Dr Skye Doherty
Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
Global Change Scholars Prgrm Coord.
Graduate School
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+61 7 334 68260
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
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, Johnston, Jane and Matthews, Ben (2022). Materialising new forms of journalism: a process model. Digital Journalism, 1-15. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2022.2087097
Matthews, Ben, Doherty, Skye, Johnston, Jane and Foth, Marcus (2022). The publics of design: challenges for design research and practice. Design Studies, 80 101106, 101106. doi: 10.1016/j.destud.2022.101106
Matthews, Ben, Doherty, Skye, Worthy, Peter and Reid, Janine (2022). Design thinking, wicked problems and institutioning change: a case study. CoDesign, 1-17. doi: 10.1080/15710882.2022.2034885
Doherty, Skye and Worthy, Peter (2020). Sketching: a method for imagining journalistic tech. Digital Journalism, 10 (2), 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
Doherty, Skye , Rose, Ben , Jennings, Kathleen, Snow, Stephen , Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2020). Vim. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.
Skye Doherty, Kathleen Jennings, Ben Matthews and Stephen Viller (2019). Physical News Card Deck. Brisbane, Australia: 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.