Models and theories

Flash journalism presents a sparsely charted tundra of research opportunities for the up-and-coming graduate student. Though tracing a subject's eye movements or blood pressure for clues on how a Web page is received does not hold much appeal for me, plenty of fresh territory exists for exploration in terms of the philosophy, economics, sociology and mechanics of this (relatively) new packaging tool.
The closeted fantasist can devise new and exciting lands to present visitors in search of new or information, even custom-designing certain aspects of the experience to cater to individual predilections.
I love the idea of hard news being packaged into the virtual fantasy worlds of the gamer population bringing us these new technologies.
If we could ever get the Missourian and KOMU to love each other, our multimedia online packages could foster cooperative coverage by Mizzou media and even offer some opportunities to store institutional memory if the Web-based packages could be great perennial containers for the reporting sources/materials collected while covering popular and complex issues, such as ethanol production/economics, water quality, development, etc.
Under-emphasized areas we could expand into include links back to more original documents, sources and databases used in computer-assisted reporting, as well as including My Missourian debriefings by reporters.