Submitted by biverson on Tue, 03\/03\/2009 – 1:49pmin<\/p>\n
Session Convenor: <\/strong> Barbara Iverson<\/p>\n Session Reporter:<\/strong> same<\/p>\n Discussion Participants:<\/strong> Karen Duffy, the Daytona Beach News-Journal; Barbara Kantrowits, Hechinger Institute on Education & the Media, Columbia University; Tom Stites, Banyon project; Anne Anderson Freelance writer; John Hamer, WA News Council and Leigh Montgomery from CSMonitor<\/p>\n JTM Breakout 3-2-09<\/p>\n Our topic was “Audiences: What\u00a0mental models<\/a> of our readers\/viewers\/v\/users\/PFKAA*” are appropriate for today?”<\/p>\n We began with a question: does it matter whether we think of our audience as “readers” or “viewers,” when they might be interacting, choosing, making things on site and stories we create.<\/p>\n The idea behind this session was to consider whether imagining an audience of readers was appropriate, given the various degrees of\u00a0interactivity<\/a> and content of interactive sites like games, databases, calculators, etc, should journalists create a set of typical user profiles as interactive designers do.<\/p>\n We looked at sites like\u00a0Great Lakes<\/a> Wiki, an NYTimes graphic feature which featured\u00a0Mad Magazine<\/a>‘s back page (remember the page you folded to reveal a visual joke) that you fold via your mouse. The point of this was to show how lots of news content requires more than just reading to be fully engaged with it, or to understand the\u00a0non-linear narrative<\/a> presented.<\/p>\n The discussion was informative, as we considered how you take the perspective of the user as you develop news stories that include slideshows, videos, calculators, games, and all kinds of non-linear narratives. We did not solve this problem, but had a good time talking about non-narrative media and the challenges of working with new forms of content.<\/p>\n *People formerly known as audience Submitted by biverson on Tue, 03\/03\/2009 – 1:49pmin Session Convenor: Barbara Iverson Session Reporter: same Discussion Participants: Karen Duffy, the Daytona Beach News-Journal; Barbara Kantrowits, Hechinger Institute on Education & the Media, Columbia University; Tom Stites, Banyon project; Anne Anderson … Continue reading
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