Demystifying Media at the University of Oregon

About Our Guest:Alice Bonasio is Editor-in-Chief for Tech Trends, a website “showcasing the latest disruptive technology that is changing the world we live, work, and play in.”Alongside her work at Tech Trends, Alice is also a VR (Virtual Reality) and Immersive Media consultant, and a contributor to publications such as Wired, Forbes, Fast Company, Quartz, VR Scout, Playboy, Scientific American, Ars Technica, The Next Web, and others.Find Alice Online:TwitterLinkedInShow notes:0:34: What is Tech Trends for those who don't know?2:20: What topics and themes resonate with your audience?3:48: How do you define immersive media?6:30: What immersive content have you seen recently that stands out?14:30: What are the implications of immersive technology for content creators that we should be aware of?18:10: Explain what you mean when you use Legos an analogy for refreshing one's skills?23:30: You've said we all need to be a bit more like Madonna. What do you mean by that?26:45: You've recently relocated to the United States. What's next for you?Read the transcript of this episodeWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserYou can find more Demystifying Media content, like video interviews and lecture recordings, on YouTube.

About Our Guest:Alongside her work at Tech Trends, Alice is also a VR (Virtual Reality) and Immersive Media consultant, and a contributor to publications such as Wired, Forbes, Fast Company, Quartz, VR Scout, Playboy, Scientific American, Ars Technica, The Next Web, and others.In this talk, Alice will talk about her shifting career path, including reporting on business (as a journalist covering the tech sector) and making a business out of your reporting (building Tech Trends as a platform and monetizable brand), as well as the future of immersive storytelling and what that means for the next generation of communication professionals.Find Alice Online:TwitterLinkedInWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserYou can find more Demystifying Media content, like video interviews and lecture recordings, on YouTube.

About Our Guest:Matika's most recent endeavor, Project 562 ,has brought Matika to over 300 tribal nations dispersed throughout 40 U.S. states where she has taken thousands of portraits, and collected hundreds of contemporary narratives from the breadth of Indian Country all in the pursuit of one goal: To Change The Way We See Native America.In this podcast Matika, is also joined by the award-winning photographer and University of Oregon Professor Torsten Kjellestrand, and School of Journalism and Communication student Mitchell Lira. Together with host Damian Radcliffe they discuss issues of representation, how J-Schools and educational institutions can support native students, and how to build an indigenous Wakanda.Find Matika Online:Twitterproject 562Show notes:(00:04): Guest Introduction (02:06): How has Native American life historically been portrayed, and why does that need to change?(04:45): The struggles Mitchell had gone through as a young Native American man(07:31): How Native American are represented in the media landscape(09:40): How to create a new lens to change the existing portrayal of native Americans(14:48): Advice to young Native American students on how to amplify their voices(19:00): How universities can help Native American students feel more welcomed(26:59): Advice on how the public can best portray Native Americans (27:43): Wrap-upRead the transcript of this episodeWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserYou can find more Demystifying Media content, like video interviews and lecture recordings, on YouTube.

About Our Guest:As a 2016-2017 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, Heather researched how to make collaboration easier and more effective for newsrooms. This year, she published the Collaborative Journalism Workbook and works with the Center for Cooperative Media to chronicle collaborative projects from around the world in the Collaborative Journalism Database. Her work includes managing the Collaborative Journalism Slack and doing trainings and workshops on effective, meaningful editorial collaboration. This year, she published the Collaborative Journalism Workbook and works with the Center for Cooperative Media to chronicle collaborative projects from around the world in the Collaborative Journalism Database. Her work includes managing the Collaborative Journalism Slack and doing trainings and workshops on effective, meaningful editorial collaboration.Find Heather Online:LinkedInWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserYou can find more Demystifying Media content, like video interviews and lecture recordings, on YouTube.

