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Over the last few years, the journalism community has discussed mindset, skillset, journalist-programmers, and other ideas aimed not just at "saving journalism," but making journalism better. Perhaps now it's time to discuss how we think about journalism.Greg Linch, the news innovation manager at Publish2, has been spreading an idea he calls "Rethinking Our Thinking." The core of this idea is that journalists should explore other disciplines for concepts that they can use to do better journalism. Linch begins this process by reading and writing about "computational thinking." He asks, "What from the field of computation can we use to do better journalism?"Jeannette Wing, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, described computational thinking in the 2006 article that sparked Linch's interest: "Computational thinking involves solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior, by drawing on the concepts fundamental to computer science. Computational thinking includes a range of mental tools that reflect the breadth of the field of computer science."The three major areas that Wing outlines are automation, algorithms and abstraction. via poynter.org Posted via email from anthrotechnologist's posterous