Multimedia Production students examine the visual and hidden effects of sea level rise in South Florida and what it means for the future. Another locally produced film about a changing Miami — this time in the Wynwood Art District. The film reflects how, within language of development and opportunity, parts of South Florida have already[…]
A dozen MAST @ FIU and FIU School of Journalism and Mass Communication students served as the social media team during a lecture given by The Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron this week (Nov. 19). The Hearst Distinguished Lecture event was co-sponsored by PBS MediaShift. See the discussion at @OurSJMC and #sjmc_hearst. But what’s[…]
Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, through the eyesontherise.org project, is sending its faculty and students back to high school.
SJMC graduate Melissa Mendoza, on Nov. 7, spent a morning with journalism and yearbook students at MAST @ FIU, a public high school that meets at FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus. The collaborations continue activities between the two schools that have been backed by a grant from the Online News Association.
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.
