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Internet Research Team

The Internet Research Team is a student-led group of scholars interested in exploring, discussing, and using online and digital research methods. The group also includes faculty and staff and meets regularly throughout the year. We invite people of all levels of technical skills who are conducting or have an interest in online and digital research to join the group here on the Commons and attend the meetings.

For more information, please contact us at cunyirt@gmail.com.

Edwin Mayorga & Micki Kaufman, Coordinators
Collette Sosnowy, PhD & Kiersten Greene, PhD, Founders

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JustPublics@365 Mediacamp – FREE January Classes – Please sign up

  • Posted by Jessie Daniels on November 15, 2012 at 8:30 am

    The MediaCamp is a partnership between JustPublics@365 and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, to offer skills-building workshops for intellectuals who want to combine research and digital media for the public good.

    Courses in January include:

    Framing Research for Public Audiences: 3 hours, 1-4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8. Instructor: Deb Stead, J-School. Lecture with hands-on exercises on framing research to resonate with diverse audiences: talking points, headlines, Interviews, op-eds. Maximum 30 students. To register: http://jp365framing.eventbrite.com/#

    Big Media for Academics: 3 hours, 1-4 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 15. Instructors: Fred Kaufman and Susan Farkas, J-School. A hands-on class involving technique and some examples of on-camera interviews from the faculty learners who are involved in the class. Maximum 30 students.
    To register: http://justpublics365bigmedia.eventbrite.com/#

    Social Media for Research Impact: 3 hours, 9 a.m.-12 noon, Tuesday, Jan. 22, Instructors TBA. The theory of social media for academics. Why are we doing this? Conceptual, theoretic. Maximum 30 students.
    To register: http://justpublics365impact.eventbrite.com/#

    Social Media for Academics: (Level: Intro/intermediate). 3 hours, 1-4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, Instructors TBA. This is a hands-on workshop for academics interested in taking the social media plunge. Instructors will cover setting up a WordPress blog and some basics of using Twitter. Maximum 15 students.
    To register: http://justpublics365socmedia.eventbrite.com/#

    Beyond Bullet Points for Academics. 3 hours, 1-4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, Instructors TBA. Participants create visually compelling slide decks for academic research presentations that retain intellectual sophistication. Maximum 15 students.
    To register: http://justpublics365beyond.eventbrite.com/#

    There are more classes at the CUNY J-School’s January Academy (2013) listed here:
    http://www.journalism.cuny.edu/academics/january-academy-2013/

    Please let me know (jdaniels@hunter.cuny.edu) if you want to take any of those courses, I can see that you get them for the no-cost-to-you-price of FREE.

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