The cyberjournal as a teaching tool: from technique to practice

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2004

Authors

Leal, Pedro (Author) FLUP; Zamith, Fernando (Author) FLUP; Nunes, Sérgio Sobral (Author) FLUP; Giesteira, Bruno (Author) FBAUP; Lima, Helena (Author) FLUP; Couto, Sandra Sá (Author) Other; Costa, Emília (Author) FLUP; Fonseca, Cristina (Author) FLUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Cara a novos espazos ciberxornalísticos: Actas do Congreso Iberoamericano de Xornalismo Dixital = Hacia nuevos espacios ciberperiodísticos. Actas del II Congreso Iberoamericano de Periodismo Digital

II Congreso Iberoamericano de Periodismo Digital = II Congreso Iberoamericano de Xornalismo Dixita

Santiago de Compostela, Galiza, Espanha, 29 a 30 de novembro de 2004

Scientific classification

FOS: Humanities > Other humanities

Other information

Abstract (EN): the interdisciplinary work that culminated in the creation of the cyberjournal Jornalismo- PortoNet (JPN) in March 2004. The primary purpose of JPN was to provide an academic training post for last term students, simulating the editorial office of a newspaper. Taking advantage of the interdisciplinary and human resources of the course, a scheme has been implemented for editing and publishing news material, involving teachers from particular fields of Design, Computer Science and Journalism. The idea was to make the most of the potentialities offered by internet, choosing news building structures to suit this new process (open, in tree, multilinear, and with parallel linkages), by means of text blocks hyperconnected to one another. The goals proposed in this initial phase of JPN which lasted until the first days in June were globally reached. Although JPN was not widely advertised, its visibility was good, reaching some twenty thousand visits in the two and half months of intensive work. In all, more than 900 articles and dozens of radio and television reports were prepared and transmitted. These results make the authors conclude that the cyberjournal is an excellent tool in Journalism teaching, considering its low production and distribution costs and the internet potentialities as medium of communication wherein all the other media converge.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: A versão em língua portuguesa do mesmo congresso encontra-se registada no Módulo de Publicações em: https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/pt/PUB_GERAL.PUB_VIEW?pi_pub_base_id=76007

No. of pages: 13