Teaching mobile app creation for journalism students: a case study of android AppInventor in Brazil

  • Marcelo Crispim Da Fontoura PUCRS
  • Ana Cecília Bisso Nunes PUCRS
  • Eduardo Campos Pellanda PUCRS
  • André Pase PUCRS
Keywords: Computation, AppInventor, teaching, Journalism Schools, Brazil.

Abstract

Due to the high demand for journalists that understand technology and embrace it as an important skillset in recent years, journalism schools have been adapting their curriculum to include those abilities in their classrooms. In this paper, we offer a case study of one such approach at PUCRS University in Brasil: from 2011 we have been challenging the students to make a journalistic app with Android AppInventor platform in the classroom. This paper addresses this experience and its perception of journalism and media students of PUCRS in Brazil.

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Marcelo Crispim Da Fontoura, PUCRS
Assistant Professor of Digital Journalism at PUCRS. Researcher at Ubilab.
Ana Cecília Bisso Nunes, PUCRS
Journalist, Master in Social Communications from PUCRS. PhD student in the same institution. Professor in the area of innovation in Journalism and Advertising. Coordinator of the Entrepreneurship center Idear. Researcher at Ubilab
Eduardo Campos Pellanda, PUCRS
PhD in Social Communication from PUCRS. Post-doctor by the MIT. Professor at the Post-Graduate program of Social Communication at PUCRS. Director at Ubilab.
André Pase, PUCRS
PhD in Social Communication from PUCRS. Post-doctor by the MIT. Professor at the Post-Graduate program at PUCRS. Researcher at Ubilab
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2017-08-08
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Da Fontoura M. C., Bisso Nunes A. C., Campos Pellanda E. y Pase A. (2017). Teaching mobile app creation for journalism students: a case study of android AppInventor in Brazil. Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements, 14(2), 277-289. https://doi.org/10.5209/TEKN.56068

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