Greensboro News
and Record changed their relationships with their public this past fall and
winter, but aggressively opening up their newsroom using new technologies like blogs,
podcasting,
and wiki. CNN now runs a regular Blog news discussion on Inside Politics. John Edwards released his first
podcast on March 22, 2005. AP reports "Reliance on the Internet for
political news during last year's presidential campaign grew sixfold from 1996,
while the influence of newspapers dropped sharply, according to a study [a
telephone-based survey from the Pew Research
Center for The People and the Press and the Pew
Internet and American Life Project that was released March 7, 2005]."
By looking at the changes in communication, in politics and in technology as well as social capitol theory, social network theory, and ideas of news flow (thanks Phil Meyer) as well as design and interoperability research, we will attempt to understand the growing world of many to many communications.
Instructor: Paul Jones 213 Manning Hall pjones@ibiblio.org 962-7600