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Hello world!
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Introductions
Hi. Thanks for visiting! I’m Lynn, and I’m an Associate Professor in Media, Film, and Journalism Studies. I hope this blog will generate some good conversation. Or, if you’re reading this from most to...
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Aaron Swartz, a champion for Internet freedom
Time mag’s review of Aaron’s suicide. Lessig discusses the suicide on Huffington Post ] Slate’s story on the #pdftribute hashtag Prosecutor as bully Alex Stamos’ The Truth about Aaron’s ‘crime’ Aaron...
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They don’t do email
Cool story from a friend, Jason Shim, on how to reach young people in new media: http://www.nten.org/articles/2012/from-phones-to-facebook-how-to-engage-youth-on-the-front-lines-of-social-media
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Giving & Getting Ahead
NYTimes has a piece on empathy (sort of): http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/magazine/is-giving-the-secret-to-getting-ahead.html?smid=tw-share&_r=2&pagewanted=all&
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Discussing Young People & News
Here’s a radio interview I did with the Australian Broadcasting Commission on young people and the future of news.
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Students in Jeffco Learn about News, School Boards, & Voting
Photo from Nicholas Garcia, Chalkbeat Students in Jefferson County, Colorado are learning first-hand about dissent and political action. They’re also learning, inadvertently, about how the political...
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What do we know about young people and news?
UN/Rick Bajornas from the UN News Centre First, the bad news: 1. Between 2009 and 2010, the number of U.S. young people who watched television news dropped 12%. (Pew Research Ctr for People & the...
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New study finds low trust for news among young people
Young people use a variety of strategies for verifying news and put little trust in traditional legacy journalism outlets, according to a new study by Data & Society and the Knight Foundation. The...
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The Summer Youth Media Mentoring Project
Participants in the Summer Youth Media Mentoring Project, in a poorly lit phone photo. Sometimes when you’re an educator, you learn more than you teach. I had a summer like that. Thanks to the...
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Social media practices are changing how we’re informed: and democracy is at risk
Here’s a study on news consumption in social media spaces that is worth highlighting, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S. in March 2017 (too late for inclusion...
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Young People & The News, Fake and Otherwise
It’s hard to talk about journalism’s positive contributions today without recognizing the imbalances that are shaping our experiences of news. What do we do about the fact that there are large swaths...
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Journalism in the Eye of the Storm
A quick shout-out to those journalists who are placing themselves in harm’s way to cover the evacuation of the western coast of Florida, as Tampa’s Fox 13 journalists are doing, even as the Houston...
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People of Color More Likely Than Whites to Get News from Social Media
A new study from the Pew Research Center’s Journalism & Media group finds that 74% of people of color get news on social media sites, up from 64% in 2016. The study also finds that 67% of US adults...
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Book is out!
Cambridge University Press has released the book! Here is a news release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Lynn Schofield Clark Lynn.Clark@du.edu 303-871-3984 Young people trust friends on social media...
View ArticleFake News Isn’t New
By Regina Marchi We hear a lot about fake news today, but sadly the publication of false news stories for political or economic profit has been around for centuries, often resulting in devastating...
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Journalists Won’t Get the ‘Fake News’ Story Right: They Need Help, by...
Originally published on Platypus, the CASTAC blog, January 9, 2018 Platypus Editor’s note: This is a jointly-authored post by Lynn Schofield Clark, Professor and Chair of the Department of Media, Film...
View ArticleDoes more local news mean more cats, all the time?
“People want to see more local news,” Mark Zuckerberg explained today in his announcement of Facebook’s latest change to their algorithms. If a Facebook friend shares a local story on their timeline,...
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Introducing The Colorado Media Project
Colorado has found itself in the middle of an extraordinary journalism experiment. And now, members of the Colorado Media Project, an interdisciplinary team of students and faculty at the University...
View ArticleHow social media’s changed journalism: Book review
Sam Mejias Published August 13, 2018 in Journalism: https://doi-org.du.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/1464884918786638 Article information Young people and the future of news: Social media and the rise of...
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