The Atlantic is launching an ebooks division that will publish e-singles and curated collections of content from the magazine’s archives. The first e-single is only available through Amazon’s Kindle Singles store for now, though it will soon be available at other retailers.
LJ Digital: Okay, I may be late to the show on this one but in case you haven’t heard or use Flipboard, I think it’s time you start! Watch the commercial and find that this iPad and iPhone app (Android app coming soon) allows you to create your own magazine built by your favorite articles. Anything from news to politics to travel is available for you to swipe, share, “like,” and most importantly, read. There is even a bookmark tab available to add to your bookmarks bar for you to easily add new articles to your Flipboard! Start building your own magazine today!
LJ Digital: Please stop by UC Irvine this Thursday, April 18th for the literary journalism and history department’s Digital Storytelling: A Symposium! We will be honored with guests from the Atavist, Byliner, Longform.org, and more! The event is free and open to the public and will take place from 11-6:30pm. There will be a variety of talented journalists and writers so please try and make it!
Join the Literary Journalism Program, the Department of History, and the Office of the Campus Writing Coordinator for a ONE-DAY symposium on new developments in digital storytelling.
DIGITAL STORYTELLING: A SYMPOSIUM
THURSDAY, 18 APRIL 2013
11 A.M.-6:30 P.M.
UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
11-12:00 “The Future of Digital Publishing”: A Roundtable
Humanities Instructional Building 137
Moderated and introduced by Kavita Philip (UCI History)
Featuring:
Tom Lutz, Founder and Editor, LA Review of Books; Professor, UC Riverside
Department of Creative Writing
Angilee Shah, journalist, editor, and blogger (angileeshah.com)
Mark Bryant, Editor-in-Chief of Byliner.com
Nancie Clare, Founder and Editor of Noir Magazine (noirmagazine.tumblr.com)
Mike Sager, Writer-at-Large for Esquire and founder of digital publishing imprint The Sager Group (www.thesagergroup.com)
12:30-1:30 PM Master Class on Digital Narratives, Hosted by The Atavist
Humanities Gateway Building 1010
Gray Beltran, Multimedia Producer and Community Editor, The Atavist
Moderated by Erika Hayasaki, UCI English and Literary Journalism
1:30-3:00 Lunch Reception and Display of Student Digital Narrative Projects
Humanities Gateway 1010
3-4:30 PM Live Podcast Interview by Longform of Vanessa Grigoriadis
Humanities Gateway 1030
Interviewers: Aaron Lammer and Max Linsky of Longform.org
4-5 PM Coffee Reception and Display of Student Digital Narratives
Humanities Gateway 1010
5-6:30 PM “Storytelling, Narrative, and Writing in the Digital Age”: A Panel Discussion Moderated by: Barry Siegel and Erika Hayasaki (UCI English and Literary
Journalism)
Humanities Gateway 1030
*Featuring*:
Charles Homans, Editor, The Atavist
Jim Giles, Editor, Matter
Aaron Lammer, Editor, Longform
Mark Bryant, Editor-in-Chief of Byliner.com
PRESS RELEASE: UC IRVINE LITERARY JOURNALISM TO HOST ONE-DAY
SYMPOSIUM ON “DIGITAL STORYTELLING,” 4/18/13 11-6:30 PM
—-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—-
By Erika Hayasaki
In 1946, John Hersey published the 31,000-word narrative nonfiction piece, “Hiroshima,” which filled an entire issue of The New Yorker, and later went on to become a short book. In the decades that followed, dedicating that much print space to a single journalism story in a newspaper or magazine didn’t happen very often, and in recent years, with cutbacks in newspapers and magazines, some feared longform journalism would die altogether.
But a shift toward e-reading over the last three years has led to an unexpected reemergence of the mid-length story — those pieces too long to be articles, too short to be traditional books. In the digital age, the 10,000 to 30,000-word story has staked its place as a viable literary form. These stories are now marketed digitally between 99-cents and $5—longform journalism that fits in your pocket or purse,
designed to be read within a few hours.
This month, the UCI community will discuss, debate and celebrate emerging trends in digital narrative and storytelling, highlighting a cross-disciplinary interest in new media and technology “Digital Storytelling: A Symposium,” hosted by UCI’s Literary Journalism Program, the Department of History, and the Center for Excellence in
Writing and Communication, with additional sponsorship from the Office of the Chancellor, and staff support from the Department of English.
The one-day symposium will take place on Thursday, April 18 on the UCI campus, bringing together local and national figures working in high-profile positions in digital and traditional media and fostering connections between academic and public writers to discuss questions including: Is the novella making a comeback? How do storytelling techniques like the narrative arc and the cliffhanger evolve with these changing formats? Is there a future for the traditional book? How can writers make a living in this new era of publishing? How have mainstream publishers and newspapers embraced or rejected digital formats? What is the difference between a Kindle Single and a Nook Snap? Is an Apple Quick Read as quick as a Kobo
ShortRead? And just how long, or short, are #Longreads?
