Feature Channels: Media and Journalism

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Employers are tripping over legal hurdles as more companies and their workers use social media tools like Twitter and Facebook.

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Professors dissect Twitter feeds to examine commercials’ emotional acceptance.

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The more time adolescent girls spend in front of Facebook, the more their chances of developing a negative body image and various eating disorders, such as anorexia, bulimia and exaggerated dieting. This has been shown in a new study from the University of Haifa.

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Commercials during the Super Bowl may be some of the most watched ads on broadcast T.V., but Olin marketing professors say social media has changed the game. Advertisers need to engage the audience before, during and after the game with strategies that include everything from smartphones to Twitter.

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A Facebook security vulnerability discovered by a pair of doctoral students that allowed malicious websites to uncover a visitor's real name, access private data and post bogus content on their behalf has been repaired, Facebook confirmed.

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During Social Media Week, Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ) issues a reminder that social media is no longer just about being social. It’s a key strategy for any business and especially for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Super Bowl advertisers are increasingly turning to social media to enlarge their audiences.

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For comment on the role of the Internet and social media as it relates to developments in Egypt and Tunisia, please consider Moez Limayem, professor and chair of the information systems department in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas.

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Cornell Computing and Information Science (CIS) announced today that a cross-disciplinary group of ten Cornell University faculty has received $800,000 from Google Inc. to examine how social network phenomena affect large-scale information systems and how such systems can be transformed to provide more meaningful experiences for on-line users.

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In a recent survey of pharmacy professors, 100 percent of the respondents who had Facebook profiles said they would not send friend requests to their current students.

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A Washington and Lee University journalism professor who studies the impact of social media points to the Arizona shooting as illustrative of a change in the way breaking news is reported.

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Tweets from popular news organizations have a major influence on hot Twitter topics, but a Northwestern University analysis of the Top Twitter Trends in 2010 shows that celebrities, such as Adam Lambert and Conan O’Brian, sometimes beat out news organizations and reigned as Twitter’s top influencers on big news stories.

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USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future Survey reports: Parents are starting to view time spent on the Internet in the same way as time watching TV.

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By now you’ve received some holiday letters in the mail, or you’re frantically trying to finish writing and sending your own annual missive to friends and family. North Dakota State University Professor Ann Burnett, who is studying approximately 1,200 such letters from the past decade, says the letters provide clues to interpersonal dynamics, as well as to current events.

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Comparing the locations of photos posted on the Internet with social network contacts, Cornell University computer scientists have found that as few as three “co-locations” for images at different times and places could predict with high probability that two people posting photos were socially connected.

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Playing online can mean more than killing time, thanks to a new game developed by a team of bioinformaticians at McGill University. Now, players can contribute in a fun way to genetic research.

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To help young people prepare to sort through the overwhelming flood of information that will soon pour forth from the media about the 2012 presidential campaign, a media literacy initiative at Ithaca College has published an update to its popular curriculum kit for teachers.

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Two professors at the University of South Carolina are using Twitter as a tool in teaching foreign languages.

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University of Texas at Austin study reveals gender split, ubiquity of use among Facebook's faithful; College students and graduates are expanding their online social circles and engaging frequently on the social network.

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A marketing instructor and consultant outlines the value of Facebook to individuals and businesses.

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The USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism announced today the launch of a social and technological innovation lab that will develop projects with both a real-world application and a societal impact. Corporate partners have signed on to support the development of innovations from concept to implementation.

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Now that the holiday season is almost here, social media can be a key strategy in the holiday shopper’s gift-buying arsenal. Ryerson University Digital Media Zone tech expert explains...

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OpenStudy is a social media site hooks up students from all across the globe, making the entire world a study group.

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A new supercomputer rating system will be released at Supercomputing Conference 2010 on Nov. 17 by an international team led by Sandia National Laboratories. The rating system, Graph500, tests supercomputer ability to analyze large, graph-based structures that link the huge number of data points present in biological, social and security problems. The intent is to influence computer makers to build computers with the architecture to deal with these increasingly complex problems.

