Kenneth Crews on copyright and openness
Kenneth Crews, director of the Copyright Advisory Office at Columbia, gave a talk here at Harvard yesterday about issues of copyright, publishing contracts, and open access. He looks at these issues...
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What is journalism school for? A call for input
[I’ve asked Seth Lewis, a former Miami Herald editor and smart journalism professor-in-training at the University of Texas, to join our cast of occasional commentators here at the Lab. One of his...
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This Week in Review: Google’s new features, what to do with the iPad, and...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] A gaggle of Google news items: Unlike the past several weeks with...
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All the web’s a stage: Scholar Joshua Braun on what we show and what we...
Joshua Braun is a media scholar currently pursuing his Ph.D in Communications at Cornell. His work is centered at the intriguing intersection of television and the web: He’s currently studying the...
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When journalism meets academia: Reporter teams up with the Carr Center to...
[Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with its latest issue, which focuses on the current state of international reporting. There are lots of interesting articles — check out the whole issue —...
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“News media are targeted but audiences are not”: Herbert Gans on...
Herbert Gans, a professor emeritus in Sociology at Columbia University, wrote perhaps the seminal book about news organizations. In Deciding What’s News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News,...
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MiT7: How changing mediums change the message
This past weekend, MIT hosted its seventh international Media in Transition conference, a confab co-sponsored by the school’s Comparative Media Studies program and the MIT Communications Forum. The...
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The Conversation, the startup Australian news site, wants to bring academic...
What would happen if you had close to 1,000 academics available to contribute to the breaking news cycle? Would it change the course, and the discourse, of news? Andrew Jaspan thinks it will. Jaspan,...
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PressForward: A new project aims to rethink scholarly communication for the...
How journalists communicate has been radically changed by the Internet. Is it time for the academic world to catch up? Today, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason...
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I happen to have that research right here, Mr. Keller: The day sociologist...
Last month, The New York Times’ outgoing executive editor Bill Keller trolled all of Twitter (including plenty of journalists at his own paper) by posting a single tweet: “#TwitterMakesYouStupid....
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Marshall McLuhan, Superstar
Today would have been Marshall McLuhan’s 100th birthday. Continuing our informal McLuhan Week at the Lab, we present this essay by Maria Bustillos on McLuhan’s unique status as a media theorist who...
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Carrie Brown Smith: The social media bubble may burst, and more predictions...
Editor’s Note: We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Next up is journalism professor Carrie Brown-Smith, an up-and-coming young...
View ArticleOn breaking professors out of the academy’s constraints
Nick Kristof’s Sunday column was headlined “Professors, We Need You!” and argued that academics have become too inward-looking: Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world...
View ArticleStoryTracker is a new tool to track how news homepages change
Hopefully you know about PastPages, the tool built by L.A. Times data journalist Ben Welsh to record what some of the web’s most important news sites have on their homepage — hour by hour, every single...
View ArticleInvestigating the network: The top 10 articles from the year in digital news...
A nice piece of targeted empirical research with implications for news website UI and UX design, the study showed how site traffic could increase massively based on the aesthetic/functional qualities...
View ArticleCambridge Analytica, Trump, and the new old fear of manipulating the masses
Did “sinister” emotional manipulation by the data analytics company, Cambridge Analytica, decide the U.S. election? History suggests otherwise. After the election, one company claimed the credit for...
View ArticleWhat an academic hoax can teach us about journalism in the age of Trump
Call it, if you like, a replication experiment. Twenty-one years ago, the New York University physicist Alan Sokal attempted to prove that the influence of postmodern ways of thinking in the humanities...
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De Watergate a las fake news: los nuevo futuros del periodismo
La innovación está en todas partes. La innovación en el negocio de noticias. La innovación en las redes sociales. La innovación (¡y destrucción creativa!) en la comunicación política presidencial. La...
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When certainties fade: The changing state of academic research into the...
Innovation everywhere. Innovation in the news business. Innovation in social media. Innovation (and creative destruction!) in presidential political communication. Innovation in the topics and methods...
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Contextualizar y explicar: las claves de Nexo Jornal de Brasil
Brasil está atravesando una crisis política y los medios deben lidiar con un torrente de noticias de última hora, al tiempo que los escándalos de corrupción –que incluyen a los últimos presidentes de...
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Brazil’s Nexo Jornal sticks to its founding principles: Explanatory...
Brazil is facing a political crisis, and news organizations are facing down a torrent of breaking news as corruption scandals spanning the last several Brazilian presidents continue to roil the...
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What is it that journalism studies is studying these days? A lot about...
I am at the International Communication Association 2018 annual meeting in Prague. It is arguably the single most important international academic conference for communications research, media studies,...
View ArticleIs the business model for American national news “Trump plus rolling...
Anderson: I think you have a real gap between the elite news organizations and everyone else. I have a Ph.D. student who worked at News Corp for a while in Australia. And to hear her tell it, they were...
View ArticleHere’s a roundup of the latest and greatest research on local news’ impact...
You’re pretty sure that local news contributes positively to democracy. But do you have the research to back that up? In addition to this collection Democracy Fund assembled in June 2018, take a look...
View ArticleThese are the four waves of journalism studies over the past 20 years: the...
<academia-alert class="italian-policomm-journal"> It was about 20 years ago that the academic field of “journalism studies” came into rough early shape. Sure, there were people who studied...
View ArticleSo what did the 2020 election really mean, anyway? Here’s a first draft of...
Who says academics can’t work on tight deadlines? A few days after the 2016 U.S. presidential election — you may remember it, a real estate guy won — a group of political scientists, communications...
View ArticleJournalists are grappling with their relationships to big tech companies....
A small and seemingly niche Twitter conversation happened last weekend that shows how much further we have to go in creating good technology journalism and research. I won’t belabor the details or call...
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