JOUR 48000: Mobile &Social Media Journalism
Articles from Communication Source
- Communication Source (EBSCO)Contains content from communications journals, magazines and other publications, covering related disciplines including linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, and media studies.
Contents: Indexing, abstracts, and full-text articles. 1900-present.
Here are some sample searches:
1. Journalism AND ("tablet computers" or "mobile communication" or "wireless communication" or "cell phone" or "cellular telephone" or smartphones or iphone or "camera phones")
2. Journalism AND (Google or Facebook or Twitter or YouTube or "social media" or "online social networks")
3. Journalism AND apps
4. "Online journalism" and "social media"
Professional Reading
Recommended for class:
- First Draft News
Nonprofit resource for verifying news sources from social media by journalism experts and a coalition of news organizations. Includes case studies. - PBS Media Shift Daily (Mark Glaser). The sign up is in the left column (scroll down).
- Nieman Jounalism Lab Sign up for daily or weekly alerts. You can also download the iPhone app.
- Knight Digital Media Center Create an account and subscribe to the newsletter.
Other sources:
- American Journalism Review website: AJR
- American Press Institute Sign up for the "Need to Know" newsletter
- ars technica (general tech news)
- The Buttry Diary (Steve Buttry's blog)
- Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) Ryan Chittum writes for "The Audit: on the business press"
- GigaOm: Mobile general news
- JimRomenesko.com: A blog about media and other things I'm Interested In
- Mediactive (Dan Gillmor's blog)
- MediaPost: Moblile Maketing Daily l &/or Online Marketing Daily (more from the advertising perspective)
- Nieman reports (Harvard Nieman Foundation) website: Nieman Reports
- Online Journalism Review (OJR, USC Annenberg)
- Online News Association (ONA): News
- Online Publishers Association (OPA): Industry News
- Poynter Institute Look for their Mobile Media beat
- Pew Research Center They have research projects on "People & the Press" the "Journalism Project" and "Internet and American Life Project"
- Quill (magazine by SPJ)
- SmartBrief on Social Media (aggregated news alerts)
- TechCrunch: Mobile (from the tech perspective)
- Trust but Verify (Staci D. Kramer)
- WIRED (general tech news)
Social Media
Some sources to follow in social media:
- @AmJourReview
- @AmPress
- @arstechnica
- @CJR
- @CJR/journo-tweets
- @dangillmor (Dan Gillmor)
- @DMLPBerkman
- @gigastacey (Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM)
- @HacksHackers
- @mediatwit (Mark Glaser, PBS Media Shift)
- @NAAupdates
- @Newsandtech
- @RJI
- @OJR
- @ONA
- @OPA
- @OPA_PamHoran (Pat Horan, Pres. of OPA)
- @jayrosen_nyu (Jay Rosen, NYU)
- @jeffsonderman (Jeff Sonderman, API)
- @journtoolbox (from #SPJ)
- @mathewi (Mathew Ingram, GigaOM)
- @NiemanReports
- @PBSMediaShift
- @pewresearch
- @Poynter
- @Romenesko (Jim Romenesko)
- @SocialNewsDeck
- @sdkstl (Staci D Kramer)
- @SteveButtry
- @TimKarr
- @TwitterForNews
- @WIRED
