21st-Century Journalism | Design Thinking
Gaming the System
Many of the systems which define our world today – including government systems of laws and regulations – are dysfunctional, or even broken. What would it mean to look at...
Blog
21st-Century Journalism | Systems Thinking | Wicked Problems
How Systems Thinking Helps Make Sense of Harvey Weinstein
When the news broke in October 2017 about Harvey Weinstein and his long history of sexual assault and harassment, I wanted to understand the full scope of the problem: How...
Design Ethics | Events
Technology, Addiction, and Time Well Spent
Time Well Spent, the nonprofit started by repentant persuasive technologist Tristan Harris, has launched the Center for Humane Technology, a group that includes tech CEOs, investors, scholars, and mindfulness advocates....
Design | Events
Nir Eyal on Persuasive vs. Coercive Technology
Nir Eyal’s 2013 book, “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products,” is a study of consumer behavior that grew out of interviews with Silicon Valley firms and psychologists at Stanford University....
Events
Our Reading List on Addictive Technology and Persuasive Design
As venture capitalists and former tech execs speak out about social media addiction, designers are facing ethical questions about their work. Journalism + Design is hosting a discussion about whether...
21st-Century Journalism | Design
Collaborative Problem Solving for Journalists: A Workshop
Journalism + Design believes that design processes can help journalists become more imaginative, experimental, user-focused, and comfortable navigating the unknown. We recently hosted a workshop for reporters and editors on...
21st-Century Journalism | data visualization
Data and the View From Nowhere
The View from Nowhere describes a kind of false objectivity or feigned neutrality in reporting. Journalists have sometimes used the View from Nowhere, a term popularized by NYU journalism professor...
21st-Century Journalism | Wicked Problems
The Crisis in Journalism Is a Wicked Problem
As 2018 gets underway, I have a suggestion: let’s stop looking for a solution to the future of journalism. At first it was: Get online! Teach reporters to code! Build...
J + D News
What We’ll Be Up To in 2018
Since our launch in 2014, the Journalism + Design undergraduate program at The New School has become the second biggest major at the college and the fastest-growing degree at the...
J+D Digest
The ‘Pivot to Video’ Charade, Radio on the Internet: J+D Digest
Journalists and designers tell stories, but we also read, listen, watch, play… So periodically we round up stories that the Journalism + Design team are looking at, listening to, and interacting with....
