A new class at USC is teaching students how to produce stories specifically for social media

The video looks like something you might seen on a site like BuzzFeed or Mic: Two women – one a Spanish speaker, the other an Arabic speaker – are asked how to say different words in their respective language. Pants? Bantalon in Arabic and pantalones in Spanish. Shirt?

I am always looking for ways to slide sideways. What I mean is that I like to grab tools, processes, and ideas from other disciplines and use them in my discipline–teaching readers and writers how to read, write, research and share their work. I saw the Neiman Lab post about the Annenberg Journalism School’s JEDI Desk and that little sympathetic haptic sideslide tone thrilled me.

What I want to do here is not so much sum up what is available but rather to provide resources for others to follow if they want. Personally, when I run into a post that discusses three new techniques in social journalism (wearable/VR/drone) then I am hooked.

Here is an annotated link to the above article with mostly highlights of materials that I can use.

A new class at USC is teaching students how to produce stories specifically for social media ” Nieman Journalism Lab

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Here is a short bibliography of materials ripped straight from Google that can give a lot of depth to anyone’s search for new ways to “write” for emerging social media.

1. Periscope surfaces at #IRE15 – #Streamalism: Journalism meets live streaming mobile video
2. News startup Billy Penn to create mobile journalism guide with $106,000 from Knight Foundation – Knight Foundation
3. Futures Lab Update #126: Google News Lab’s Story Spheres + 3-D Mobile Apps | MediaShift
4. 5 reasons mobile will disrupt journalism like the Internet did a decade ago | Poynter.
5. Investigative Reporters and Editors | 2014 IRE Conference: Deep dive: Mobile-first journalism, making big stories work on small screens
6. The New New Media: Mobile, Video and Other Emerging Platforms | What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism
7. Evrybit | Live mobile storytelling
8. How Tech-Savvy Journalism Students View Innovation – American Journalism Review
9. Mobile and Emerging Platforms Journalism Team
10. Why Your Brand Needs an Emerging Platforms Editor — The Content Strategist
11. ITMC: JOUR499 Journalism For Mobile & Emerging Platforms | ATVN
12. JOUR 499: Journalism for Mobile and Emerging Platforms: Syllabus
13. Journalism’s emerging platforms

I could curate this further, but if you have gotten to the bottom of this long post I should explain my purpose here.  I proscribed a time limit on this post.  I wanted something I could come back to myself.  I wanted readers to explore on their own and curate a bit for themselves beyond my blitz filtering above. I could say that for my purposes I would read in this order to start: 13/12/7…but I’d rather you discovered your own way if you are truly interested.

Perhaps I should have used Storify?