“Digital Storytelling: A Symposium,” will feature guest speakers including Mark Bryant, the editor-in-chief of Byliner, a San Francisco-based company that launched in April 2011, devoted specifically to longform (or mid-length) journalism and fiction. The company has seen unprecedented success, with one of its nonfiction stories making it to the top of The New York Times bestseller list last year — an impressive feat, since the 20,000-word narrative was competing against full-length traditional books. This year, two of its stories are National Magazine Award finalists.
The event will also feature speakers from The Atavist, a Brooklyn-based digital publisher that has layered music, maps, videos, audio, and animation into its nonfiction narratives. The Atavist will offer a digital storytelling “master class” open to the campus and public. Other guest speakers will include editors from the Los Angeles Review of Books, New York-based Longform.org, Noir (a Los Angeles-based digital publication for crime stories), and Matter, a science and technology based longform journalism organization that raised over $140,000 through Kickstarter. Other panelists include Mike Sager, a bestselling author and award-winning reporter for Esquire magazine who also founded The Sager Group, a
consortium of multi-media artists and writers. There will also be a live Longform podcast interview with National Magazine award winner Vanessa Grigoriadis, a contributing editor at New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. The UCI symposium will build upon topics discussed last year in a lecture course, “Narratives in a Digital Age,” launched by the school’s Literary Journalism Program. The popular course welcomed 70 tweeting, tumblring, instagramming,
facebooking students who arrived on the first day armed with their devices: about 37% of the class owned I-Pads, Kindles, Nooks or other tablet reading devices, according to an informal survey.
However, 56% still preferred reading on a printed page, while 28% preferred digital, either on a tablet, computer or phone, and 16% liked reading both print and digital. However, most students still valued the paper page — 72% of them believed the future of publishing would be a blend of print and digital, while the rest believed it would be solely digital.
Whatever the future of publishing looks like, one point can’t be ignored: “The new digital venues and publications convincingly demonstrate that long form narrative nonfiction can survive and flourish in the age of the Internet,” said Barry Siegel, Director of the UC Irvine Literary Journalism Program. “ Despite epochal change,
literary journalists still have many places—in fact, more places than ever—where they can tell their story.”
EVENT DETAILS:
APRIL 18, 2013
11 A.M.-6:30 P.M.
UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES: HUMANITIES GATEWAY AND HUMANITIES INSTRUCTIONAL BUILDING
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC—ALL WELCOME
For more information on Digital Storytelling: A Symposium please contact the Assistant Director of Literary Journalism, Patricia Pierson, piersonp@uci.edu, or Assistant Professor of Literary Journalism Erika Hayasaki ehayasak@uci.edu. Special thanks to the Humanities Research Institute.
First, a little context. The popular electronic reader, the Kindle, was introduced less than six years ago. Yet adult e-book sales are already outpacing adult hardcover sales. In fact, Price Waterhouse Coopers, in their Global Entertainment and Media Outlook report, projects that e-books will make up 50 percent of the U.S. trade book market by 2016. Increasingly these books are being consumed on full featured Apple, Amazon and Android tablets.
Last year we invested in a start-up digital publisher called Open Air Publishing. The company focuses on creating how-to books for tablets. Two weeks ago they released their latest title, a high end digital parenting book that caters to mothers and fathers called Ready, Set, Baby!
LJ Digital: I never mind a good how-to book. Now we can get them digitally.
Here is a nice use of HTML5 to enhance a digital edition of a book on well, HTML5 Programming.
Check out this nice video explanation (except for the opening music) then click on the link above for instructions on how the check out the book itself.
Reblogged from ebookporn
For Students: a New Multimedia Storytelling Competition
From the multimedia magazine the Atavist. Beginning January 1, 2013, students are invited to participate in the above competition by submitting a long-form, nonfiction story that isn’t just writing — the judges want to see photography, video, narration and illustrations. Whatever’s appropriate and fits into the Atavist’s editorial platform.
There are openings for high school, college and grad students. Enter here, and good luck.
OH. MY. GOD.
LJ Digital: ^^ what I said on my other blog. This is an EXCELLENT opportunity for journalism students interested in the future of media in the digital age. Get your multimedia stories out there, guys!!
Reblogged from Partons Vite
In electronic media, lying has become less serious. We seem to have a more cavalier attitude to the truth than we did a long time ago. There’s no longer a clear distinction between reality and fantasy because with social media, the distinction between news and entertainment has been so eroded, that this clear and important difference has been lost.
David Livingstone Smith, associate professor of philosophy at the University of New England in Biddeford, Me, to the New York Times. Disruptions: Twitter’s Uneasy Role in Guarding the Truth.
