A new program sponsored by the Office for Information Technology (OIT) at Williams College is advancing media scholarship on the Williams College campus. The initiative, Integrating Digital Literacies - or IDeaL - allows faculty to enhance current course assignments with media components to allow students to express themselves visually, and to engage with and publish their research in varied digital mediums.
The White House on Friday cited Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for its leadership role in using the Web to promote government transparency. The announcement was made at an event in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the open government Web site, Data.gov.
College students in Alabama are learning to think outside the box by enrolling in subjects ranging from Tweeting to Twilight to Julia Child.
How social networking can help people garner support for weight loss.
Networks permeate modern life, from Facebook to political allegiances. Now University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill mathematicians and colleagues have developed a new technique for examining networks to help identify patterns and see how connections evolve.
Four American University film and media professionals are available to discuss a variety of issues related to creating media that achieves social change.
Crelligence Media is a social media marketing company that specializes in compensated consumer-generated media.
A new study out today (April 21, 2010) from the International Center for Media & the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland, concludes that most college students are not just unwilling, but functionally unable to be without their media links to the world.
Kicking off with an Earth Day presentation, Ithaca College will launch an educational initiative focusing on the topic of “Media for Social Change.”
A study of 100 teen bloggers from around the United States found that the vast majority use blogs to nurture relationships with their peers and build a sense of community -- rather than to admit misbehavior.
Clinic sites in 13 cities across the U.S. are looking for a total of 1,350 HIV-negative gay men to participate in the latest HIV vaccine study from the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN). And they’re using social media to help reach these individuals where they are, which, these days, is increasingly online.
Cyber-criminals are using fake e-mails to target Facebook users and deliver computer viruses that were being detected only by one-third of the 42 most common anti-virus products as of noon Thursday, March 18, says a leading cyber-crime researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
Projects affiliated with American University, other schools produce content for mainstream news media.
The more heterogeneous the community of an online chat channel, the more chances the channel has to survive over time. This has been concluded in a new joint study carried out by researchers of the University of Haifa and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
A new "iSeries" core class at the University of Maryland called "Social Networks: Technology and Society" included a classroom assignment designed to determine how trends go viral on social networking sites. The aim was to gather 10,000 Facebook members in a set amount of time. Did anyone succeed?
PepsiCo’s decision to launch an online campaign rather than advertise during the Super Bowl has generated tremendous interest. “The television as a commercial medium for advertising is a dinosaur,” says Wake Forest University communication professor Ananda Mitra, an expert in social media.
“There is nothing like it in the world for getting attention from consumers and media outlets,” says marketing expert Scott Hamula of the upcoming Super Bowl XLIV, which will be televised by CBS on Sunday, Feb. 7. Consequently, despite the continued difficulties in the economy, plenty of corporations will be shelling out big money to produce and air Super Bowl commercials.
Social media is not just for the school-age set or lost-lost classmates. Small businesses can tap into a variety of options, according to Jennifer Regina, an adjunct professor of marketing at Rowan University, Glassboro, N.J.
Government financial support that has bolstered this country's commercial news business since its colonial days is in sharp decline and is likely to fall further, according to a report released today by the University of Southern California’s Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. Because these cutbacks are occurring at the height of the digital revolution, they will have an especially powerful impact on a weakened news industry.
Though parents often have concerns about letting their teens use social media Web sites like Facebook and MySpace, a new study suggests that well-adapted youth with positive friendships will use these sites to further enhance the positive relationships they already have. However, teens who have behavioral problems and difficulty making friends, may be more inclined to use social media in negative and sometimes aggressive ways.
Social media has been used extensively in several high profile missing person cases, and Washington and Lee University journalism professor Claudette Artwick says these may show a digital divide.
How much sleep college students get each night is not affected by how much time they spend using Facebook and other social media, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire.
Parents worried that their college students are spending too much time on Facebook and other social networking sites and not enough time hitting the books can breathe a sigh of relief. New research from the University of New Hampshire finds that students who heavily engage in social networking do just as well academically as students who are less interested in keeping in touch with the medium.
A national competition aimed at quickly locating 10 red weather balloons tethered at locations across the United States has netted a second-place finish for a Georgia Tech team – along with a set of new insights into the use of social networks for gathering information.
Nominations for the 2009 Izzy Award are officially open. The annual award for special achievement in independent media — named after legendary muckraker I. F. “Izzy” Stone — is a project of Ithaca College's Park Center for Independent Media. Last year’s inaugural award was shared by blogger Glenn Greenwald and “Democracy Now!” host/executive producer Amy Goodman.