About Our Guest:As a 2016-2017 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, Heather researched how to make collaboration easier and more effective for newsrooms. This year, she published the Collaborative Journalism Workbook and works with the Center for Cooperative Media to chronicle collaborative projects from around the world in the Collaborative Journalism Database. Her work includes managing the Collaborative Journalism Slack and doing trainings and workshops on effective, meaningful editorial collaboration.Find Heather Online:LinkedInShow notes:(00:04): Guest Introduction(01:03): The importance of collaboration in newsrooms(02:38): Newsroom collaboration as a necessity in 2018 across the US(03:46): Potential reasons for collaborating with new organizations(08:25): Checklist of things organizations should be thinking about when they're looking at collaboration(11:18): Navigating challenges while collbaoring with various working cultures and practices (13:24): The significance of creating a safe work space(14:46): Factors to overcome in order to increase collaborations among newsrooms(17:20): Collaboration entails being inclusive of both journalists and people from other industries(20:21): Representing people from different backgrounds in the newsrooms(22:49): Advice and solutions the journalism industry needs to embrace(25:08): Wrap-upRead the transcript for this episodeWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserYou can find more Demystifying Media content, like video interviews and lecture recordings, on YouTube.

Join us for this special 40-minute lecture with author and Professor of Writing and Journalism at the University of Tampa, John Capouya.This is an audio recording of a lecture. For copyright reasons, the lecture presentation images could not be included in the lecture recording.In this lecture, journalist and professor John Capouya, author of the newly published book, Florida Soul, discusses the evolution of rhythm and blues music in black communities and on the ”chitlin’ circuit” in the era of segregation, the vital role soul played in the civil rights movement, and how artists like Sam & Dave, James Brown, Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke crossed over the racial divide into the mainstream, changing American culture.Want to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaser

Join us for a special 40-minute lecture with Stanford University Journalism Program Director, James T. Hamilton.This is an audio recording of a lecture. The lecturer used visual tools that could not be captured in the audio recording.Changes in media markets have put local investigative reporting particularly at risk. But new combinations of data and algorithms may make it easier for journalists to discover and tell the stories that hold institutions accountable. Based on his book Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism, in this lecture Professor Hamilton explores how the future of accountability reporting will involve stories by, through, and about algorithms.Dr. James Hamilton is the Hearst Professor of Communication, Director of the Journalism Program, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Communication at Stanford University. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, Hamilton taught at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, where he directed the De Witt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy.He earned a BA in Economics and Government (summa cum laude) and PhD in Economics from Harvard University.Want to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaser

About Our Guest:Alan D. Abbey founded Ynetnews and was executive vice president at the Jerusalem Post. He is also an adjunct professor of Journalism at National University of San Diego and ethics lecturer for the Getty School of Citizen Journalism in the Middle East and North Africa. He was a leader of the Online News Association’s digital ethics team, which created the “Build Your Own” Ethics Code course and website, and he chaired the Hartman Institute-American Jewish Press Association Ethics Project. He is the author of Journey of Hope: The Story of Ilan Ramon, Israel’s First Astronaut. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Abbey lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children.Israeli journalists are among the most aggressive, intense, politicized, opinionated, and competitive media professionals anywhere. They differ from American media in significant ways.Find Alan D. Abbey OnlineTwitterLinkedInHear more from Alan D. AbbeyVideo InterviewLecture videoRead the transcript of this episodeShow notes:(00:00): Guest Introduction(01:30): Understanding Israeli media as opposed to American media(02:19): What American journalists could learn from Israeli journalists(05:02): Survey on ethical codes and journalism ethics amongst Jews in US and Canada(06:24): Identifying Jewish codes that inform jewish journalists(08:21): Navigating Alan's transition from the US to Israel(11:11): Alana's reasons for moving to Israel(13:06): How the media landscape looks like in the Middle East(15:47): Featuring Alan's role working in the Hartman Institue (17:51): Alan's transition from a journalist in the US to a PR representative in the Hartman Institute (22:24): Wrap-upWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserYou can find more Demystifying Media content, like video interviews and lecture recordings, on YouTube.

