Ryan Sholin

Tag: Media Theory

  • Deadline Day, v1.0

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    Today I turn in 12, count ’em, 12 copies of my 33-page thesis proposal. (The first draft was longer, believe it or not.) I finished it up last night shortly before 1am, but it’s safe to assume I’ll get it back in September with conditional approval (I hope) and notes on mechanical changes, plus a…

  • Enough handwringing, let’s get down to business

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    What’s the future of news? What does the audience want? What will the dead-trees edition be able to do about either? Lately, it seems like these questions are brought up by newspaper editors and journalism educators fraught with worry over what will become of their medium and of their readership. (And the children! Won’t somebody…

  • New Media class at SJSU

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    Journalism 163, taught by Steve Sloan and Cynthia McCune (at least one section – are there others?), opens for business at SJSU this week. It’s hard to give this thing a name, and I don’t want to contribute any more than I already have to the handwringing and head-scratching over what it should be, or…

  • Search query of the day

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    Wherein I start a new feature, in which, on a daily basis, I bring you the most inspiring search query which pops up in my referrer logs: “journalism school easier than law school” Hmm.

  • 10 things I heard at the AEJMC convention today

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    Let me tell you about my first time … at the AEJMC convention. Seriously, I had never been to a conference or convention that was about my own field before today. I mean, I’ve hung out with the physicists and the photographers and maybe even the real estate data information professionals back when I was…

  • Conference call

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    I’ll be at AEJMC today in San Francisco, probably in the ethics and citizen journalism panel in the early morning and then the newspapers and journalism education panel at midday. Where will I be in between? Hanging out in the hallway, talking to you. But watch out – I’m working on a story, so I…

  • Search drives serendipity, a continuing conversation

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    [Ed. note: This is the text of an e-mail I sent in reply to a comment a J-School professor from the University of Florida left on a post from a couple months ago regarding Serendipity on the Web. Part of his reply is posted at the end of this post.] Hi Prof. McKeen – Thanks…

  • Blog research at the AEJMC convention

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    For next week’s trick, I’ll be both a reporter and a student at the AEJMC convention. I’m planning on showing up Thursday morning to the citizen journalism session and later in the day for the “What’s Next for Newspapers and for Journalism Education? – A Continuing Discussion” session. Of course, I might want to duck…

  • Career paths of glory

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    (Just thinking out loud here…) There’s the multimedia producer version, where I keep learning Flash and web design until I can get myself a job putting together interactive graphics and training others to do it. Extra points here for my video editing skills and general understanding of visual style. Those four years of film school…

  • How I learned to stop worrying and love the blog

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    That might not be the first (or last) time I use that title, but it seems appropriate enough for the always entertaining discussion that ensues when journalists say things like “Any blog entry counts as journalism if the person posting it says it is, but journalism written by professionals cannot lose its special qualities and…