Rice Cooker

The Rice Cooker is the Journalism and Media Studies Centre‘s new research blog. Every story ever told and re-told has had a media to carry it, whether it be the waves, paper or something else. The Internet, notably through the Web, has brought forth a revolution in the world of communications. It is an understatement to say that those billions of computers or devices, connected together with fiber optics, copper wires or mobile networks, have changed our perception of information.

What’s the Rice Cooker then? It is a blog that talks about computer-assisted reporting, database journalism or computational journalism, whatchamacallit. It is also a blog where we will post about ongoing tech-oriented projects at the JMSC, and provide how-tos in the hope that you can to reproduce our methods or help us improve them. We would like it to abide to the spirit of DIY and open collaboration.

At the JMSC, we’re interested in studying the effects of technology on society, but also in presenting and trying out the novel uses and remixes of technology. We are observers, participants and experimenters.

Of course, those are nice concepts, and like always, the blog will be what it will turn out to be as we contribute more material to it. We hope that you will stumble upon this website in droves, looking perhaps for a method to process your newly-acquired piece of data or maybe for your next place to do study technology in the context of media and journalism in the Greater China region.