About Our Guest:Joy Mayer is an adjunct faculty member at The Poynter Institute and the University of Florida and is a community engagement strategist based Sarasota, Florida. She spent 12 years teaching at the Missouri School of Journalism, where she created an engagement curriculum and a community outreach team in the newsroom of the Columbia Missourian and also taught web design and print design.Find Joy Mayer OnlineTwitterLinkedInHear more from Joy MayerInterview VideoLecture VideoShow notes:Read the transcript for this episodeWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserYou can find more Demystifying Media content, like video interviews and lecture recordings, on YouTube.

Will Grant is one of the UK’s leading broadcast journalists on Latin American affairs. He has been the BBC’s Correspondent in Cuba since late 2014, shortly before the announcement of the re-establishment of diplomatic ties with the United States. In that time he has covered such historic moments as President Obama’s ground-breaking visit to Cuba and the death of the founder of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.Before taking up his role in Cuba, he was the BBC Correspondent in Venezuela under Hugo Chavez and Mexico / Central America during some of the most violent years of the drug war. Will was previously the Americas Editor at the BBC World Service Radio, based in London and Miami and has covered the region extensively for over twenty years.In this podcast, Grant will discuss being a journalist in Venezuela, Mexico and Cuba, three of the countries that have forged the biggest headlines in Latin America over the past decade.Each country is different. Yet for reporters, there are certain similarities that can help us to produce informed, objective and balanced journalism in these fascinating nations. Whether dealing with political pressure from hostile authorities or having an awareness of personal security issues, understanding how to operate in the region can only strengthen the rich tradition of storytelling from Latin America as a whole.Will Grant graduated with First Class Honours from Edinburgh University and gained his Masters degree from the University of London’s Institute of Latin American Studies.Watch our interview with Will in the studio: https://youtu.be/F8GFNxzlv4oWatch Will's talk: https://youtu.be/VDrAocdvARQWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserFind more Demystifying Media talks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiELNjgZJJI&list=PLoqXTlv_f5zEJifP55GP1ghtQjY3tzoI0Watch our Q&As with media experts on fake news, data journalism, privacy in the age of Google, indigenous media, technology trends, Facebook algorithms, and so much more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTiuV9h-MKA&list=PLoqXTlv_f5zGu5TJeuL1SMBVCXlM4ViyLRead the transcript for this episode: https://www.scribd.com/document/463717769/Demystifying-Media-12-Reporting-in-Cuba-Mexico-and-Venezuela-with-Will-Grant

David Bornstein is CEO and co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, which works to establish the practice of solutions journalism — rigorous reporting that examines responses to social problems — as an integral part of mainstream news.He has been a newspaper and magazine reporter for 25 years, having started his career working on the metro desk of New York Newsday. Since 2010, he has co-authored, withTina Rosenberg, the “Fixes” column in The New York Times.He is the author of three books: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (2003, Oxford University Press), The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank (1996, Simon & Schuster), and Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know (2010, Oxford University Press).Watch our interview with David in the studio: https://youtu.be/O8t5sKJSj_gWatch David's talk: https://youtu.be/gpUeLqZCsnkWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserFind more Demystifying Media talks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiELNjgZJJI&list=PLoqXTlv_f5zEJifP55GP1ghtQjY3tzoI0Watch our Q&As with media experts on fake news, data journalism, privacy in the age of Google, indigenous media, technology trends, Facebook algorithms, and so much more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTiuV9h-MKA&list=PLoqXTlv_f5zGu5TJeuL1SMBVCXlM4ViyL

