curating news

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Slides on news curation from my St. Edward's University Interactive Media: Production and Design class. Discusses news curation, examines Andy Carvin's use of Twitter news curation and explains how to curate news using tools such as Twitter lists, Twitter widgets, Storify and Paper.li.

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NEWSCURATION

(from Latin cura, care), means manager, overseer, one who has the care and superintendence of something

cu•ra•tor

The editor who sits in a big building at the New York Times or your local newspaper that chooses what content you’ll see in your newspaper is a curator. So is the page designer who decides what story is at the top of the page

“- Robert Scoble

INFO MOLECULES

INFO MOLECULES

INFO MOLECULES

INFO MOLECULES

INFO MOLECULES

INFO MOLECULESA curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule.

BUNDLE1

REORDER2

DISTRIBUTE3

EDITORIALIZE4

ANYONE CAN COLLECT LINKS, AND ALGORITHMS CAN AGGREGATE. BUT ONLY TRAINED EDITORS HAVE THE SKILLS TO SELECT AND COLLECT THE BEST INFORMATION AND BUILD A LOYAL AUDIENCE.

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- MARK BRIGGS, JOURNALISM NEXT

UPDATE5 Updated

Version!

PARTICIPATE6

TRACK7

CURATIONEXAMPLES

TWITTER CURATION: NPR’S ANDY CARVIN

THE REVOLUTIONWILL BE TWEETED

TWITTER CURATION: NPR’S ANDY CARVIN

THE REVOLUTIONWILL BE TWEETED

NPR’S ANDY CARVIN

Storify: pulls in content from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr & YouTube and generates a story based on real-time

information from these networks

ADD A TWITTER LIST & SEARCH WIDGET TO YOUR BLOG

IN-CLASS WORKCURATING TWEETS

TWITTER LIST• GO TO YOUR PROFILE• CLICK ON LISTS• CLICK CREATE A LIST• NAME IT• NAVIGATE TO PROFILE OF

USER YOU WANT TO ADD• CLICK ON• CHECK BOX TO ADD

HOW TO CREATE A

Assistant Professor of CommunicationSt. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas

Email: corinnew@stedwards.eduBlog: http://socialmediaprclass.blogspot.com

Twitter: @corinnew

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