News as User Experience

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 [email_address] www.cindyroyal.com www.onthatnote.com tech.cindyroyal.net twitter.com/cindyroyal facebook.com/cindyroyal linkedin.com/in/cindyroyal

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News sites run the risk of seeming outdated or irrelevant if you don't give users something to do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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Examples
Storify
http://storify.com/

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

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

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

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