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From: Don Begley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: September 29, 2008 5:15:16 PM MDT
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Subject: sfx News: Making Sense of Campaign08 (CORRECTED)
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Three Tuesdays to Make Sense of Campaign 08:
What Are They
Really Saying?
The first presidential debate is over and the vice presidential debate
is coming. Congressional ads fill the airwaves with claims and
counterclaims. What's a voter to do?
Come to this three-part workshop at Santa Fe Complex to learn how to
look beyond the scripts and see what is really going on this this
fall's campaigns. A suggested donation of $20.00 for each evening (or
$45 for all three sessions) will help defray the costs. All
contributions go to Santa Fe Complex. Light refreshments will be
available.
Sessions include:
The Daily Tip Sheet (9/30)
Swimming Against the Flow (10/7)
The Payoff (10/16)
All sessions begin at 6:30.
Journalist & Professor Tom Johnson to Host Three-Part Workshop on
Decoding the Political Races
Over the course of three Tuesdays, beginning September 30, journalist
and professor Tom Johnson will show how investigative reporters tap
into the Internet to see what is really going on in political
campaigns. There will be homework assignments and participants will
contribute to the Three Tuesdays wiki so their discoveries will be
available to the general public.
Over the course of three Tuesdays, beginning tomorrow, September 30,
Johnson will show workshop participants how to do the online research
needed to understand what's happening in the fall political campaign.
There will be homework assignments and participants will contribute to
the Three Tuesdays wiki so their discoveries will be available to the
general public.
Everyone is welcome but space will be limited. A suggested donation of
$45 covers all three events or $20 will help produce each session.
Click here> to sign up.
The Daily Tip Sheet (September 30, 6:30 pm)
Newspapers are a 'morning line' tip sheet. There's isn't enough room
for what you need to know.
Newspapers can be a good jumping-off point for political knowledge,
but they rarely have enough staff, staff time and space to really
drill down into a topic. Ergo, it is increasingly up to citizens to do
the research to preserve democracy and help inform voters. Tonight we
will be introduced to some of the city, state and national web sites
to help in our reporting and to a few digital tools to help you save
and retrieve what you find.
Swimming Against the Flow (October 7, 6:30 pm):
How to track data to their upstream sources.
A web page and its data are not static events. (Well, usually they are
not.) Web pages and digital data all carry "signs" of where they came
from, who owns the site(s) and sometimes who links to the sites. We
will discuss how investigators can use these attributes to our
advantage, and also take a step back to consider the "architecture of
sophisticated web searching."
The Payoff (October 14, 6:30 pm)
Yup, it IS about following the money. But then what?
Every election season, new web sites come along that make it easier to
follow the money -- election money. This final workshop looks at some
of those sites and focuses on how to get their data into a
spreadsheet. Then what? A short intro to slicing-and-dicing the
numbers. (Even if you are a spreadsheet maven, please come and act as
a coach.)
This workshop is NOT a sit-and-take-it-in event. We're looking for
folks who want to do some beginning hands-on ("On-line hands-on", that
is) investigation of New Mexico politics. And that means homework
assignments and contributing to our Three Tuesdays wiki. Participants
are also encouraged to bring a laptop if you can. Click here to sign up.
Tom Johnson's 30-year career path in journalism is one that regularly
moved from the classroom to the newsroom and back. He worked for TIME
magazine in El Salvador in the mid-80s, was the founding editor of
MacWEEK, and a deputy editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His areas
of interest are analytic journalism, dynamic simulation models of
publishing systems, complexity theory, the application of Geographic
Information Systems in journalism and the impact of the digital
revolution on journalism and journalism education. He is the founder
and co-director of the Institute for Analytic Journalism and a member
of the Advisory Board of Santa Fe Complex.
Santa Fe Complex is located in the Railyard Art District within
walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the plaza
downtown. We're housed in two facilities, the project space at 624
Agua Fria and the work space at 632 Agua Fria.
The conference area contains meeting rooms and facilities for short-
term use associated with on-going sfComplex projects. The project
space houses the great room, where we hold events and offer Internet
access, working facilities, a coffee lounge and work carrels for
laptop users.
While there is parking at 624 Agua Fria, the Romero Street parking lot
is more conveniently located for the 632 facility. Romero St. is an
old-style Santa Fe ox-cart road just east of the 624 driveway. Follow
it until it opens up to two lanes and turn hard right into the parking
lot for 632.
Here's a map to our location. For more information, call Don Begley at
505/216.7562.
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