Trends in New Media

Trends in New Media Cindy Royal, Ph.D Assistant Professor Texas State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication [email_address] www.cindyroyal.com www.onthatnote.com cindytech.wordpress.com

Courses

Web Design and Publishing - www.cindyroyal.com/webdesign

Multimedia Journalism - www.cindyroyal.com/multij

Issues in New Media - www.cindyroyal.com/newmedia

Advanced Online Media - www.cindyroyal.com/advanced

Social Media in the Classroom

No longer required to know HTML/CSS/Web or Graphic Design/FTP/Domain Registration/Hosting to have a presence on the Web

The Web is the location of user-generated content galore

Lots of free and cheap tools that you can use in the classroom

Easy to implement

Fun for you and students

Can integrate ideas and concepts, while teaching technical skills

Milestones in Multimedia 1997 Blackhawk Down 1998 Drudge Report Google 1999 Blogger IndyMedia 2000 OhMyNews AOL/Time Warner merger 2001 DotCom Bust 9/11 Tributes Wikipedia launched 2002 Google News 2004 Jon Stewart on Crossfire Rathergate Press Credentials to Bloggers WikiNews, Facebook, Digg 2005 YouTube News Corporation buys MySpace 2006 Macaca Invention of the Year - YouTube Person of the Year - You Google Buys YouTube $1.65B 2003 RSS Google Buys Blogger MySpace launched 1995 Craigslist launched Slate, Salon, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer online 2007 VA Tech Twitter tips at SXSW Invention of the Year - iPhone CNN/ YouTube Debates Pre-1995 Wired Magazine - 1993 NY Times on AOL - 1994 Nando -1994 1996 Washington Post Wall Street Journal Chicago Tribune LA Times MSNBC 2008 CBS acquires CNET Candidates embrace social media EveryBlock.com

Key Terms

Blog

Web 2.0

User-generated content

Mobile/Moblogging

Mashup

RSS

Tag/ Tag Cloud

Podcast/Vcast

Wiki

Web-first journalism

Programmer/Journalist

OpenSocial

Widgets

Using RSS Feeds

Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication

Set up an RSS reader like iGoogle. Sign in to Google with a Google account. You can set up the theme, tabs, and specific feeds that you check.

Look for RSS icon in address bar or on page of Web site. When you click on the icon, you choose how you want to subscribe to the feed.

Set up custom RSS feeds on particular topics using Google News

Use to keep up with news and trends, resources for current events quizzes, easy access to news in class

Your blogs will have their own RSS feeds; can use to repurpose content in creative ways

Create your own feed for your online content, podcasts, etc. (xml file with links to your content) - www.wilsonweb.com/wmt8/rss_feeds.htm

Keeping Up

Google News/Yahoo News - Technology

NY Times Technology/David Pogue

Wired News

Scobleizer

TechCrunch

Digg

Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang

Techmeme

SensibleTalk.com

Social Media Today

Mashable

Blogs

Blogger - owned by Google

Very easy to get started, use

Blogger Mobile

Easy to embed media (videos, etc)‏

Variety of design themes, can customize html/css

WordPress

More robust, can make a site with pages (About, Contact, etc.); more like making an entire Web site

Good stats

Good comment spam filter

Must pay to customize css

Challenges with embedding some content

Wordpress.org – host installation on your own server

Both free

Both offer the ability to use your own domain

My Blogs

cindytech.wordpress.com - personal tech blog

royalmulti.blogspot.com - Multimedia Journalism class, combination of observations and articles.

gradnewmedia.blogspot.com - Graduate Issues in New Media class, observations from readings

sxtsu.blogspot.com - South By Texas State, coverage of SXSW Interactive, photos, video

mc1313sum08.blogspot.com - Writing for the Mass Media Course

www.onthatnote.com - personal music Web site, integrated with blog

YouTube

Purchased by Google for $1.6 billion Oct. 2006

Easy to upload video

Accepts a variety of formats

Can be embedded into blogs

More Online Tools

Facebook or MySpace – set up groups; post content; stay in touch

del.icio.us - social bookmark manager

Twitter

Niche Social Networks

Ning - WebPubNET.ning.com

LinkedIn

Flickr/Picasa – photo sharing sites

Web Resizer – www.webresizer.com - online tool for optimizing size of photos for the Web

Google Pages – pages.google.com - free, easy way to create a Web site; some limitations

Wikipedia - discuss credibility, have students contribute, wisdom of crowd vs. gatekeepers

Free (or cheap) Software!

SoundSlides – make a photo slideshow

Must be hosted on a Web site

Difficult, but not impossible, to embed on a blog

Soundslides ($39.95) must include audio (you can tweak with a silent file); new Soundslides Plus ($69.95) lets you choose whether or not to have audio