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Journalism Next:
Intro
We Are All Web Workers Now
Cindy Royal, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Texas State University
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
[email protected]
www.cindyroyal.com
www.onthatnote.com
tech.cindyroyal.net
twitter.com/cindyroyal
facebook.com/cindyroyal
Why study journalism?
• Changing field; technology has
caused massive disruption
• We are all consumers of journalism
• Central to democracy and First
Amendment
• Journalism Next lays out tools and
techniques for all fields
Newspapers are dying?
• The field of journalism has always
experienced change
• Shifting to more news organizations; smaller,
rather than a few, large ones
• New job titles, roles, responsibilities
• Reinvention is key
A good time to go into journalism
• Journalism has a bright future
• This future is in your hands
• Journalism will be better than it was
before
We Are All Web Workers Now
• The days of turning over digital duties
to a team of super geeks are gone
• Need an understanding of tech terms
and processes
• Requires a commitment to continuous
learning; we are in a state
of constant change
• Innovation is key!
Tech terms and concepts
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Bits and Bytes
Difference between Internet and Web
Web server
URL
Domain name
Browsers
RSS
FTP
Web Design Basics
HTML
<html>
<head><title>My 1st Web Site</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to my site</h1>
<p>This is my first Web site</p>
</body>
<html>
Web Design Basics
CSS – Cascading Stylesheets
• Adds design to HTML structure
• Separates design and structure
h1
{
color: #69887d;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 36px;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
}
XML – tag items so RSS feeds can process