Tag Archives: twitter

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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