Announcing: The Sensor Journalism Webinar Series

Sensor Journalism Series hosted by the OKCast and Sensor Journalism Lab

Some exciting news! There’s going to be a webinar series on sensor journalism starting in March 2015. This is a new experiment for us at the OKCast, using a more collaborative, community-building approach to our coverage.

We’ve invited speakers who are practitioners, educators, developers, experimenters, and supporters of sensor journalism to share and discuss their work and participate in a Q&A. We hope to expand on existing research on sensor journalism, as captured by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism’s Sensors & Journalism report, along with best practices, as learned through experience and experiment (e.g. DustDuino, the Open Water Project). Everyone’s invited — including you!

Details and updates here .

All the sessions will be archived and hosted on the OKCast website in an effort to build a working knowledge base for sensor journalism beyond informal discussions and meetings on and offline.

Schedule

(Check back for updates.)

March 8.

March 15.

March 22.

March 29.

Themes & Topics

• Citizen, homebrew, grassroots sensing
• Smart/responsive cities, Internet of Things
• Toward an educational model for sensor journaliss
• Law, ethics, privacy, surveillance
• Drone journalism and aerial mapping
• Mobile sensing
• A Critical Look at Sensor Data

What you can do

1. Attend the webinar – RSVP now! The series starts March 2015(ish).
2. Help share this announcement to tell others this is happening! Use the #sensorjourno15 hashtag on Twitter and tag and on Twitter.
3. Suggest speakers for any of the above listed themes by e-mailing or media partners by emailing . (We’ve already begun reaching out to a few.)
4. Volunteer to host a synchronous live local event around the Unhangouts! Know of a group of friends or colleagues who might want to convene somewhere to stream the Unhangouts? You can host a local live streaming event where you are to tune in. Make sure you let us know if you’re doing this so we can help you coordinate!