Course： DIGITAL JOURNALISM 2009 - Keio Graduate School of Media Design
Semester： Spring
Instructor： Joi Ito
Language： English primary / Japanese secondary
Dates: Every Wednesday from 14:45 to 16:15 June 17 - July 29. 7 classes in total.
Requirements: Students must bring personal computers to each class and students must be willing to post articles on the Internet using their real names.
Copyright: All course material, syllabus and student material will be owned by the creator and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license unless otherwise noted

Description：Journalism has been evolved around mass media, but with the rise of the Internet media, journalism is starting to drastically change, through web and blogging, as well as social networking.  This course reviews and discusses how the current mass media-based journalism changes its form to account for the emerging media infrastructure.

The course will involve learning to use new tools for research stories, conducting interviews, photographing and recording, publishing stories and having conversations online. The students will be required to learn to use the tools and collaborate on actual works to be published during the course.

There will be a list of projects which will expand over the period of the class. Students will be graded on the number and the quality of execution of these projects. These projects can be done individually or in groups.

There will optional workshops on some of the weekends.

Syllabus

Guest Speakers/Instructors

Nob Seki - CEO Six Apart Japan
Dan Gillmor - Author, We The Media
Takehiko Koyanagi - Nikkei reporter
Motohiko Tokuriki - Agile Media Network, Blogger
Toshio Kuramata - NHK
Nobuyuki 'Nobi' Hayashi - Blogger, freelance journalist