Journalism: Interactive Storytelling & New Media
blinkx - A Meta-Video Search Engine Over 18 million hours of video. An advanced video search engine, fed by spiders that crawl the web for audio video content. Retrieves library holdings as well as holding of over 200 leading content and media companies. Uses visual analysis and speech recognition to better understand rich media content. Search for content, and create personal channels that automatically splice relevant content together.
Center for Digital Storytelling "...a non-profit training, project development, and research organization dedicated to assisting people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories .... also offer workshops for organizations and individuals and serve as an international clearinghouse of information and resources about storytelling and new media."
CyberJournalist: Great Work Gallery Interactive stories, Weblog journalism, Student work, Use of flash, Multimedia, Award-winning and more categories of examples of online news media... "There's no better way to learn than by examining great work."
Digital Storytelling: Gateway to Resources Very extensive list of Key Digital Storytelling Web Sites, Books and Articles, Tools and Resources, Digital Story Archives, Interactive Story Environments, etc.
Elements of Digital Storytelling This site, of the Institute for New Media Studies and New Directions for News, University of Minnesota, is a "Taxonomy of digital storytelling; Analysis of current practices; Clearinghouse of effects research; Showcase of innovative story forms; Forum for discussion."
E-OnTheInternet (e-OTI) Covers telecommunications and new media. "...is the international electronic magazine and information resource of the Internet Society.... discusses the ongoing development of Internet technology and its impact on business, education, and society. Through feature-length articles, commentary, network news, and interactive conversation..."
Journalism & GIS (Geographic Information Systems) See discussions on the theory and methods of integrating GIS into journalism. See also, NU Library's Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department to receive GIS assistance.
Media History Project An interesting site for "Promoting the study of media history from petroglyphs to pixels." University of Minnesota.
MediaShift " a weblog that will track how new media—from weblogs to podcasts to citizen journalism—are changing society and culture" and offers more.
Newseum: The Interactive Museum of News Maintained by the Freedom Forum. See, for example, videoblogging, Today's Front Pages (from 59 countries), and other online offerings.
Notable Narratives: Nieman Narratives Digest A useful and good collection of examples of narrative journalism.
Second Story Examples of media-rich storytelling which strives "...to expand the possibilities of interactive media both technologically and experientially."
Six Billion An online magazine of narrative journalism.
You Tube: USC School of Cinematic Arts Example of creation of audio/visual site on You Tube.