2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer E. Jason Wambsgans is a staff photographer at the Chicago Tribune, where he has spent the last 15 years covering stories that have taken him from the vanishing rainforests of Madagascar to the war in Afghanistan, and the last 5 years intensively documenting the problem of Chicago’s gun violence. Wambsgans studied fine art and cinema at Central Michigan University. Throughout a career of wide-ranging assignments, his editors have counted on his ability to inventively meet challenges, whether aesthetic, technical or conceptual, while gracefully conveying the human experience.Wambsgans won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Photography for what the judges observed was “a superb portrayal of a 10-year-old boy and his mother striving to put the boy’s life back together after he survived a shooting in Chicago.”Watch our interview with Jason in the studio: https://youtu.be/zkRvCRzDG2kWatch Jason's talk: https://youtu.be/LqZ7cG1o0okWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserFind more Demystifying Media talks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiELNjgZJJI&list=PLoqXTlv_f5zEJifP55GP1ghtQjY3tzoI0Watch our Q&As with media experts on fake news, data journalism, privacy in the age of Google, indigenous media, technology trends, Facebook algorithms, and so much more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTiuV9h-MKA&list=PLoqXTlv_f5zGu5TJeuL1SMBVCXlM4ViyLRead the transcript for this episode: https://www.scribd.com/document/463622718/HDM-Podcast-Podcast-10-EJasonWambsgans

Professor Capouya specializes in teaching journalism and other forms of nonfiction writing. He is a former reporter and editor at The New York Times, Newsweek, New York Newsday and Smart Money magazines.His latest book, Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band, chronicles the soul music scene over the past 50 years. In this podcast, Capouya discuss the evolution of his book, and the little known role Florida played in the rise of soul music.Watch our interview with John in the studio: https://youtu.be/iTiuV9h-MKAWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserFind more Demystifying Media talks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiELNjgZJJI&list=PLoqXTlv_f5zEJifP55GP1ghtQjY3tzoI0Watch our Q&As with media experts on fake news, data journalism, privacy in the age of Google, indigenous media, technology trends, Facebook algorithms, and so much more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTiuV9h-MKA&list=PLoqXTlv_f5zGu5TJeuL1SMBVCXlM4ViyLRead the transcript for this episode: https://www.scribd.com/document/463631629/Demystifying-Media-9-Segregation-Integration-and-the-Sounds-of-Soul-with-John-Capouya

About Our Guest:Dr. James Hamilton is the Hearst Professor of Communication, Director, of the Journalism Program, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Communication at Stanford University. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, Hamilton taught at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, where he directed the De Witt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy.Changes in media markets have put local investigative reporting particularly at risk. But new combinations of data and algorithms may make it easier for journalists to discover and tell the stories that hold institutions accountable. Based on his book Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism, James T. Hamilton explores how the future of accountability reporting will involve stories by, through, and about algorithms.Find Dr. James Hamilton OnlineWebsiteHear more from Dr. James HamiltonVideo InterviewRead the transcript for this episodeShow notes:(00:00): Guest Introduction(02:00): The route James embarked on leading him to computational journalism(02:57): Takeaways from his book in terms of investigative reporting(04:24): What do we need to know about media markets relative to other types of markets?(09:23): What are news organizations facing when they attempt to do an investigation in terms of the trade offs involved?(13:14): The influence and social impact of news organizations when they invest their time and money(15:43): Tackling how computation and algorithms relate to the future of investigative reporting(18:27): Navigating how the public reacted to the ideas in his book(20:05): Identifying how to stimulate a better environment for investigative journalism(21:11): Wrap-upWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserYou can find more Demystifying Media content, like video interviews and lecture recordings, on YouTube.

