Hi: I'm Doreen Marchionni (Ph.D. '09, Missouri School of Journalism). I'll be your intergalactic pilot on this journey through my dissertation. Send whiskey, please.
Journalism/technology pitches for 2012 SXSW Interactive abound, and amen for that. Continuing with my experimental research on conversational news, I’ve proposed a panel offering hard, empirical data on the journalistic value, if any, of online story commenting. This stuff is too tricky to figure out without hard data.
I’m also particularly keen on several other panels, feeling a personal/intellectual connection to the subject or presenter. Take a look and cast your vote. Deadline is this Friday, Sept. 2:
How to Get Your Newsroom Talking About Audience (Joy Mayer, Missouri School of Journalism)
Joy teaches at Mizzou, where she just completed a fellowship on audience engagement/community construction at the affiliated Reynolds Journalism Institute. My only regret is that I didn’t get to know her while I was doing my doctorate at MU, given her conversation news research interests and mine align beautifully.
Independent Broadcasting: Taking Down Leviathans (Jeremy Fuksa, The Cocktail Napkin)
Speaking of aligned interests, I met Jeremy over our shared interests on conversation. And he literally does it in his wonderful interview show The Cocktail Napkin. I also like that he wants to take down the big guns in broadcasting — who doesn’t?
We Can Haz Nooz Movvees? Rebooting Video News (Andrew Pergam, Washington Post)
Not sure about the cute title of this panel, but I do love videos on news sites. My own research found audiences respond quite positively when they can see the actual journalist in the video, too. Makes the journalist seem less robotic and more human, and that’s key to perceived credibility.
Journalism is Dead. Long Live Journalism! (Robert Hernandez, USC Annenberg)
Robert and I worked together at The Seattle Times before I left to pursue my doctorate and he left to teach journalism as USC. He’s smart and funny and full of big ideas. And he truly gets the Web.
Second Screen Dashboard: Cover Live Events Better (Brian Hamman/Julie Bloom New York Times)
Brian was finishing up his master’s at Mizzou just as I was starting my doctorate. This wunderkind rode his computer science/journalism background straight to the NYTimes upon graduation. Easily one of the smartest people I’ve ever met and humble as snot. I’d listen to him read a phonebook. (My thoughts go out to him and my other East Coast friends as Hurricane Irene barrels down on them this weekend.)
