How social media are changing journalism
University of British Columbia, November 2011
UBC Robson, Vancouver, November 2011
From the Middle East protests to the Occupy movement to the Vancouver riots, people are sharing their impressions, photos and video through social media. Through breaking news on Twitter to recommending a news story on Facebook, social media are becoming ever more ingrained in journalism.  UBC Continuing Studies and the UBC Graduate School of Journalism hosted a discussion about the role of social media in journalism.

New Literacies, New Media and New Journalism? An institutional perspective on transformative pedagogy in journalism education
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference
Indiana University Bloomington, October 2011
As a situated practice, journalism is governed by time and space and certain literacy practices. Due to the impact of social media and networked technologies, it is no longer sufficient to evaluate proficiency in tasks that reflect prevailing news industry practices. What is the nature of change in the pedagogical signature of this field? We find that disciplinary knowledge structures influence faculty readiness to change and its articulation is of value to our peers.

Implications of social media for education
WorldViews Conference on Media and Higher Education
University of Toronto, June 2011

The Active Recipient: Participatory Journalism Through the Lens of the Dewey-Lippmann Debate
International Symposium on Online Journalism, University of Texas, Austin, April 2011
This study draws on the work of Lippmann and Dewey to frame how journalists view participatory journalism. Based on semi-structured interviews with professionals at 24 newspaper websites from 10 countries, as well as a consideration of the sites, we found that the public is largely framed as a source for, and as a discussant of, the news, with little agency over how news is defined, reported or produced. We suggest that journalists view audiences as “active recipients”, somewhere between passive receivers and active creators of content, straddling the space between Lippmann and Dewey.

How UBC scholars are responding to human rights issues within and beyond the West
The Laurier Institution, UBC Robson, Vancouver, November 18, 2010
The impact of social media on democratic political movements

The digital narrative in social media
The International Digital Media Arts Association Conference, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, November 6, 2010
This keynote looked at how social media technologies provide structures for collaborative and decentralised story-telling.

Application of visualization technologies in journalism to enhance public knowledge
IBM CASCON conference, Toronto, November 2, 2010
This presentation considered the application of visualization tools in journalism, with particular emphasis on the preparation, manipulation and visual representation of complex data, both structured and unstructured.

How to plan and launch a convergent student website
AEJMC, Denver, USA, August 4, 2010
This presentation explained how the UBC Graduate School of Journalism created TheThunderbird.ca website to serve as a publishing platform for student course work. The site is part of the school’s Integrated Journalism program.

Lessons from an integrated approach in journalism education
IAMCR, Braga, Portugal, July 21, 2010
This presentation explores how the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia has developed a transformative model of professional journalism learning across media platforms. Over the past four years, we have sought to realign our core first-year journalism Masters program through our Integrated Journalism program that brought together a number of existing course. Our approach draws from studies in new literacies that suggest the new technologies, new rules, and new skill sets necessitate a new conceptual framework for journalism and journalism education.

Wikifying the CBC: Social software at CBC Radio 3
Northern Voice, Vancouver, May 7-8, 2010
This presentation provides a behind the scenes look at how CBC Radio 3 developed a Canadian Music Wiki where music fans and professionals can collaborate, communicate and create a rich cultural hub of Canadian knowledge for Canadians.

New journalism, new ethics?
University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 30, 2010
When journalists join the media revolution: The session explores the ethical issues that arise when mainstream journalists use new media, including social media, blogs and Twitter.

11th International Symposium on Online Journalism
University of Texas, Austin, April 23-24, 2010
Wikifying the CBC: Reimagining the remit of public service media, Alfred Hermida and Amanda Ash

UBC 2010 e-Learning Open House
University of British Columbia, January 28, 2010
JournalismTV.ca project designed to maintain and increase student involvement with in-depth theoretical issues and ethical practices in journalism through the creation of a series of interactive teaching online modules