2. Let’s get this straight: No one says that
amateurs will or should replace professional
journalists ’ (Jeff Jarvis cited in Beckett, 2008: VII)
‘TheConversation
is about turning the
university into a giant newsroom ’
Andrew Jaspan, Editor-In-Chief, TheConversation.com)
3. Research Questions
RQ1: Is there a mediatisation of academia?
RQ2: Do the traditional boundaries between journalism,
academic and pedagogical practices still exist in a datadriven age?
6. Networked
Journalism
In a world in which information and communication are organized
around the Internet, the notion of the isolated journalist working
alone, whether toiling at his desk in a newsroom or reporting from
a crime scene or a disaster, is obsolete. Every journalist becomes
a node in a network that functions to collect, process, and
distribute information (Beckett & Mansell, 2008; Jarvis, 2006)
7. Palimpsest: a new form
of journalism?
The wiki methodology of writing, with its inherent ability
to return, compare and restore to previous versions of any
page can therefore be seen as an infinite palimpsest—
digital vellum being scraped back, written over and
restored ad infinitum.( Wyatt, 2009)
http://wittylama.com/2009/07/05/wikipedia-the-endless-palimpsest/
8. Networked Journalism and Digital
Literacy
“ a serious transfer of emphasis from a defensive to positive
role…a move from teaching media literacy at an understanding
of the media to teaching it as a way of participating in the news
media” (Beckett, 2008:162)
teaching journalism is built less on : “traditional pedagogical
structure of theory, principle, and rules and more on a teaching
expertise built on an intuitive applied approach” (Beckett,
2008:162)
9. Altmetrics , Journalism and Digital
Literacy
It’s the way of the world generally, the media too, are
trying to track readership, who is reading, and how they
are reading it, how long are they reading it. Who are
they, and knowing so much as possible about the
reader”.
(Liz Minchin, Queensland Editor,
TheConversation.com, interview 2013
10. Altmetrics and Teaching Journalism
Altmetric is not that different to citations, we
shouldn’t be seeing them as two different things,
it’s all the same. We are just finding different
kind of data sources to calculate different kind
of things, but it’s all ultimately to measure your
performance
(Dr. Jackie Wolstenholme, James Cook
University, interview 2013)
11. Conclusion
Areas for future research are :
1. Journalism and the practice of journalism can no longer be
separated from academic and pedagogical practices.
2. Data and data-knowledge is a key currency ; future
journalists will be increasingly measured not for their
articles but the number of citations, hits, and ‘below the
line’ comments a piece receives.
3. Is Jaspan right, and the future of journalism will be found
in a giant university-based newsroom?
