Royal

Lessons from a Year in Silicon Valley:
Toward a More Innovative Research Program
Cindy Royal, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Texas State University
School of Journalism
and Mass Communication
croyal@txstate.edu
cindyroyal.com
@cindyroyal
slideshare.net/cindyroyal
• HTML/CSS
• JavaScript
• Charting Exercise
• Charting Tools
• Chart.js
• HighCharts
• D3
• Spreadsheets
• Web Scraping
• PHP/MySQL
• News Apps with Web Frameworks
• Website, tutorials, video, code repository
Grasp new meanings
Program
Grasp new meanings
Program
Coding
Grasp new meanings
Coding
Grasp new meanings
Data
Grasp new meanings
Data
Grasp new meanings
Data
Grasp new meanings
Journalist
Grasp new meanings
Journalist
Grasp new meanings
Journalist
Grasp new meanings
Journalist
Grasp new meanings
Technology is Communication and
Communication is Technology
• All media now digital media
• Social and mobile
• This is what we do as communication educators and scholars
It’s All About the Platform
Data, Data, Data
• Storytelling, data visualization
• Location-based features and services
• Web scraping and APIs
• Analytics
Innovation
• Digital changes scale, scope, economics,
participation
• Question the role of “mass” media
• Interactive presentation of
data/results
• Consider the relevance of
your research
• Seek inspiration outside
immediate purview
• Collaborate and share
• Apply Design Thinking/Make Things
Innovation
• Wearables
• Drones/sensors
• Second-screen engagement
• Coding for everyone
• Pay attention, encourage
colleagues to as well
• Focus on the future
• Think about new ways to
present research
Teaching considerations
• Research in the area of media pedagogy
• Curriculum innovation
• Experience learning
• The next Nate Silvers and Ezra Kleins are in our
classes, but also the next Zuckerberg, Mayer,
Karp…
• Give them the skills and perspectives they need to
lead, innovate and disrupt, not just work.
Teaching considerations
• Research in the area of media pedagogy
• Curriculum innovation
• Experience learning
• The next Nate Silvers and Ezra Kleins are in our
classes, but also the next Zuckerberg, Mayer,
Karp…
• Give them the skills and perspectives they need to
lead, innovate and disrupt, not just work.
Teaching considerations
• Research in the area of media pedagogy
• Curriculum innovation
• Experience learning
• The next Nate Silvers and Ezra Kleins are in our
classes, but also the next Zuckerberg, Mayer,
Karp…
• Give them the skills and perspectives they need to
lead, innovate and disrupt, not just work.
Teaching considerations
• Research in the area of media pedagogy
• Curriculum innovation
• Experience learning
• The next Nate Silvers and Ezra Kleins are in our
classes, but also the next Zuckerberg, Mayer,
Karp…
• Give them the skills and perspectives they need to
lead, innovate and disrupt, not just work.
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Royal

Editor's Notes

  1. Teach Web design and online journalism Dramatic, unpredictable changes over the past decade Blogs, podcasts, social media Online audio, video, slideshows, animated graphics Wikipedia, Craigslist, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Google Maps, Second Life
  2. Platform to teach journalists how to code Time spent on content Will move to platform development Took CS courses as well as visited with professors, organizations in area
  3. The Global Twitter heartbeat,positive and negative sentiments
  4. The Global Twitter heartbeat,positive and negative sentiments
  5. The Global Twitter heartbeat,positive and negative sentiments
  6. Zach Seward, Quartz SXSW We get news through platforms now. Google Now, Yahoo News Digest, Facebook Paper
  7. …if your ideas aren’t immediately embraced. Persistence;don’t get discouraged Data within article structure – longitudinal analysis Don’t just use the same old methods and theories to study blogs and Twitter
  8. …if your ideas aren’t immediately embraced. Persistence;don’t get discouraged Data within article structure – longitudinal analysis Don’t just use the same old methods and theories to study blogs and Twitter Nieman, MediaShift, make it more readable for public, more usable for industry Traditional journalis slow to accept new ideas, but don’t get discouraged. This is not easy, but we have to generate new ideas for the future of communication research.
  9. We need to study the changing role of media educator as mentor, coach and co-learner.
  10. We need to study the changing role of media educator as mentor, coach and co-learner.
  11. We need to study the changing role of media educator as mentor, coach and co-learner.
  12. We need to study the changing role of media educator as mentor, coach and co-learner.