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| The New Media Lab was started in 1995 to educate journalists to use, develop and interrogate new media information and communication technologies as platforms for professional journalism and tools for public communication. NML offers learners insight into the latest technology and technology strategy, preparing them with the intellectual skills to work in this environment in a manner that is critically reflective. Students in the New Media Lab are empowered with the foundations to become knowledge producers in a modern newsroom environment. |
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 Future journos blog on MyDigital LifeSubmitted by jude on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 13:54.Fourth-year journalism students from Rhodes University's New Media Lab are drumming up experience in blog writing and managing social media, and earning some money while doing so.The New Media Lab has partnered with My Digital Life (www.mydl.co.za), an online social media and blogging hub owned by business technology media company ITWeb. ITWeb/NML scholarships grow own timberSubmitted by jude on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 12:49.Three journalism students at Rhodes University are the winners of the 2011 ITWeb Journalism Scholarship. Masetshaba Mpete, Gregory Peake and Mallory Perrett - third-year journalism students at the Rhodes School of Journalism and Media Studies - are the winners of the ITWeb Journalism Bursary for 2011. Tweeting in a time of radical changeSubmitted by jude on Sun, 07/04/2010 - 21:00.Educators need to refresh Journalism, Media and Communication Studies curricula to help make sense of a radically changing mediascape. This was the message to delegates from UNESCO's Centres of Journalism Excellence and Reference who attended a programme titled Capacitating COE's for Real-Time Journalism and Media Studies just ahead of the second World Journalism Educators' Congress. New Media Lab lecturer, Jude Mathurine shared lessons from Rhodes' School of Journalism and Media Studies' own change to a converged curriculum. He called on delegates to consider three key ideas: UNESCO and NML strengthen journalism education in AfricaSubmitted by jude on Sun, 08/30/2009 - 21:00.A partnership between UNESCO and the Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies will put the spotlight on strengthening African journalism education in September 2009. The joint activities planned over a week-long period are: Lab learns from German connectionsSubmitted by jude on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 15:34.New Media Lab lecturer, Jude Mathurine is back from a lightning trip to Stuttgart, Germany where he presented a paper to the Africa Forum for Development. |
 Microblogging mattersSubmitted by sandra parmee on Fri, 05/24/2013 - 07:48.While I would recommend blogging for most businesses, some might find microblogging more suited to their needs. If you perhaps have a small business with a younger target market, you don’t feel like corporate blogging would be appealing to your market, then microblogging might be the path you want to go down.
 Textbooks vs. Tablets - step into the futureSubmitted by christina on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 20:45.
Image credit: Indi Samarajiva  Medical diagnosis:There's an app for that!Submitted by Precious Mncwango on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 07:48.
Photo by: Butt Seriously Blog AmSurg  Copper Theft Effects TelecomsSubmitted by amitie on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 07:45.Network downtime and power cuts; copper cable theft delays trains, stops business and cuts off critical communications. We do not need to track our daily reliance on copper cable very far before realising that cable theft, which results in power outages, can have a crippling effect on the way we are connected and our ability to communicate. |
