Women in ITOpportunities and Challenges to Communication and the Humanities
Cindy Royal, Ph.D.School of Journalism and Mass CommunicationTexas State Universitycindyroyal.comFind this presentation at slideshare.net/cindyroyal
Hipster Learning
Preparing for jobs that don’t exist yet
Opportunities in digital media
How to stay current/lifelong learning
Teaching Tech in Mass Comm• Relevance to communication• Role of data in storytelling• Role of analytics in media
Opportunity to reach females
• Women make up 2/3 of students enrolled in mass communication programs
Not the case in computer science• Less than 12% of computer science degrees
are awarded to women
But my classes look like this…
• Students have gone on to roles as• Web Developer• Interactive Designer• Interactive Manager• Digital Marketing• Social Media Editor• Digital Strategist• And more…
Undergraduate Curriculum• Fundamentals of Digital/Online Media – new core class• Web Design and Publishing• Multimedia Journalism• Digital Storytelling
Graduate Curriculum• Issues in New Media• Online Media Design• Advanced Online Media• Content Management
Systems
Experience Learning• SXTXState.com• TXStateofChange.com• TXStateMCWeek.com
Experimentation
Make Things• Strong online portfolio • Start a blog• Learn to shoot and edit
video and audio• Take things
to the next level• Promote work on social
media
Network!• Both online and offline• Develop a professional social presence; positive,
interesting, passionate• Connect with professionals• Attend meetups
Stay up-to-date• Read blogs and tech publications• Try out new platforms• Do tutorials• Pay attention
Champion Women in Tech
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