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Abstract
As the journalism profession continues to reinvent itself, journalism professors struggle to keep up with technological advancements that provide their students with industry-relevant skills. This study seeks to understand how journalism professors find information about online tools for teaching, to learn about the efficacy of their current strategies for navigating the fractured information landscape. The diffusion of innovations perspective is applied to in-depth qualitative interviews with journalism professors. The study finds that early adopters are the most adept at seeking information about, and using, online tools. Consequently, they experience the least stress around information seeking about online tools.
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Author Biographies
Katherine Hepworth is a communication design practitioner-researcher currently working as assistant professor of Visual Journalism at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno. She has a broad research interest in improving communication effectiveness in higher education. In her research, teaching, and professional practice Hepworth takes a human centered approach to communication design, prioritizing understanding of people’s lived experience of, and interaction with communication design artifacts and technologies.
Donica Mensing (PhD) is associate dean at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has been an educator since 1999 and written extensively on journalism education and its relationship to community and innovation.
Gi Woong Yun (PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison). Gi Woong Yun’s research areas are online politics, social media big data, health risk, and virtual reality. He likes to develop new classes incorporating new theories and tools in journalism and mass communication.
