[p2p-research] Fwd: Open Journalism & the Open Web

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Arthit Suriyawongkul <arthit at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:31 PM
Subject: Open Journalism & the Open Web
To: barcamp-thailand <barcamp-thailand at googlegroups.com>, barcamp-chiang-mai
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(note: I think we can break out each topic into a smaller workshop
that can be deliver
in a weekend, as a barcamp long session or something)


Open Journalism & the Open Web
http://www.p2pu.org/node/5644/keypage


Hacks/Hackers, Mozilla, the Medill School of Journalism, The Media
Consortium
and others are teaming up to develop a solid six-week online
curriculum that will
benefit both "hacks" and hackers (that's journalists & programmers, in
plain English).
Each week the course will focus on a different topic, and each week
the participants
will be joined by a different subject-matter expert (or two) from the
field of news
innovation. The course readings, online participation, and a seminar
are expected
to require roughly 4-6 hours per week.

The topics that are currently in development are:

1. The fundamentals of journalism and coding: to help hacks and hackers
understand each others' principles, processes, lexicons, etc. From your
first "Hello, World" program to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests
-- participants will work together, to learn together.

2. Project management: How do you take an idea from the concept to launch?
What are the processes that teams use to meet deadlines & project goals?
Learn about project management from real-world examples of it in action.

3. Edit it. Fork it. The art of collaboration and journalism: What does
collaboration mean in the context of digital journalism? What are the tools
that can support collaboration online, i.e., programming collaboratively,
collaborative video editing, collaborative funding, etc.

4. Big Ugly Datasets For Thumb-Fingered Journalists:  Somewhere out there
is a file that ends in three letters: CSV. It will probably be so big,
in fact, that
it will be nearly impossible to navigate in Excel and not much easier in
Access. But it has all kinds of useful information that will help you cover
your
beat -- if only you could load the file, get the data you want from it, and
do
analysis. (Or, you know what a CSV is and you can rock a database -- but
where's the story in this data?). This course will try to answer these
questions
and more with hands-on assignments.

5. Maps. Maps. Everywhere: From Google Maps to Grassroots Mapping and
back again. What are the different ways that maps are being used to provide
context and information, etc.

6. Data journalism and government: Exploring open sources: how to find them,
how to work with them, etc. Timely topic given the recent release of data by
Wikileaks.

Our preliminary list of topic leaders and facilitators is posted online
here.
http://p2pu.org/node/5644/document/5664



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