Troy Campbell is a design psychologist, which means he uses psychology to design better experiences, communications, and education. He is an expert in consumer behavior, marketing social psychology, political psychology, and scientific communication. Campbell’s research uses psychology to understand what makes people happy, how social movements can be effective, the power of advertising, what makes a good experience (such as a music festival), and consumerism.Find Troy online:Follow Troy on Twitter: (@)TroyHCampbellVisit his website: http://troyhcampbell.weebly.com/Read some of his earlier thinking on Why People "Fly from Facts" in Scientific American (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-people-fly-from-facts/)Watch our interview with Troy in the studio: https://youtu.be/L0j02LGsS4kWatch Troy's talk: https://youtu.be/EiELNjgZJJIWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserFind more Demystifying Media talks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiELNjgZJJI&list=PLoqXTlv_f5zEJifP55GP1ghtQjY3tzoI0Watch our Q&As with media experts on fake news, data journalism, privacy in the age of Google, indigenous media, technology trends, Facebook algorithms, and so much more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTiuV9h-MKA&list=PLoqXTlv_f5zGu5TJeuL1SMBVCXlM4ViyLRead the transcript of this episode: https://www.scribd.com/document/463630695/Demystifying-Media-7-Why-People-Fly-from-Facts-with-Troy-Campbell

Sara Wachter-Boettcher is a content strategy and user experience expert who has worked on the web since she graduated from the SOJC (Magazine, 2005). As the principal of Rare Union, she’s led projects and facilitated workshops for Fortune 100 corporations, education and research institutions, and startups. Her new book, Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech, looks at the way technologists often embed a narrow worldview into the products they build, providing a revealing look at how tech industry bias and blind spots get baked into digital products—and harm us all.Watch our interview with Sara in the studio: https://youtu.be/lalv8Kz6R08Watch Sara's talk: https://youtu.be/n2eSMimK83IWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserFind more Demystifying Media talks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiELNjgZJJI&list=PLoqXTlv_f5zEJifP55GP1ghtQjY3tzoI0Watch our Q&As with media experts on fake news, data journalism, privacy in the age of Google, indigenous media, technology trends, Facebook algorithms, and so much more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTiuV9h-MKA&list=PLoqXTlv_f5zGu5TJeuL1SMBVCXlM4ViyLRead the transcript for this podcast: https://www.scribd.com/document/463718611/Demystifying-Media-6-Sexist-Apps-Biased-Algorithms-and-Toxic-Tech-with-Sara-Wachter-Boettcher

About Our Guest:C. W. Anderson is the author of Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age and Journalism: What Everyone Needs to Know (co-authored with former Washington Post Executive Editor Len Downie and sociologist Michael Schudson), which has been described as “an accessible, sweeping survey of the past, present, and future of journalism.”Find C. W. Anderson Online:LinkedInHear more from our guest:Video interviewLecture InterviewShow Notes:(00:04): Guest Introduction(01:40): Origin stories related to data journalism and sociology(03:48): How data can help us understand other forms of journalistic endeavor(06:26): Data journalism in the past vs. present(08:10): Tackling data-driven storytelling and its relation to science(10:30): Identifying ways journalists can rebuild trust with the public(12:35): The economic crisis affecting the journalism industry during and after the 2016 election (13:54): Navigating how to use journalism to improve democratic values(20:33): Next steps for Chris Anderson (21:53): Wrap-upRead the transcript for this episodeWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserYou can find more Demystifying Media content, like video interviews and lecture recordings, on YouTube.

About Our Guest:Stacy-Marie Ishmael will be spending the 2016–17 academic year researching the challenges newsrooms face in adapting to the rise of the mobile-only audience. Prior to this fellowship, she was the managing editor of mobile news for BuzzFeed News, running the BuzzFeed News app and morning newsletter, and overseeing a team of news editors in New York, Los Angeles, and London.Find Stacy-Marie Online:LinkedInTwitterHear more from Stacy-Marie:Lecture InterviewVideo InterviewShow notes:(00:04): Guest Introduction(00:51): The flattening of news and its consequences for trust(02:47): How users should respond to challenges related to fake stories(05:50): How her fellowship at Stanford influenced her (08:27): Identifying what the term flattening refers to in her title(09:16): Consumer expectation and newsroom reality(10:21): Are newsrooms equipped or do their skills need to be reevaluated?(12:15): The meaning of bad mobile experience (15:56): Examples of news organizations providing bad, but also good mobile experience for users(23:44): Skills students should be developing as they move into the workforce(26:09): Wrap-upRead the transcript for this episodeWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserYou can find more Demystifying Media content, like video interviews and lecture recordings, on YouTube.

