When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.

This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation launched the project at MozFest 2011. Through a collection of tips and techniques from leading journalists, professors, software developers, and data analysts, you’ll learn how data can be either the source of data journalism or a tool with which the story is told—or both.

Table of Contents
Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: In The Newsroom
Chapter 3: Case Studies
Chapter 4: Getting Data
Chapter 5: Understanding Data
Chapter 6: Delivering Data

This course examines systematically, and comparatively, great and middle power military interventions, and candidate military interventions, into civil wars from the 1990s to the present. These civil wars did not easily fit into the traditional category of vital interest. These interventions may therefore tell us something about broad trends in international politics including the nature of unipolarity, the erosion of sovereignty, the security implications of globalization, and the nature of modern western military power.

Welcome to Narrative Journalism! While this genre/craft/form of art goes by many names (i.e. Creative Nonfiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Nonfiction, New Journalism, etc.), narrative journalism is most simply defined as the following: storytelling (narrative) through the use of primary and secondary research (journalism).

This textbook was created for beginning narrative journalists exploring the craft. It is inspired by the Narrative Journalism course (JASS/COMP/ENGL 310) at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and it is intended to be used as a guide and handbook. It is structured around the five elements of fiction, and provides both instruction and student examples of various narrative journalism projects.

Table of Contents
1. Ethics
2. Research
3. The Five Elements of Fiction
4. Theme
5. Character
6. Setting
7. Plot
8. Point of View
9. Digital Storytelling

This is the first edition of a modular open textbook designed for entrepreneurial journalism, media innovation, and related courses. This book has been undergoing student and faculty testing and open review in fall 2017. Feedback has been implemented in Version 1.0 and will continue to be implemented in Version 2.0 (ETA spring 2018). An accompanying handbook will include additional activities, ancillary materials and faculty resources on media innovation for instructors.

Media, Society, Culture, and You is an approachable introductory Mass Communication text that covers major mass communication terms and concepts including "digital culture." It discusses various media platforms and how they are evolving as Information and Communication Technologies change.

This book has been peer-reviewed by 6 subject experts and is now available for adoption or adaptation. If you plan to adopt or adapt this open textbook, please let us know by filling out our adoption form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIj_Te3hiuJL7cKaofhhUHuDz3_hlVXg6Wg1IPcDZoH2pRrg/viewform?usp=sf_link).

You can view the book's Review Statement (https://press.rebus.community/mscy/back-matter/review-statement/) for more information about reviewers and the review process. An Accessibility Assessment (https://press.rebus.community/mscy/back-matter/accessibility-assessment/) for this is book has also been prepared to see how this book meets accessibility standards.

Media Studies 101 is the open educational resource for media studies studies in New Zealand, Australia, and Pacifica. We have constructed this text so it can be read in a number of ways. You may wish to follow the structured order of 'chapters' like you would in a traditional printed textbook. Each section builds on and refers back to previous sections to build up your knowledge and skills. Alternatively, you may want to go straight to the section you are interested in -- links will help guide you back to definitions and key ideas if you need to refresh your knowledge or understand a new concept.

Reviews available here: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/media-studies-101

Develop skills as science communicators through projects and analysis of theoretical principles. Case studies explore the emergence of popular science communication over the past two centuries and consider the relationships among authors, audiences and media. Project topics are identified early in the term and students work with MIT Museum staff. Projects may include physical exhibits, practical demonstrations, or scripts for public programs.

" The science essay uses science to think about the human condition; it uses humanistic thinking to reflect on the possibilities and limits of science and technology. In this class we read and practice writing science essays of varied lengths and purposes. We will read a wide variety of science essays, ranging across disciplines, both to learn more about this genre and to inspire your own writing. This semester's reading centers on "The Dark Side," with essays ranging from Alan Lightman's "Prisoner of the Wired World" through Robin Marantz Henig's cautionary account of nano-technology ("Our Silver-Coated Future") to David Quammen's investigation of diseases that jump from animals to humans ("Deadly Contact")."

This course closely examines a coherent set of short texts and/or visual works. The selections may be the shorter works of one or more authors (poems, short stories or novellas), or short films and other visual media. Additionally, we will focus on formal issues and thematic meditations around the title of the course "Staying Alive." Content varies from semester to semester.

This course examines the nature of attitudes, beliefs, and values, and the influences which indiviudals' attitudes have upon their behavior. Various theories of attitude organization and attitude change are discussed, and the development of social attitudes is explored by examining the differential impact of the family, the educational system, the mass media, and the general social environment. The changing content of public opinion over time and its relationship to the political system are also discussed.

What happens to content in an era where the vast majority of publishing and reading happens on the Internet? What happens to us, as producers and consumers of the content? This book is a guide to thinking about the relationship between technology and the publishing industry, but in doing so, it offers a critical examination of the ways in which technologies are shaping our personal lives and the way we structure our society.

Table of Contents:
1. The Evolution of the Web
2. The Web Changes Things and We Change the Web
3. Internet Business Models
4. Data Privacy and Surveillance Capitalism
5. Copyright
6. Distribution and Discovery
7. Digital close reading: Humans Reading Digitally
8. Digital Distant Reading: Machines reading text

"Writing Fabulous Features" teaches the art and craft of feature writing to help readers learning to write non-fiction with flair.

Table of Contents:
I. Uncovering the Magic of Features
1. Getting Started
2. Finding Ideas
3. Finding Your Focus
4. Types of Features
5. Research
6. Spotlight On: Todd Jones

II. Interviewing
7. Let's Interview
8. Interviewing Basics
9. Relating to sources
10. Questions and Answers

III. Writing to be Read
11. Outlining
12. Writing it Out
13. Writing with Anecdotes
14. Writing the Lede
15. Crafting the Nut
16. Body Building
17. Writing to the End
18. The Touch Test
19. Spotlight on: Ted Conover

IV. Revising and Being Read
20. To See Again
21. Editors
22. Is it Ethical?
23. Time for Tips

V. Learning Features from the Experts
24. Learning Features with Owen Daugherty
25. Learning Features with Monica DeMeglio
26. Learning Features with Lori Kurtzman
27. Learning Features with Kristen Schmidt
28. Learning Features with Jeff Trimble
Feature Examples

Welcome to Writing for Electronic Media, an OER textbook. OER stands for Open Educational Resource, which means it’s free for all who access. Since it is electronic, I will do what I can to keep it updated with the changing media. People’s viewing habits are changing as they migrate to mobile sources, social media, and kitten videos.Television News is still a dominant #1 source, and radio is still the safest way to stay informed in your car. Hopefully, you already have some journalism background. This book does not teach the who, what, when, where, why, and how of reporting; its goal is to teach how to present the journalism you already know via electronic media, primarily television.

Table of Contents
1. The Newsroom
2. Leads
3. Common Mistakes
4. Interviewing
5. VOs
6. VOSOTs
7. PKGs
8. Producing
9. Teases and Promos
10. Live Shots
11. Social Media
12. Working With Photographers
13. Radio
14. Sports
15. Motivation and Ethics
16. The Job Market