International Symposium on Online Journalism
A program of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin
Innovation | April 23, 2010
Dean Graber, The University of Texas at Austin– Community radio: locally owned and operated radio stations, ran entirely by citizens. – Community radio lacks the filters and gateway keepers of larger radio stations. – The funding from community radio comes from listeners and small business “underwriters.” – Stations commit to involving groups missing from the … Read More
Research | February 22, 2010
The 2010 International Symposium on Online Journalism will be a record-breaking one for the eleventh year of the event. The research portion of the conference, which began in 2004, has seen a steady increase in participation, and 2010 featured the highest number of submissions ever. “We received over 40 submissions this year, and that just goes … Read More
Research | April 18, 2009
Edith Manosevitch, a researcher from the Kettering Foundation, discussed her research paper “Readers’ Comments to Online Editorials as a Space of Public Deliberation.” She touched on the research that has been done before on UGC and the potential of online media. But she noted that there a scarcity of work on analysis of the content: … Read More
Research | April 18, 2009
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dong Han presented his research paper “State Policy and News Websites in China” during the 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism. “They want to boost internet for the economy but at the same time control content,” he said. The core of the state regulation is licensing, or who … Read More
Citizen Journalism | April 18, 2009
The second panel of Saturday’s ISOJ covered “Citizen Journalism, User-Generated Content and Crowdsourcing: Who is Contributing to the Conversation and Why?” Academics from all over the United States and the world contributed information they had gathered on user interaction and how it affects journalism. User-generated content, or UGC, has been an interesting issue for online journalism.Cindy … Read More
Featured | April 7, 2008
Symposium-goers who stuck around for the final panel of the International Symposium on Online Journalism Saturday, “Issues in Online Journalism Research,” listened to a grab bag of research presentations on current topics related to online journalism from around the world. Ashraf Galal, a professor at Qatar University, led the discussion with his paper that explored … Read More
Featured | April 5, 2008
As the mainstream media accuses social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace of recklessly disclosing their users’ private information and creating a haven for cyber-bullying and risky behavior, researchers are speculating on how news sites can adopt social networking sites’ more positive characteristics. Sebastian Valenzuela and Jacqueline Vickery of the University of Texas at Austin … Read More
Featured | April 5, 2008
Scholars focused on fine-tuning the production of news Web sites during the second day of the ninth annual International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. The panel, Managing the Production of Online Journalism, was chaired by Mark Tremayne, assistant professor at UT’s School of Journalism. Arne H. Krumsvik of Oslo … Read More
Research | April 5, 2008
Rosental Alves wasn’t kidding when he said this was truly an international symposium: After spending almost two days on an airplane, Ashraf Galal arrived in Austin from Doha, Qatar, to share research on the U.S. image in Arab online journalism. “This is my first visit to Austin and I’m very impressed with the system of … Read More
Research | April 5, 2008
Online videos are rapidly changing the face of journalism, Neil Thurman and Ben Lupton of London’s City University said as they presented their paper at the ninth annual International Symposium on Online Journalism. Thurman and Lupton’s paper, Convergence Calls: Multimedia Storytelling at British News Websites, covered how embedded videos are affecting the online journalism world. … Read More