Thanks to the Internet and online social networks (OSNs) news and gossip now spread literally like wildfire — uncontrollably and seemingly without any order. But according to one Ryerson researcher, there is method to the madness. With the right mathematical model, you could spot when and where a story starts, then watch as it skips across the Internet. One day, similar models could even detect and track terrorist cells within OSNs.
NIST now has a fan page on the popular social networking site, Facebook, and the microblogging service Twitter.
Online social networks such as Facebook are being used to express and communicate real personality, instead of an idealized virtual identity, according to new research from psychologist Sam Gosling at The University of Texas at Austin.
The Facebook term “unfriend” was recently picked as 2009 Word of the Year by the New Oxford American Dictionary. Ananda Mitra, professor and chair of the Department of Communication, discusses how technology influences language and social interaction.
Why do some online ad campaigns go viral while other online marketing messages gather “cyber-dust” on the information superhighway? The key may lie in the motivation of Internet users to email that content to their social network, say researchers from Ryerson University and Simon Fraser University.
"Reaching out, not building walls" is an apt description of the core competitive strategy of firms in the social networking services industry, as new research by Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business professors shows.
The National Institutes of Health have awarded the University of Florida – with Cornell University Library and Indiana University as major partners – a two-year, $12.2 million grant to bolster a national, Facebook-like, professional social network that enables scientists to find new biomedical research and partnerships. The new network will be called VIVOweb.
Eight best practices to help public broadcasting remain among most trusted U.S. news sources.
Mayo Clinic is announcing the launch of Medical Edge Weekend, a weekly one-hour radio program that offers listeners in-depth information and discussions of important medical topics with Mayo Clinic specialists, including the opportunity to interact via social media tools such as Twitter.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Sociology and Social Work will use a five-year, $1.9 million National Institute on Aging grant to study the ability of computer use and social media networking to enhance the quality of life of elderly adults through online social connections and easier access to health information.
The Arab world is watching television, and a lot of it. In fact, western ideas are starting to transform Arab culture at a pace that might be too fast, according to a researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
A new study by University of Maryland researchers finds a growing use of Twitter among members of Congress - but found they are using the social media platform mostly to promote themselves, rather than engage in dialogue with constituents and the public at large.
A new report issued by American University’s Center for Social Media finds that documentary filmmakers routinely grapple with ethics challenges, yet the craft lacks any sort of broad standards in ethics practices.
The Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire has been awarded more than $1.8 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Justice to combat Internet and other crimes against children.
Alex Gandsas, M.D., Division Head, Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, will perform a sleeve gastrectomy, which will be twittered live. The patient is a 49 year old male with a history of hypertension and sleep apnea. The patient's body mass index is 57, and he currently weighs 362 lbs. His ideal weight is 159 lbs.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) is harnessing the power of wireless technologies and online communities to help nurses throughout the world "connect for health."
Publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) today announced the launch of www.5minutemd.com, a new online community for family medicine practitioners. LWW is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy.
To further its mission to engage members and grow its global presence, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) has joined three social networking sites. TMS is now reaching out to the worldwide materials science and engineering communities through its society pages on LinkedIn, a professional network site; Flickr, a photo-sharing site; and the all-encompassing Facebook social network.
Prof. Mike Olmert (English) takes a small group of Maryland students to London for what may be one of the most intensive study abroad experiences out there. This year, he's got the students blogging about their experiences. It's obvious they are learning lots of things on this trip!
A conference hosted by The George Washington University's Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communications, "Face-off to Facebook: From the Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen Debate to Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century," will mark the 50th anniversary of the debate and examine new opportunities for U.S. global outreach in a Web 2.0 world.
Journalists from around the world will spend a week at Ithaca College learning how to use multimedia and alternative resources for gathering and disseminating news in their respective countries. Among those participating are journalists from Ukraine, Georgia, Venezuela, Kenya, Malaysia, India, Nigeria, and South Africa.
A University of California, San Diego professor has emerged as a leading scholarly authority on voter sentiment and new media in Iran in the wake of the June 12 election in which Iran's official news agency announced that incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won about two-thirds of the votes cast.
Users of the popular networking site Twitter could be the unwitting participants in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) computer attacks that are rendering Iranian government Web sites inaccessible to users, said Gary Warner, Director of Research in Computer Forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Warner said U.S. law punishes participants in DDOS attacks with up to one year in prison and fines that can range into the thousands of dollars.
Twitter performance of the "Wandering Rocks" chapter from James Joyce's Ulysses on Bloomsday, June 16.
With Facebook offering vanity URLs for the first time tomorrow, social media expert Susan Jacobson, of Temple University's journalism department, advises organizations as well as celebrities and politicians to claim their URLs early to avoid having to battle later with a cybersquatter.
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