03stream.html?_r=1 Teaching with Infographics – NYT - http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/teaching- with-infographics-places-to-start/ Renegades at The New York Times – New York Magazine - http://nymag.com/news/features/all-new/53344/ Data Journalism at the Guardian: What It Is and How Do We Do It? - http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jul/28/data-journalism The Programmer Majored in English – Nieman Journalism Lab - http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/05/the-programmer-majored-in-english-a-fascinating-study-of- the-nyts-interactive-news-unit/ Poynter – Data-driven Journalism articles http://www.poynter.org/tag/data-driven-journalism/ Stanford – Journalism in the Age of Data - http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/ Hacks/Hackers – hackshackers.com 11 Journalism Jobs You May Hold in the Future - http://sustainablejournalism.org/future-of- journalism/journalism-jobs-may-hold-future Course sites: – Advanced Online Media - cindyroyal.com/advanced – Issues in New Media - cindyroyal.com/newmedia – Social Media at Work - cindyroyal.com/social – Web Design and Publishing - cindyroyal.com/webdesign

21. Other Reading Clay Shirky – Here Comes Everybody & Cognitive Surplus Dan Gillmor – We the Media & Mediactive Jeff Jarvis – What Would Google Do? Max McCombs - The Future of News Douglas Rushkoff - Program or Be Programmed: 10 Commandments for a Digital Age Henry Jenkins - Convergence Culture Ian Bogost – Newsgames: Journalism at Play James Surowiecki – The Wisdom of Crowds