Presentation at TXST Graduate Research Symposium

1. RESEARCHING DIGITAL MEDIA
Cindy Royal, Ph.D.
A s s o c i a te P r o f e s s o r
S c h o o l o f J o u r n a l i s m a n d M a s s C o m m un i ca t i o n
Tex a s S t a te U n i v e r s i t y
c i n d y roya l .c o m
w w w. s l i d e s h a r e. n et / c l royal / r e s e a rc h i n g - d ig i t al - m e d ia

2. RESEARCHING DIGITAL MEDIA

3. PRODUCERS
 The Journalist as Programmer: A Case Study of The New York
Times Interactive News Technology Department - #ISOJ
 Open Innovation in Digital Journalism: Examining the Impact of
Open APIs at Four News Organizations – NM&S; Aitamurto &
Lewis
 Innovation Processes in Online Newsrooms as Actor-Networks
and Communities of Practice – NM&S; Schmitz-Weiss & Domingo
 The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady – NY Magazine
 Lone Star Trailblazer: Will Texas Tribune Transform Journalism? –
CJR
 Theories: Media Sociology/Social
Meaning of News; Diffusion of Innovation;
Programmer/Journalist
 Methods: Case Study, Ethnography,
Interview, Survey

4. PRODUCTS
 Interactives of Olympic Proportions: The Dif fusion of Data
Journalism at The New York Times
 The Interactive News Graphics of the Guardian and the New
York Times (marijerooze.nl/thesis/graphics) – Marije Rooze
 Twitter First: Changing T V News 140 Characters at a Time –
#ISOJ
 Twittering the News: The Emergence of Ambient Journalism –
Journalism Practice
 Theories: Dif fusion of Innovation;
Interactivity
 Methods: Content
Analysis, Qualitative Methods

5. PEOPLE
 Pew Internet and American Life Project
 The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:"
Social Capital and College Students'
Use of Online Social Network Sites –
JCMC; Ellison, Steinfield, Lampe
 It's Complicated: The Social Lives of
Networked Teens – Danah Boyd
 Mobile News Adoption Among Young Adults: Examining the
Roles of Perceptions, News Consumption, and Media Usage -
JMCQ; Chan-Olmstead, Rim and Zerba
 Methods: Survey, Interviews, Focus Groups, Observation
 Theories: Uses and Gratifications; Media Ef fects, Impression
Management; Identity; Cultural Theories; Virtual
Community, Social Capital; Network Theory

6. PEDAGOGY
 Creating Collegiate Media Opportunities in
the Classroom Using Social Media: A Case
Study of Experiential Learning
 Journalism Schools Need to Get Better at
Teaching Tech Where the Girls Are –
Nieman Journalism Lab
 Curriculum issues
 Online Learning & Distance Education
 Methods: Case Study, Experiments, Thought Pieces
 Theories: Dif fusion of Innovation; Network Theory;
Experiential Learning

7. DATA
 Pew Internet
 U.S. Census
 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 World Bank Open Data Sources
 Patchwork Nation
 Texas Tribune
 The Guardian

8. BIG THINKERS
 Social Networking Sites: Definition, History and Scholarship –
Boyd & Ellison
 Social Networking Sites…Revisiting the Story So Far: A
Response to Danah Boyd & Nicole Ellison – David Beer
 Lawrence Lessig
 Henry Jenkins
 Clay Shirky
 Manual Castells
 Sherry Turkle
 Chris Anderson’s – The Long Tail and Free

9. INTERSECTIONS
 The intersection of the roles of producer and consumer;
citizen journalism; user -generated content
 Cross-disciplinary collaborations
 Programmer/journalist; team collaboration on data
projects/process
 Teaching technology in communication programs – Web
design, programming, data
 Use of social media in the classroom – SXTXState.com,
TXStateMCWeekcom, TXStateOfChange.com
 Seek inspiration from
data presentations to
incorporate into academic
research
 Making research more
useful/accessible

10. OPPORTUNIT Y
NYT, Nov. 2012