http://www.syndicatemizzou.org Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:37:07 GMT en-us 40 Center for eResearch Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activity http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/images/logo.png 384 80 http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield1-SocialCapital.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield1-SocialCapital.m4v Is there a decline in social capital in the U.S.? Winfield discusses how the internet may increase political involvement in the democratic process. 3 Wed, 17 May 2006 18:52:38 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield2-Moveonorg.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield2-Moveonorg.m4v Winfield discusses the use of Moveon.org as a case study of an Internet site that increases social capital. 3 Wed, 17 May 2006 18:54:34 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield3-MediaInfluence.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield3-MediaInfluence.m4v What influences the mass media process? Winfield discusses how journalists use historical context when trying to explain something to the public. 3 Wed, 17 May 2006 18:57:31 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield4-MediaPlacement.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield4-MediaPlacement.m4v Winfield further discusses how journalists place a particular story in a certain context to deliver to the public. 3 Wed, 17 May 2006 19:02:50 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield5-chinesemedia.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield5-chinesemedia.m4v The philosophical underpinnings in the media of China and Japan. 3 Wed, 17 May 2006 19:04:12 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield6-bookproject.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield6-bookproject.m4v Winfield's current book project on public perception before the advent of public opinion polls and the national media. Reputation-building and the development of the hero designation in nineteenth-century U.S. as revealed by the media coverage of the Corps of Discovery expedition along with other public references, such as textbooks, maps, trail guides, histories, and children’s books. 3 Wed, 17 May 2006 19:08:59 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield7-todaysheroes.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield7-todaysheroes.m4v Winfield discusses differences in the processes of celebrity hero-ification today. 3 Wed, 17 May 2006 19:10:48 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield8-presidentswives.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/winfield/ipod/Winfield8-presidentswives.m4v WInfield discusses how presidential candidates' wives are framed by the media. What happens when a candidate’s wife doesn’t fit these molds? 3 Wed, 17 May 2006 19:12:55 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/larsen/ipod/Larsen06.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/larsen/ipod/Larsen06.m4v Larsen gathers his data through a variety of different methods ranging from ethnographic field research to content analysis and GIS. But the method he prefers is called “participant observation,” an approach in which “you go and live with the people for an extended period of time, so you can start to learn how they think and feel and act.” In fact, Larsen considers participant observation to be a base line for all the research he does because “you gain an insight by participating in the culture.” 3 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:06:10 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/west/ipod/West03.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/west/ipod/West03.m4v West is currently finishing a book, _From Celluloid to Tabloid_, in collaboration with Penelope Pelizzon (University of Connecticut), on Hollywood crime films and tabloid journalism from the 1920s through the 1940s. Unlike the tabloids of today, which West decries as “pretty trashy scandal magazines and newspapers…often designed to expose and ruin people’s careers,” the tabloids of the earlier era contain much more liveliness and inventiveness. “Although the cliché is that the tabloids have always been pitched to the uneducated, these early ones from the 1920s are surprisingly literary, replete with metaphorical word play, allusions, wit, and irony.” Tabloid writers often went on to become celebrated novelists and screenwriters for Hollywood. Beyond their literary value, these tabloids also teach us about urban culture and modernity, especially about New York in the 1920s and 1930s. West and Pelizzon refer to these tabloids as “adaptation-ready sites,” because they know how to spin information so quickly from one source. 3 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:28:07 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/west/ipod/West04.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/west/ipod/West04.m4v Asked to recommend films from this era “where you have journalists exhibiting all the characteristics of gangsters,” the first two films West mentions are _The Picture Snatcher_ (1933) and _Blessed Event_ (1932), which were produced just as the gangster film genre seemed to be disappearing from the Hollywood screen, owing to the Production Code’s restrictions. But Hollywood—in its need to continue profiting from the gangster’s popularity—found ways to “get around the censors,” explains West. “All of the gangster’s characteristics (his penchant for violence, his street smarts, his flashy style, his witty repartee) are put into the figure of the newspaper reporter,” who rarely works for a legitimate newspaper, West adds, but for a tabloid newspaper—“So, they get to have it both ways!” In the area of noir documentaries, where filmmakers experimented by combining film noir style with a documentary style, West recommends _Naked City_ (1948). 3 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:28:27 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean1-mckean1.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean1-mckean1.m4v McKean talks about his background in journalism and what inevitably brought him to become chair of the newly created convergence sequence at the Missouri School of Journalism. 3 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:57:03 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean2-mckean1.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean2-mckean1.m4v McKean describes the process of starting the convergence sequence, and what needs to be done to expand the program. 3 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:57:17 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean3-mckean1.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean3-mckean1.m4v McKean explains how the new journalism sequence was created in 2005. He says convergence teaches the “best ways to teach digital media skills to our students.” After looking at the strengths and failures of other journalism sequences (for example, magazine, photojournalism, news editorial, and broadcast), McKean and his colleagues were able to construct a curriculum that would introduce all sorts of media skills and apply those to reporting, editing, and producing. 3 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:57:29 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean4-mckean1.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean4-mckean1.m4v The convergence sequence is broken down into classes, each introducing essential skills for a convergence journalist. The classes range from a basic fundamentals course introducing convergence to reporting, editing, and a capstone. 3 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:57:42 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean5-mckean1.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean5-mckean1.m4v McKean explains the concept of the backpack journalist, an all-in-one journalist who can do anything without the help of others. “The backpack journalist idea is one notion of how convergence works;” however, he proclaims, “nobody can do everything equally well, and nobody can go out on any given story and do everything and come back with a really compelling story.” A major part of the convergence sequence is to prepare students to be able to work in many different mediums of storytelling, but also to understand the importance of teamwork. 3 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:57:56 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean6-mckean1.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean6-mckean1.m4v Unlike students in other sequences at the Missouri School of Journalism, convergence students work for media outlets across the country, including CurrentTV, MSNBC, and ESPN. 3 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:58:10 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean7-mckean1.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean7-mckean1.m4v In recent years, McKean has helped universities in other countries start their own journalism sequences. He says the experience has opened his eyes up to the barriers to journalism in other countries and what other institutions must do to clearly report news and information. 3 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:58:26 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean8-mckean1.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean8-mckean1.m4v McKean says because of the current technological age, many young journalists have grown up with multimedia platforms (such as facebook, cell phones, and blogs), and there is an unconstrained desire to implement many of those media with the news. “I think students that are coming to us now do not want to be shackled by one way of telling stories, ” McKean says. 3 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:58:42 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean9-mckean1.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean9-mckean1.m4v McKean says a journalist who can tell a story in multiple media bridges the gap between the audience and the reporter. “They have to interact much more closely with the audience and not just assume that they are passive receptacles for the content that we create,” McKean explains. “There are multiple correct ways to tell the story depending on the story itself and the content that is available to tell it.” 3 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:58:55 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean10-mckean1.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/mckean/ipod/mckean10-mckean1.m4v For many newsrooms, convergence is still a new idea being tinkered with on a daily basis. “They are increasingly realizing the need to have reporters with a convergence mindset. That is just a practical survival instinct,” McKean says. “But it is still difficult to try to do all of those things, and do them well, in an environment." 3 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:59:07 GMT