JC Barone, PhD
Communication & Media Arts
Western Connecticut State University
http://askaaronlee.com/is-social-media-a-fad
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News
Weather updates
GPS & maps
Millions of apps at my fingertips
Conference- alarm for naps
NAB app for latest convention updates
Foursquare-deals on restaurants, merchandise, receive rec’s from friends
Pandora, Spotify – music
Sirius
And 3 of 4 people bring their smartphones
to games…
Post PC era.
How Do People Really Use Their Phones? (An Infographic), by Arpit
Verma; http://www.blogtechnika.com/how-do-people-really-usetheir-phones-an-infographic
Available through traditional pay-television bundling &
broadband provider as a stand-alone service.
Interactive Pivot app on any device allows subscribers to
take the Pivot channel, both live streaming and on-demand,
everywhere.
Interact w/social media as you watch TV. Many
Online features include a "Take Action" button to access
information about social issues in each program, customized
to the viewer's locale and interests.
http://pivot.tv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVNJfUOBzJE
“The Internet of Everything” Cisco
Cisco “Tomorrow starts Today” spot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJSjbttGaVM
COM 298 Live News Broadcasting & Politics
Didactic approach:
Interdisciplinary
Combine: Emerging digital technology, social
media, and traditional media into an interactive
learning environment
To Produce and disseminate live, public, regional
election coverage
Limited resources
LOW budget
No TV Studio
No B’cast Transmitter
No TV/Satellite Truck
No PBS affiliation
Started with no cable affiliation or existing transmission
capabilities
Positive institutional support
Department
School
University
System
(1) Can a high quality, election news
program be produced despite limited
resources using smartphones, traditional
media, and social media into a seamless
production?
(2) Can the program be successfully
delivered in real time to a diverse audience
of university students, faculty, and the
larger western CT region?
(3) How well will students of various
interdisciplinary majors work together under
the stress of a high stakes project?
(4) How will course participants adapt to
unforeseen events?
(5) Will student civic understanding and
engagement be increased?
“In 2011, the digital revolution entered a
new era. The age of mobile, in which
people are connected to the web
wherever they are, arrived in earnest.”
More than 4 in 10 American adults now own a
smartphone.
1 in 5 owns a tablet.
New cars manufactured w/Internet built in.
With more mobility comes deeper
immersion into social networking.
…No debate on changes in professional practice in four
areas:
(a) production technologies
(b) distribution technologies
(c) economic restraints
(d) changing audience tastes and expectations
(Pew, 2012; Mitchell & Rosenstiel, 2012; Atkinson, 2013).
News organizations around the world have
witnessed shrinking budgets and fewer
field offices (Barone & Swan, 2007).
Reporters have had to do more of the
production work including shooting and
editing, and more of their work is in a
“live” environment (Alysen, 2009).
The public has become a player in agenda setting by
focusing attention on issues and supplying news
organizations with content through various means:
Facebook
Websites
Text messages
Blogs
Reddit
Twitter
RSS feed (Twitter->Video switcher)
Emails
Smartphone phone footage
31 students & 1 Alumnus:
23 males
9 females
Freshman: 1
Soph: 7
Jr:10
Sr: 13
Majors:
Media Prod
Poli Sci
COM
English
Prof. Wrt
Exploratory
IT
Theater
Smart Phones
Twitter
Facebook
Skype
Instagram
Reddit
RSS feed
3 video switchers
Web-based signals
Virtual Sets
Online File sharing
Text msg-ing
Live land-line call in
Cable access studio
Cable access TV: ~ 60-thousand TVHHs
Simulcast: WXCI-FM
Webstreamed over University homepage.
~250 students attended
Live election show on large monitor
Food!
Raffle (gift cards + Kindle)
Live reporters on site
People still need, and do, the things
they always have done
Reid, J. (2013) Smartphone today, smartwatch tomorrow. Western Star
March 25, 2013. http://www.thewesternstar.com/Opinion/Columns/201303-26/article-3207462/Smartphone-today,-smartwatch-tomorrow/1
Image: Dick Tracy on the Moon; verminblogs.com
For Biology class…
Ann used her Smartphone to record data
(images, text audio).
Check out apps that allow for recording
temperature, pH, heart rate, velocity, etc.
Mobile version of Excel.
She uploads video to Skype to share w/ her lab
partner, Mario.
Smartphone to graph (app for that)
For English class…
Brittany uses her Smartphone to look up
information in from the library database on
Romanticism, feminism, and revolutionary
movements of the late 18th century.
She uses the mobile version of MS Word on her
smartphone.
She invites peers via email and Facebook to share a
group calendar, exchange files and multi-media
content, organize tasks and chat.
For COM class…
Steve looks at various Tarantino clips on his smartphone,
makes note of several databases by texting himself, and
visits several websites for researching his paper on
Formalism and Directing.
He also creates a Facebook’s Event Page for the English
Society’s upcoming guest lecturer. She chooses all her
relevant friends for the event. They in turn, will invite their
friends.
He holds a preproduction meeting with team members
using Cengage’s MindTap & Blackboard (or FB) to schedule
shooting a scene.
For Music class…
Using his laptop, Seth uses Google Plus for
rehearsing with his quartet because they
couldn’t get to campus at the same time
one evening, but but still need to practice.
He also sometimes uses a metronome app
on his smartphone when practicing.
For Business class…
Tom uses Google Plus (live) for group
study sessions and critiquing each other’s
work.
He also uses the mobile version of MS
Word, and voice-to-text apps for
brainstorming.
For Writing class…
After reading his favorite Twitter feeds, and
Reddit, Tyrone uses his Smartphone to Twitter
thoughts about a news event.
He writes his daily blog reviewing regional music
concerts and performances.
He conducts an interview using Skype.
For Math class…
Julie uses her laptop or Smartphone to get help
with homework from www.math.com.
She uses its quadratic equation calculator because
she left her physical calculator home.
She also uses G+ for study sessions and filesharing.
Electronic devices:
Smartphones, mobile devices, pads
Free Web tools/sites:
RSS feeds of various information (news, etc)
Skype
Facebook Circles
Google Plus
Twitter
Pinterest
There are TONS more,
Instagram
this is an incomplete list!!
LinkedIn
YouTube, Vimeo
Podcasts
University tools:
Blackboard; clickers
Corporate collaborative tools:
Cengage Mind Tap
Websites:
Reddit-user generated, crowdsourced news stories
“5
Disruptive Education Trends That Address
American Inequality,” Ben Hecht
Hecht, B. (2013). 5 disruptive education trends that address American inequality.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681576/5-disruptive-education-trends-that-addressamerican-inequality?goback=.gde_71923_member_229326497
Hecht, B. (2013). 5 disruptive education trends that address American inequality.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681576/5-disruptive-education-trends-that-address-americaninequality?goback=.gde_71923_member_229326497
Skillshare
EduFire
Noam Chomsky
Reprise
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