{"122661":{"#nid":"122661","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Digital Media\u2019s Rolfe Awarded $20,000 New Digital Journalist AP-Google Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Rolfe, a first year master\u2019s student in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u0026nbsp;School of Literature, Communication, and Culture Graduate Program in Digital Media, is one of six scholars to receive the Online News Association AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship. \u0026nbsp;Rolfe will receive a $20,000 stipend for the 2012-2013 academic year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new national scholarship program organized by the world\u2019s largest membership of digital journalists, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/journalists.org\/\u0022\u003EOnline News Association\u003C\/a\u003E, targets students whose innovative projects exemplify the new journalist in the digital media age.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u0027s nothing more exciting than seeing these new journalist hybrids emerging from our colleges across the U.S.,\u0022 said Jane McDonnell, ONA Executive Director. \u0022While digital media professionals continue to evolve the game, these students will transform the playing field.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERolfe\u0027s winning thesis proposal will examine how recipients of select Oscar awards express their gratitude. \u0026nbsp;She will work from a public database of transcriptions of televised acceptance speeches from the Academy Awards and analyzing them for patterns. The final product will be an online interactive data visualization that depicts an evolution of Oscar acceptance speeches over the years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When I talk with others about my thesis plans to digitally visualize thanking patterns in the acceptance speeches of Oscar recipients, most are receptive to the concept. But every once in a while someone suggests the focus may be a bit ... vapid,\u201d said Rolfe. \u201cThat\u0027s totally okay. When we think of show business in journalism we think mug shots and tabloids. But it doesn\u0027t have to be that way. I\u0027m interested in harnessing our captivation with celebrity and channeling it - specifically for this project - into a better understanding of our culture\u0027s expression of gratitude, which is as integral to actors receiving an Oscar on one special night of the year as it is to all of us every day of lives.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/journalists.org\/next-gen\/ap-google-scholarship\/2012-recipients\/rebecca-rolfe\/\u0022\u003ERead more\u003C\/a\u003E about Rolfe and watch her proposal video.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Rolfe, a first year master\u2019s student in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts School of Literature, Communication, and Culture Graduate Program in Digital Media, is one of six scholars to receive the Online News Association AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship. \u0026nbsp;Rolfe will receive a $20,000 stipend for the 2012-2013 academic year.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Project will analyze Academy Award acceptance speeches"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2012-04-06 11:35:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:00","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"135651":{"id":"135651","type":"image","title":"Rebecca Rolfe","body":null,"created":"1449178685","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:38:05","changed":"1475894766","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:06","alt":"Rebecca Rolfe","file":{"fid":"194797","name":"rolfe-rebecca-4-300x281.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rolfe-rebecca-4-300x281_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rolfe-rebecca-4-300x281_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":21599,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/rolfe-rebecca-4-300x281_0.jpg?itok=jqHULZxj"}}},"media_ids":["135651"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/journalists.org\/next-gen\/ap-google-scholarship\/2012-recipients\/rebecca-rolfe\/","title":"Online News Association"},{"url":"http:\/\/lcc.gatech.edu\/graduate\/dmms\/","title":"LCC Digital Media Program"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"29621","name":"AP-Google"},{"id":"124","name":"Digital Media"},{"id":"4144","name":"journalism"},{"id":"29611","name":"Rebecca Rolfe"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}