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Do Journalists Dream of Electric Sheep?

This is for a Interactive in the category for a Intermediate audience.

From open journalism and distributed pro-am collaboration to realtime crisis mapping, ambient sensing and distribution, wearable computing, predictive journalism, news AI (artificial intelligence), big data and beyond, this session examines emergent technologies’ ground-level disruptive impact on practical newsgathering, how they are being used, and what lies ahead.

Participants will leave with an understanding of seismic shifts to come and critical making for a practical, strategic framework to build the sustainable news services of the future.

QUESTIONS ANSWERED:
What disruptive change and technologies will shape news in the near to medium term?
How will change affect collection, production and markets for news?
What is a journalist’s role in making this happen?
How can journalists critically, and strategically lead and prepare for change?
How can journalists collaborate with citizen mappers to improve the quality of their coverage?

The session will be a blend of presentation, Q&A, hands-on design jam and/or exercises, modelling and “play” (as time allocation allows), and discussion.

This is you during and/or after attending this session:
http://j.mp/skcmac

This is you if you don’t attend this session:
http://j.mp/skcmrfwic

… or this is you after you hear about what you missed from those who did attend:
http://j.mp/skcmhs

Here is an audio stream to wrap your head around critical making:
http://j.mp/cbcsmr

How does your submission contribute to the diversity of the conference?

CONTENT DIVERSITY I have not seen any discussion of disruption and critical making as essential aspects of journalism anywhere. As far as I know, I am the only person looking at this as a practical necessity and historical and future norm. I am currently working on an initiative to model and demonstrate the session's themes as a practical journalistic enterprise. PRESENTER DIVERSITY I am a Canadian Muslim journalist of South Asian ancestry who has worked on staff and independently in digital, print and broadcast as an editor and reporter for outlets that include the CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corp,]; Toronto Star, Metro International, Globe and Mail, National Post and New York Times newspapers. I am currently an independent journalist focused on researching and developing tools and techniques for next-generation news. I was chairman and director of the Canadian Association of Journalists for a decade.

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Saleem Khan | @saleemkhan

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