Interchange Project

In other words, usability is an important part of the things we cover in our weekly podcasts. Is it accessible to people in a way that lets them do something with it? Your hosts are immersed in these types of questions and discussions.

Beyond our weekly show, this site features blog posts and links to interesting news articles, studies, and blog posts from around the Web. These posts are meant to supplement the podcast, and many of them will become show topics and discussed on our weekly podcast. We use these written posts to get our minds thinking about these topics more in-depth, and based on the reaction that they get and the discussions that follow, we decide whether or not we should talk about them on the show.

Your hosts:

Patrick Thornton does a mixture of journalism, blogging, social media and Web work in his professional life. He’s a Human-Computer Interaction graduate student at the University of Maryland-College Park. He manages social media for Society for Science & the Public, the parent organization of Science News and Science News for Kids. Besides running social media for SSP, SN and SNK, he also manages the day-to-day presence of sciencenewsforkids.org and works on making the site better and more usable for users. He ran NYU’s BeatBlogging.Org project, which studied how journalists used social media and other Web tools. Find him on Twitter via @pwthornton.

Jeremy Littau is an assistant professor of journalism and communication at Lehigh University and also has 10 years of experience as a working journalist. At Lehigh he teaches courses in multimedia, social media, and a Media & Society course devoted to the social uses and consequences of a mediated world. His research focuses on digital media with an emphasis on social media and civic participation. Find him on Twitter via @jeremylittau.