New Media Lecture: Writing and Designing the Article, Part 2
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SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A STORY? (PART 2) I. INTRO — FROM IDEA TO COMPLETION II. BEFORE STARTING: REMEMBER HOOK, PITCH, AND STRUCTURE CONSIDER YOUR STORY: REPORTING, ANALYSIS, REPORTAGE III. WRITING THE...
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View ArticleNew Media Birmingham 2018, Week 2, Part 1: A History of Media and Politics
McLuhan: “Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools and yesterday’s concepts.” Discuss. I. INTRODUCTION A. THE GAME’S THE SAME BUT IT’S A LOT...
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View ArticleNew Media Birmingham 2018, Week 3: Technologies of New Media
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View ArticleNew Media Birmingham Week 4: Navigating the Image
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I. INTRODUCTION — GETTING CONTROL, GETTING AUTHORITY II. THE STARTING POINTS A. DEFINE YOUR TOPIC B. DEFINE THE CONTEXT C. ESTABLISH A BASE OF KNOWLEDGE 1. Researching the Case...
View ArticleNew Media Birmingham Week 5: New Media and Politics
I. INTRODUCTION A. THE GAME IS THE SAME — POLITICS HAS ALWAYS TURNED ON USING THE MEDIA B. BUT THE FIELD IS DIFFERENT — NEW MEDIA OFFERS OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES C. TO BE ON THE “INSIDE”, YOU HAVE...
View ArticleNew Media Birmingham Week 7: New Media and the International
I. INTRODUCTION: DEFINING YOUR AREA OF COVERAGE AND EXPERTISE A. Example: Trump B. Example: Brexit C. Example: Syria II. THE STARTING POINTS A. DEFINE YOUR TOPIC B. DEFINE THE CONTEXT C. ESTABLISH A...
View ArticleNew Media Birmingham Week 8: Writing the Story (Part 1)
SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A STORY? (PART 1) I. INTRODUCTION YOU KNOW AS MUCH — AND CAN EXPRESS IT AS CLEARLY — AS ANYONE BUT HOW DO YOU GET TO THAT POINT? II. THE STEPS A. OWN THE STORY — GET THE GROUNDING...
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I. INTRO — FROM IDEA TO COMPLETION Find your central point and develop…. II. BEFORE STARTING: REMEMBER HOOK, PITCH, AND STRUCTURE CONSIDER YOUR STORY: REPORTING, ANALYSIS, REPORTAGE Reporting:...
View ArticleNew Media Birmingham Week 10: Working with Video and the Image
I. INTRODUCTION A. THE MULTI-MEDIA WORLD B. THE END OF DIVISION BETWEEN PRINT AND AUDIO-VISUAL C. HOW TO PUT LITERACY INTO PRACTICE? II. STARTING POINT: THE SOCIAL IMAGE “In societies where modern...
View ArticleSocial Media’s Descent from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump
How did social media shift from spreading democracy to attacking it? You have to look beyond the digital technologies. Zeynep Tufekci writes for the MIT Technology Review: The Euphoria of Discovery As...
View ArticleNew Media Birmingham, Autumn 2018: Introduction to Media and Politics
I. POLITICAL LITERACY/MEDIA LITERACY A. POLITICAL LITERACY 1. Theories 2. Approaches 3. Analysis/Output B. MEDIA LITERACY 1. Sources-Outlets-Processes of Dissemination 2. Problem is the Deluge 3. Then...
View ArticleNew Media Birmingham, Autumn 2018, Week 2: Technologies of Media and Politics
McLuhan: “Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools and yesterday’s concepts.” Discuss. I. INTRODUCTION A. THE GAME’S THE SAME BUT IT’S A LOT...
View ArticleNew Media Birmingham, Autumn 2018, Week 3: Real News v. “Fake News”
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political,...
View ArticleTrumpWatch, Day 638: Kremlin Allies Interfering in Mid-Term Elections —...
Russian President Vladimir Putin with Donald Trump, Helsinki, July 16, 2018 The US Justice Department accuses allies of the Kremlin, following its intervention in the 2016 Presidential elections, of...
View ArticleNew Media Birmingham, Autumn 2018, Week 4: “Real”, “Fake”, and the Image
I. INTRODUCTION: STEPPING BACK FROM ASSUMPTION OF IMAGE AS “REAL” A. Faith in The “Real” of the Image “A Picture is Worth a 1000 Words” “Seeing is Believing” B. This is the Foundation of Existence, For...
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