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Research | April 20, 2004
Cyberspace Nations
Nations are “imagined communities” reinforced by the media, and online journalism has used the Internet to help maintain these communities by recreating nations on the Web, said a panelist during the fifth annual International Symposium on Online Journalism on Saturday. “Diasporic groups (people living in a foreign country) use the Internet and TV to maintain contact … Read More
Research | April 20, 2004
Multimedia Journalism Increases Global Understanding
Multimedia journalism not only creates global connections between users but also greater understanding of current events and how they are globally perceived, said panelists discussing the wired world’s impact on journalism. Jeremy Edwards, a University of Texas at Austin graduate student, said during the International Symposium on Online Journalism that surfing the Internet is like … Read More
Citizen Journalism | April 20, 2004
Participatory Journalism: The Essence of Wikipedia
Wiki wiki — Hawaiian for “quick” — is at the root of Wikipedia, a encyclopedia website where any page can be edited by users with the simple click of an “edit this page” button. Andrew Lih, assistant professor at Hong Kong University, compared the different levels of participation between web sites, web logs and “wikis” … Read More
ISOJ 2004 Archive
Opening Session
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Lorraine Branham, director, School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
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Rosental Calmon Alves, professor & Knight Chair in Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
First panel: Online Journalism in Asia, Europe and Latin America – What is different and how does it compare with the U.S.?
Moderator and discussant: Lorraine Branham, director, School of Journalism, UT Austin
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Manuel Gago, professor, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Ari Heinonen, professor of New Media Journalism, University of Tampere, Finland
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Guillermo Franco, editor, El Tiempo.com, Colombia
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Makoto Ota, Staff Writer, The Yomiuri Shimbun (www.yomiuri.co.jp)Japan
Second panel: Online News financial independence – Has the business model come of age?
Moderator: Nancy Regent, vice-president/managingeditor, Hoovers.com
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Peter Zollman, founding principal, Classified Intelligence and Advanced Media Group
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John Granatino, vice president of news and operations, Belo Interactive
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William Grueskin, managing editor, The Wall Street Journal Online
Digital Newspapers: Where do we go from here?
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Keynote speaker: Roger Fidler, director, Institute for Cyberinformation, and professor, Journalism and Mass Communication, Kent State University
Third panel: Online news presentation- Have we already developed the language for this genre of Journalism?
Moderator and presenter: Leah Gentry, managing director, Finberg-Gentry/The Digital Futurist Consultancy, and Adjunct Professor, USC Annenberg School of Journalism
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Gary Kebbel, news director, America Online
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Michael Silberman, MSNBC.com Managing Editor East Coast
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Naka Nathaniel, NYTimes.com Multimedia Editor
Fourth panel: Online News status – Has it become indispensable?
Moderator and presenter: Charlotte-Anne Lucas, content director, MySanAntonio.com
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Doug Feaver, executive editor of WashingtonPost.com, and president of Online News Association
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Steve Klein, coordinator of the electronic journalism program, George Mason University
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Steve Outing, Senior Editor Poynter Institute and columnist, Editor & Publisher magazine
First panel: Research on Online Journalism
Moderator and presenter: Paula Poindexter, associate professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin
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Guillermo Franco, editor, ElTiempo.com, Bogotá, Colombia
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Steve Outing, Senior Editor Poynter Institute and columnist, Editor & Publisher magazine
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Rosental Alves and Amy Schmitz Weiss, School of Journalism, UT Austin
Research Panel: The State of Blog Journalism
Moderator and discussant: Mark Tremayne, assistant-professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin
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Blog, blog, blog: web log learning experience in journalism classes
Eric M. Wiltse, senior lecturer, Department of Journalism, University of Wyoming
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When the Audience is the Producer: the art of the collaborative weblog
Lou Rutigliano, graduate student, School of Journalism, UT Austin
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Blogging the Story
Sue Robinson, graduate student, Temple University
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Weblogs and the Search for User-Driven Ethical Models
J. Richard Stevens, graduate student, School of Journalism, UT Austin
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Citizens or Journalists? Legal and ethical rules governing journalists' personal Web logs
Kathleen K. Olson, assistant professor, Lehigh University
Keynote: New Frontiers for Online News: Wireless, Knowledge Management, the Information Society, and More
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Keynote speaker: Madanmohan Rao, consultant/author; editor, "The Asia-Pacific Internet Handbook" based in Bangalore, India
Research Panel: Reconsidering Journalism and its Effects on a Wired World
Moderator and discussant: Stephen D. Reese, professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin
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You've got News: a permission-marketing model using sponsored electronic newsletters
Anca C. Micu (graduate student) and Clyde H. Bentley (associate professor), University of Missouri-Columbia
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Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable Sources?
Andrew Lih, assistant professor, Hong Kong University
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Travelling without moving: Foreign news and boundary-crossing in Cyberspace
Jeremy Edwards, graduate student, UT Austin
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Redefining Multimedia Toward a More Packaged Journalism Online
Amy Zerba, graduate student, UT Austin
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Examining the Media Agenda: a comparison of the way traditional and online media presented the 2000 and 2004 presidential primaries
Donica Mensing, assistant professor, University of Nevada-Reno
Closing session
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Rosental Calmon Alves, professor, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, UT Austin