Below is text related to the required October Interim Report for the Online News Association, which we submitted on Oct. 28, 2014. Take a look!

 

Explain how you are testing your hypothesis for your live news experiment. Be specific.

Our hypothesis for this project is that “crowdsourcing and community engagement will increase viewership and participation in public discussion related to rising seas.” We are currently working on the second part of that hypothesis – increasing community and media participation in public discussion about sea level rise in South Florida. We are testing this component of the hypothesis through collaborative classroom engagement between School of Journalism and Mass Communication students – including students majoring in Broadcast and Journalism, Digital Media Studies, Advertising and Public Relations – and 190 high school students who attend MAST @ FIU, which is based at Florida International University.

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