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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