Last week saw a lot of handwringing over misinformation spread through social networks about the effects and responses to Sandy as the storm hit the east coast. In particular, to the @comfortablysmug Twitter feed where Shashank Tripathi posted purposefully fabricated stories that first responders needed to respond to set the record straight.
Rumor, fabrication and outright falsehood has been around since anything’s been around though. If it’s not that humans like to lie, a good portion of us do… or least tell a good yarn.
Important though is that while our social media provides an easy outlet for misinformation to go viral, it’s also a platform for crowdsourcing corrections more quickly than ever before. Or, at least, that’s the optimists view.
Pessimists can point to censorship and propaganda regimes that flood social media, message boards and other online gathering places with a consistent barrage of misinformation of their own.
(via futurejournalismproject)
Reblogged from Partons Vite
Cision and Canterbury Christ Church University have published the results of its annual Social Journalism Study, which charts the changes in the use of social media amongst journalists and media professionals.
The study, which involved 769 participants, compared online, broadcast and magazine journalists and found that online and broadcast journalists use a greater variety of social media tools. 70 per cent of broadcast journalists and 66.5 per cent of online journalists use more than five types of social media tools for work in a typical week, compared with 52.4 per cent of newspaper journalists and 51.2 per cent of magazine journalists.
Reblogged from Canadian Hyperlocal News Project
A new platform called Spundge, which was unveiled at the Online News Association conference on Friday (21 September), has been built in a bid to help improve the efficiency of journalists’ digital workflows and their ability to keep track of their beat and stories online.
The platform aims to help journalists “gather, curate and publish a lot faster”, journalist in residence at Spundge Craig Silverman told Journalism.co.uk.
In a blog post explaining the thinking behind the platform, Silverman explains the concept is to offer a “terminal for journalists”.
Reblogged from Canadian Hyperlocal News Project
(via The Electronic Corpse)
So far this story is “written” in words, photos, gifs, voicemails, texts, and google maps. It’s really cool and you shouldn’t miss it.
The only cure for the depression over having missed the beginning of all of this is the delight of now having it in my life. And that the culminating event will be hosted by two of my favorite things: Rachel and Chicago Public Library.
Reblogged from shhh! no running in the library!
It’s true that the peer review process is the standard in academia, as it should be. But blogging gives us a chance to write in a more personalized voice, and is often a mere Google search or Facebook share away from the reader, rather than being locked behind a journal’s paywall, or tucked away in a dissertation in some faraway library. It can increase the visibility of our own research and of our chosen fields.
So wrote Anthropologist Patrick Clarkin earlier this week. He claims that, instead of distracting us, social media can strengthen academic community and research.
He starts by reminding us of the high costs that go into obtaining academic journals, contacting researchers, and coordinating with others in his field. He then notes how he’s gotten around that by going online:
I’ve used social media such as Twitter to promote some things I’ve written on my blog, which others have kindly shared with their followers and even turned into assigned readings for their students. Some of those writings have gotten me some praise from my department chair, brought me invitations to conferences, helped me find a co-author, and have helped me to share some ideas with a wider audience.
Clarkin also writes about dealing with low readership after graduation because of one’s age and lack of experience. Blogging helps young, under appreciated researchers publish anyway.
Another academic has written something similar — Liana Silva, a minority scholar, says that blogging is vital to her research as public interest and funding move away from her field.
From her post in the Guardian:
For minority scholars, such as myself, blogging is not just a bullet point on a CV; it is an intrinsic part of what my research is about: a commitment to making the struggles, achievements and contradictions of African Americans, Puerto Ricans or women visible to the broader population. I cannot afford silence. Blogging allows me a platform to talk about issues that may go unnoticed, or issues where the point of view of a person of colour or of a woman have been left in the cold.
FJP: Fighting the good fight. We like that.
(via futurejournalismproject)
Reblogged from Partons Vite
Introducing Stowaway, our first nonfiction enhanced e-comic!
Available for iPad/iPhone and on the web for only $2.99!
Reblogged from Atavist
The Hope of Participatory Journalism
Some time ago, we interviewed Farai Chideya, multimedia journalist, entrepreneur, and a lady full of heart, art, and passion. In this video, she discusses participatory journalism and the evolving world in which journalists, news organizations, and audiences can collaborate to create meaningful stories.
For more thoughts about citizen journalism, check out the FJP archives.
For more interviews with smart journalism thinkers, see here.
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A blog created by the Literary Journalism Department @ the University of California, Irvine, dedicated to discussions about non-fiction narratives in this ever-evolving era of E-books, E-readers, Blogs, Instapaper, The Atavist, Byliner, Amazon's Kindle Singles and all other new media outlets open to promoting great journalism. LJ Digital is managed by Asst. Prof. Erika Hayasaki and Cleo Tobbi, intern and UCI literary journalism student.
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