About Our Guest:Ali has published in numerous journals, including Communication Theory, Media Culture & Society, and International Journal of Communication. His forthcoming book, Media Localism: The Policies of Place (University of Illinois Press, 2017), addresses the difficulties of defining and regulating local media in the 21st century in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada and the implications these difficulties have for the long-term viability of local news.Find Christopher Ali online:LinkedInTwitterShow Notes:(00:05): Guest Introduction(00:55): A new perspective into the future of small market newspapers(02:06): pros and cons of small market newspapers (04:12): Challenges small market newspaper will be facing in the future(05:43): The economics of small market newspapers(09:09): Various narratives in the newspaper industry(12:33): Next steps for Christopher Ali(13:53): Wrap-upRead the transcript for this episodeWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserYou can find more Demystifying Media content, like video interviews and lecture recordings, on YouTube.

About Our Guest:Sarah Vieweg researches how citizens of Arab Gulf countries perceive, use, and re-interpret social media, with an eye toward defining design principles that consider non-Western cultural values. She also looks at how advertisers throughout the world turn to social media for advertising and marketing, and how diverse marketplace activities translate to digital environments.Find Sarah Vieweg online:LinkedInShow Notes:00:05: Guest Introduction00:48: Identifying how values and ideologies in the Arab Gulf translate into social media use01:50: Exemplifying how modesty manifests in social media usage amongst women in the Gulf03:46: Sara's journey in Qatar researching social media use 06:05: Challenges Sarah faced as a foreigner conducing research in a conservative region07:06: Findings of her research in terms of drivers for social media use in the Gulf08:47: Navigating the dynamic of modernization in Qatar 10:58: Examples of evolving social media platforms usage in Qatar13:34: Lessons on social media usage in the Gulf that could be adopted in the west15:42: How social media can be empowering to women in the Gulf17:32: Sarah's next steps in terms of her social media research18:11 Wrap upRead the transcript for this episodeWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserYou can find more Demystifying Media content, like video interviews and lecture recordings, on YouTube.

About Our Guest:Nikki Usher is an assistant professor at George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs. She is the author of Making News at The New York Times (University of Michigan Press, 2014) and Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and News (University of Illinois Press, November 2016), which looks at the rise of programming, data, and hacking in journalism and the ensuing changes to the profession. She received her PhD and Master’s degrees from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and her A.B. from Harvard University.Dr. Usher joined us in the Demystifying Media podcast studio to look ahead to what’s next for interactive journalism across the world. Joining Professor Usher in this conversation were Damian Radcliffe, the Carolyn S. Chambers Professor of Journalism, Dr. Seth Lewis, holder of the Shirley Papé Chair in Electronic Media and Kaitlin Bane a doctoral student at the University of Oregon.Find Nikke Usher online:Personal WebsiteLinkedInShow Notes:00:05: Guest Introduction01:27: Demonstrating how hacker journalism has evolved post-Trump era02:26: Defining the term hacker journalism 03:43: Tackling key themes and ideas in Nikki's book 04:38: Navigating fundamental assumptions of how information must be consumed07:13: The intersection of programming, coding, and journalism 9:17: Determining how different audiences interpret the themes of Nikki's book11:57: Identifying the merits of various media organizations16:09: Dealing with technological adaptations and digital distribution20:39: Wrap-upRead the transcript for this episodeWant to listen to this episode a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandoraiHeartRadioPodBeanTuneInPodchaserYou can find more Demystifying Media content, like video interviews and lecture recordings, on YouTube.