Chris Brauer Media Project [BLOG]

London Project is underway at City University in the Department of Journalism and Publishing. Students in the MA International Journalism program hit the streets from March 6-17 telling the stories of London places between 12pm-1pm each day. Visit the website for already published stories of London faces and London icons that describe the London experience. Make sure to visit journalism blogs from the same students to see their talents for electronic publishing.

Labels: academia, culture, education, london

The value of a good education echoes in the words and council of a legendary wiseman in T.H. White's The Once and Future King:

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."

It is an incredible experience studying for a PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London. I am entering my second year in sociology/computing and enjoying every minute of it. Head of Computing Professor Robert Zimmer and Brian Alleyne in sociology are my supervisors and offer a feast of inspired seminars, interdisciplinary forums and bulging reading lists. Learning at Goldsmiths is a beautiful thing.

Labels: academia, education, london

See also London Project

My classes of International MA Internet Journalism students at City University, London embark on an exciting foray into online publishing today. Each of them has setup an individual blog in Movable Type and will be submitting content weekly through the duration of the course. I encourage you to visit their sites for a global perspective on current affairs and cool from trained and aspiring professional journalists. Follow the read more link below this post to see a list of journalists and blogs.

Student Name	Blog Name	Country
Abdalrahman Abdalla	endless war	Iraq
Banu Aktas	banuaktas-news	Turkey
Charlie Angela	Writing on the Wall	UK
Omar Anwar	Iraq War: The Truth	Iraq
Jessica Au	Deep Fried Dumpling	Hong Kong
Sarah Barden	Sarah in the City	UK
Diego Bivero	thesqueeze	Venezuela
Milton Bragatti	ActionBrazil	Brazil
Lola Costantini	Flatmap	France
Rebekah Curtis	internationallondon	UK
Victoria Darves-Bornoz	French Perspective	France
Iryna Demchenko	irapavlenok_daily	Ukraine
Clara Denina	Blog me up	Italy
Javier Espinoza	Online News Junkie	El Salvador
Thomas Fessy	International News Freeze-Frame	France
James Fontanella	Red Politix	Italy
Jennifer Forsyth	Daily Spite	USA
Marie-Christin Hansen	WackyWorldNews	Germany
Irshadul Haque	irshadminorityinternational	India
Elisabeth Harnier	berlin4londoners	Germany
Maigari Halima	NigeriaHOME	Nigeria
Padraic Halpin	Ragged Words	Ireland
Stanislava Ivancheva	Movie Time	Bulgaria
Frank Johannsen	easyJustice	Germany
Haider Kadhum	Iraq	Iraq
James Kenny	Underground	Ireland
Teo Kermeliotis	Musica	Greece
John Kjorstad	Global a Go-Go News	USA
George Kyriakos	Captain's Log	Greece
Yu Liu	Reports for China	China
Yumei Liu	A tale of two cities	China
Renee Maltezou	Contraaddiction	Greece
Maayan Manela	Mefargenot	Israel
Brenda Marques	World without perspective	Portugal
Megan McCormick	Democrats in the UK	USA
Thomas Muirhead	Described Thoughts	UK
Zipporah Musau	xippy	Kenya
Catherine Neilan	World is Mine	UK
Jyotika Oberoi	global village	India
Deborah Odumuyiwa	deblog	Germany
Chitra Panjabi	Femme Politik	Hong Kong
Konstantina Papanikolaou	Tea and Sympathy	Greece
Rama Parajuli	Kathmandublog	Nepal
Amra Pasic	BHLink	Bosnia-Herzegovina
Isel Pizarro	Quiz Iz	USA
Safura Rahimi	JPersianLondoners	Canada
Shoaib Sharifi	Afghanistan Today	Afghanistan
Singhwi Neha	GlitzBlitzNtravel	India
Alessandro Speciale	a blog with a view	Italy
Diana Stech	Attitude Media	Canada
Balkiss Sulaiman	Naxalite	Malaysia
Carlo Svaluto Moreolo	news_freerider	Italy
Sumaa Tekur	Crystal Ball	India
Jennifer Trak	Dishrag	Canada
Ahmed Taha	baghdadmenews	Iraq
Gabriela Vieru	tiles of london	Romania
Taslima Viljoen	shesallthat	South Africa
Kimberly Vlach	You Can't Get There From Here	USA
Nkosazana Zuma	nkosi2blogornot2blog	South Africa

Labels: blog, education

I've started teaching a new course module at City University with four classes of International Journalism MA students (would-be Internet Journalists) from all over the world. It is a fascinating group of exceptionally talented people. You will hear more from them when they start blogging. For now, here's the links for their assignment of rewriting a piece of copy (week 3 lecture):

• Rewrite this story from the International Herald Tribune for the Internet
• Add Appendix: Detail any sidebars, graphics, photographs, or other media elements supporting rewrite
• Save copy in a formatted document using Microsoft Word (add hyperlinks) and attach to an email to assignment1 (@) chrisbrauer.com
• email subject: studentname_module_assignment1 (eg. cbrauer_3_assignment1)
• attachment format: studentname_module_assignment1.doc (eg. cbrauer_3_assignment1.doc)
• Research Resources: Use It, Sun, Amy Gahran, CyberJournalist, Poynter

Labels: academia, education

It is with great pleasure that I announce the launch of BlogScholar (www.blogscholar.com)!

Blogscholar is a brand new non-profit website designed to serve as a community for academic bloggers. It currently includes a directory of academic blogs, news and polls about the challenges and opportunities of academic blogging, and RSS Newsfeeds by topic from the likes of Noam Chmosky, Larry Lessig, and Joi Ito.

Built with Mambo open source software, the community is designed to be shaped by its users. The launch of Blogscholar as a hub of activity for academic blogging precedes the September, 2005 launch of my PhD research portal Netmodern (The Rebirth of the Sociological Imagination).

So visit to see what's happening in the world of academic blogging or sample blogs by academics generally about academic topics. If you are currently a teacher or student set up an account to add your blog to the directory, read/write comments and contribute news.

After six days of strenuous development from the conception of the idea to the implementation of the site this is a quiet launch, posted here on the perimeter of the blogosphere.

I dedicate the launch of this site to my parents, Jorn and Shirley, both educators, who fostered a healthy respect for learning and sharing knowledge in our house even before I can remember. :-)

Labels: education, internet