South Africa: Nokia promotes mobile journalism through student project
Posted by Liam Berkowitz on July 9, 2008 at 8:56 AM
Nokia is teaming with two South African universities to sponsor a project in which students will create mobile journalism ('mojo') packages. Students at the University of Witwatersrand (UW) and CityVarsity will use 'mojo' broadcasting kits, featuring the Nokia N95 handset, to capture video, audio, and images.
"This is one of the first projects in the world to use mobile phones as the tools for gathering stories and as the platforms that the audience will watch them on," says Indra de Lanerolle, a lecturer at UW's journalism program.
The project began in mid-June and will run until October. Students are expected to produce new material at least once daily.
"The challenge we are setting our students is to use these great storytelling devices to produce content that their peers will want to watch and download," says de Lanerolle.
Related: The cost-efficiency of mobile journalism
Source: Sangonet, 24.com
"This is one of the first projects in the world to use mobile phones as the tools for gathering stories and as the platforms that the audience will watch them on," says Indra de Lanerolle, a lecturer at UW's journalism program.
The project began in mid-June and will run until October. Students are expected to produce new material at least once daily.
"The challenge we are setting our students is to use these great storytelling devices to produce content that their peers will want to watch and download," says de Lanerolle.
Related: The cost-efficiency of mobile journalism
Source: Sangonet, 24.com
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 packages. Students at the <b>University of Witwatersrand</b> (UW) and <b>CityVarsity</b> will use 'mojo' broadcasting kits, featuring the Nokia N95 handset, to capture video, audio, and images. <br /><br />"This is one of the first projects in the world to use mobile phones as the tools for gathering stories and as the platforms that the audience will watch them on," says <b>Indra de Lanerolle</b>, a lecturer at UW's journalism program.<br /><br /><div align="center"><form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="627" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="Thumbnail image for Picture 5.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/Picture%205-thumb-250x134.png" class="mt-image-none" style="" height="134" width="250" /></form></div> <br /><br />The project began in mid-June and will run until October. Students are expected to produce new material at least once daily.<br /><br />"The challenge we are setting our students is to use these great storytelling devices to produce content that their peers will want to watch and download," says de Lanerolle.<br /><br />Related: <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2008/07/us_when_mobile_journalism_also_helps_to.php">The cost-efficiency of mobile journalism</a><br /><br />Source: <a href="http://www.sangonet.org.za/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9726&Itemid=1">Sangonet</a>, <a href="http://mobile.24.com/?p=mobilenews&i=958376">24.com</a><br /><br /> &title=South Africa: <b>Nokia</b> promotes mobile journalism through student project){kind=link}
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