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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Are aggressive kids more likely to play violent video games? Study says not so much. Some interesting findings. Is it really a World Wide Web? Well, 25 percent of Europeans have yet to be online. Here’s a link to the … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 2, Chapter 5, Uncategorized
Tagged advertising, ipad, magazines, questions, twitter
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Virginia Tech Shooting Drives News to Social Media
When the story broke this afternoon about a shooting that has reportedly left two dead on the Virginia Tech campus, two things happened. People started remembering the horror of the 2007 shooting on the campus that left 33 people dead, … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 12, Chapter 6
Tagged public relations, social media, twitter, Virginia Tech
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Sept. 11, 2001 retrospective
I’ve been tweeting a lot this last week or two about 9/11 coverage. Here’s a collection of items based on those tweets. Newseum Newspaper Front Page Archive The Newseum posts the front pages of newspapers from around the world on … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 14
Tagged 9/11, ethics, newspapers, photography, television, twitter
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More Earthquakes and Twitter
Boing Boing shared a fascinating video up showing the spread of earthquake Tweets on Tuesday. The green dots are tweets about earthquakes, the gray dots are tweets about other topics. Each frame covers 1 second, and the video covers 12 minutes … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 2, Uncategorized
Tagged social media, twitter
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Link Ch. 2 – Earthquakes, social media, XKCD and science
This week my students in my senior-level mass media and society class have been working at developing experiments to learn about how people use social media. Most of them are trying to measure President Obama’s popularity (or lack thereof), rather … Continue reading
Posted in Book Link, Chapter 10, Chapter 2
Tagged media effects, social media, twitter, XKCD
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Link Ch. 2 – Are you watching this?
If you are not watching Al Jazeera English this Friday, you should be! Also be following the #Egypt and #Jan25 hashtags on Twitter. There is even an “unstalling dictator” tweetmeme going around.
Posted in Chapter 15
Tagged Arab Spring, global media, international news, Muslim media, twitter
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JMC 406 Commentary & Blogging Students Link Here
As I’ve mentioned before, this semester I’m teaching a course in commentary and blogging that includes a good dose of social media. In the comments section for this post you will find links to the blogs and Twitter feeds for … Continue reading
Link Ch. 10 – Some Great Twitter Feeds
In many of my classes, I require my students to use Twitter. While I hope each of them will come up with their own list of people to follow, here are a few that make up a good starting point: … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 6
Tagged bloggers, twitter
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Twitter, Hashtags, and Media News
Welcome back after the holiday break. As many of you know, I’ve been tweeting on media news for the last several months. I’m now tagging the tweets that directly apply to content from my textbook with the hashtag #liamw. (liamw … Continue reading
Twitter for Reporting
As a followup to the Omaha 10/10/10 conference on the future of digital media, my depth reporting class talked a bit about using Twitter as a reporting tool. My first exposure to the idea came from a 2008 On The … Continue reading