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Using a social networking platform such as Twitter as a tool in university courses can increase student engagement and boost grades. That’s the conclusion of a study involving university students published Nov. 12, 2010, in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.

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An industry leader with over 25 years of experience in the startup, management and growth of successful media companies will assist the Roy H. Park School of Communications in establishing and maintaining key relationships.

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Truthy.indiana.edu, the website created by researchers at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Informatics and Computing to root out Twitter-based political astroturfing campaigns, is finding success.

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Two elite blogs often post the most interesting political videos that are then picked up by top general-interest blogs.

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While many of their peers will spend hours memorizing and theorizing, students taking a social media class at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, will use their time to build and implement social media strategies for growing, socially conscious organizations.

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Newsgames: Journalism at Play, the latest book by Ian Bogost examines the use and potential of video games to inform the public and bring context to the news.

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The gift will be announced today during the inauguration of the University of Southern California’s11th president C. L. Max Nikias. The funds will be used to support a new state-of-the-art building on the USC University Park campus.

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People who believe false rumors about the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero in New York City not only are more likely to oppose that project – they are more likely to oppose building of a mosque in their own neighborhood.

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Astroturfers, Twitter-bombers and smear campaigners need beware this election season as a group of leading Indiana University information and computer scientists today unleashed Truthy.indiana.edu.

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By using social networks such as Twitter, researchers can more quickly and inexpensively determine trends in spread of contagious diseases such as influenza.

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A study examining Americans’ interest in the rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim shows that the mainstream media – particularly television – still influences the topics that engage the public.

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Within the last decade, the genre of food writing has become an American obsession. A new food writing course at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia inspires students to develop a new food consciousness and to grow as writers as they discover the plate on many levels -- not just as cuisine, but as a series of interconnected stories between food producers, politicians, flavorists, chefs, writers, diners, pilots and even truckers.

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Professors and a Ph.D. student from UALR --the University of Arkansas at Little Rock -- developed a new model to manage the "vast ocean" of data being generated by users of growing social websites. The model allows Internet sites to automatically adjust privacy needs of consumers or organizations to the context in which the data is accessed.

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Online presence may hold the key to November elections.

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Each day, we exchange a mess of content through Facebook, Twitter, blogs, discussion boards and other online forums. How are companies and other organizations using our data? Rohini Srihari understands complicated concerns it raises.

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A new book by a University of Illinois at Chicago communication scholar examines how democracies are evolving in the Internet era.

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The annual study of the impact of the Internet on Americans by the Center for the Digital Future found that 49 percent of Internet users said they have used free micro-blogs such as Twitter. But when asked if they would be willing to pay for Twitter, zero percent said yes.

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An Indiana University professor's new book looks at how people today are using new media to break up with each other and how mediums designed to create connections creates all sorts of problems for those trying to disconnect.

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ICSI researchers show how information about where videos and photos were captured can be quickly extracted, leaving those who post images online vulnerable to attacks in the real world.

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Teachers have been too slow to incorporate social media — which can be an attention-grabbing and effective teaching method — into their courses, according to research by an assistant professor of journalism and media arts at Baylor University.

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Communicating across cultures may seem to be easier than ever in an age of online social networks. But making the most of digital social networking tools -- for success in both personal and professional endeavors -- encompasses much more than just updating your status on Facebook or tweeting what you had for breakfast on Twitter.

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Book addresses and dismantles prominent media-driven myths.

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In reviewing volumes of 18th and 19th century diaries, Cornell University Communication professor Lee Humphreys found many terse records about daily life – and many in a style similar to Twitter. Diary entries ranged from dinner menus to reports of deaths, births, marriages and travel.

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For decades, The New York Times has been one of the nation's premier outlets for stories about science. Now, a retired Indiana University journalism professor has put many of those stories together in a unique collection aimed at students of science writing.

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What’s evolving, says researcher, is a multi-dimensional way of communicating.

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Facebook may not be your only privacy risk.