Dr Skye Doherty

Lecturer

School of Communication and Arts

Affiliate Lecturer

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

+61 7 334 68260

07 3365 8260

s.doherty@uq.edu.au

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Researcher biography

Skye Doherty is a leader in journalism innovation. Her research explores how technology can be designed to tell public interest stories and to address social issues. Her work has resulted in an award-winning storytelling tool, legislative change, and future-focused design prototypes. She came to academic research after an international career and as a journalist. She is a member of UQ's Human-Centred Computing research group and leads the Design for Social Change theme within the Centre for Communication and Social Change.

Publications

Book (1)

Book Chapter (1)

Journal Articles (6)

Conference Papers (2)

Thesis (1)

Generic Document (1)

Department Technical Report (1)

Creative Works (4)

Book

Doherty, Skye (2018). Journalism Design: Interactive Technologies and the Future of Storytelling. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315168401

Book Chapter

Doherty, Skye and Viller, Stephen (2020). Prototyping interaction: designing technology for communication. Reimagining communication: experience. (pp. 80-96) edited by Michael Filimowicz and Veronika Tzankova. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351015356-5

Journal Articles

Doherty, Skye and Worthy, Peter (2020). Sketching: a method for imagining journalistic tech. Digital Journalism, 1-18. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2020.1764373

Doherty, Skye (2015). NewsCubed: journalism through design. Journalism Practice, 10 (5), 569-588. doi: 10.1080/17512786.2015.1049645

Angus, Daniel and Doherty, Skye (2015). Journalism meets interaction design: an interdisciplinary undergraduate teaching initiative. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 70 (1), 44-57. doi: 10.1177/1077695814563981

Doherty, Skye (2014). Hypertext and journalism: paths for future research. Digital Journalism, 2 (2), 124-139. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2013.821323

Doherty, Skye (2012). Will the geeks inherit the newsroom?: Reflections on why journalists should learn computer science. International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 8 (2), 111-121. doi: 10.18848/1832-3669/cgp/v08i02/56259

Skye Doherty (2011). Playing with the facts. The Walkley Magazine (68), 40-40.

Conference Papers

Doherty, Skye, Snow, Stephen, Jennings, Kathleen, Rose, Ben, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2020). Vim: a tangible energy story. 13th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2020, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 3-6 November 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-62516-0_24

Doherty, Skye and Worthy, Peter (2017). Exploring journalistic values through design: a student perspective. 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, Brisbane, Australia, 28 November-1 December 2017. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3152771.3156140

Thesis

Doherty, Skye (2017). Journalism Design: The NewsCube, Interactive Technologies and Practice. PhD Thesis, School of Information Technol and Elec Engineering, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.402

Generic Document

Doherty, Skye (2015). NewsCube: final report. The Walkley Foundation.

Department Technical Report

Doherty, Skye (2013). Hypertext and news stories. ITEE Technical Report, 2013-03. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland.

Creative Works

Skye Doherty, Ben Rose, Kathleen Jennings, Stephen Snow, Ben Matthews and Stephen Viller (2020). Vim. Brisbane: University of Queensland.

Skye Doherty, Kathleen Jennings, Ben Matthews and Stephen Viller (2019). Physical News Card Deck. Brisbane: University of Queensland.

Doherty, Skye, Worthy, Peter and Lloyd, David (2017). JxD process. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.

Doherty, Skye, Epifani, Andrea, Lloyd, David, Harrison, John and Viller, Stephen (2015). NewsCube. Samford, QLD, Australia: NewsCubed.

Areas of research

Journalism