Feature Channels: Media and Journalism

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Two new studies from the University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Center suggest that concerns about teen sexting may be overblown. One study found the percentage of youth who send nude pictures of themselves that would qualify as child pornography is very low. The other found that when teen sexting images do come to police attention, few youth are being arrested or treated like sex offenders.

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University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers find that communication using instant messaging and e-mail increases lying compared to face-to-face talk, and e-mail messages are most likely to contain lies. The findings are published in the October issue of the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

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With the holiday season fast approaching, Natalie Wood, Ph.D., assistant director of Saint Joseph’s University’s Center for Consumer Research, offers the following strategies for how marketers can be better prepared and leverage the power of social media to strengthen their existing marketing campaign. With the right social media strategy, Wood says marketers can maximize brand exposure at very little cost.

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Although the average Facebook user has some 130 "friends," in reality, Americans have, on average, slightly more than two confidantes, finds a new Cornell University study.

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In 2008, physicians at Mayo Clinic Florida led by Herbert Wolfsen, M.D., were looking for new ways to keep in touch with the large group of esophageal cancer patients cared for by him and other gastroenterologists and surgeons. Telephone calls, faxes and email had worked to create a network of patients but many now wanted interactive and remote access capability to share their experiences and challenges with this serious disease.

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Connecting the elderly to friends and family online reduces depression, a UAB professor discovers.

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A content analysis of local TV news finds agreements between stations mean less original content and possible monopoly violations. The report was filed with FCC; its author,a professor at the University of Delaware, says the FCC needs to consider these agreements' effects. The FCC is set to make decisions in 2011 about media ownership, during its quadrennial review. However, none of the studies the FCC commissioned for the review examine these agreements.

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Today the citizens of Liberia will participate in just their second presidential election since the country emerged from a brutal civil war in 2003, and in such an environment the specter of violence or other unrest is never far away. But what if social media, a Georgia Tech professor is asking, could identify and even help prevent dangerous situations from occurring?

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Cornell University Computer and Information Science Professor Jeff Hancock talks about the social media, law enforcement and broader implications of his new research into computerized text analysis and the minds of psychopathic murderers in NYC on Oct. 17.

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Teens bully each other through text messages, Facebook and videos because they don’t see the immediate consequences, says Brandie Oliver, Butler University faculty in school counseling.

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Social media websites, such as Facebook and MySpace, may reveal information that could identify underage college students who may be at risk for problem drinking, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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Your Friday night status update from a local pub will have much greater significance with the unveiling of Facebook Timeline, says Dr. Ananda Mitra, social media expert and Chair of the Communication Department at Wake Forest University.

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It is a commonly held that information on Wikipedia should not be trusted, since it is written and edited by non-experts without professional oversight. But researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have found differently, according to a study published online Sept. 1 in the Journal of Oncology Practice.

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A week of health care social media learning and networking activities hosted by the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media will culminate in the center’s first Social Media Residency, Oct. 20–21, 2011 in Rochester.

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Audi took the top rank in the second-annual Prestige 100®: China IQ, which measures the digital footprint of 100 prestige brands in China, the world’s fastest-growing luxury market.

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After analyzing more than 3 million tweets, gigabytes of YouTube content and thousands of blog posts, a new study finds that social media played a central role in shaping political debates in the Arab Spring.

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A new study from the University of Iowa suggests that social media users with small numbers of more talkative friends might be more influential with their online network of acquaintances than users with a larger network.

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Information Scientists at received an NSF grant to investigate how social media can influence group actions. The study will develop experimental tools to examine the factors that govern the success and failure of cyber-collective movements.

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Dr. Cindy Shen, social media expert and assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, published an article exploring the dynamics of online communities.

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Make headway, Max Headroom! Meant to be Cornell classroom demonstration, a robot avatar conversation quickly turned into the spat chat heard around the world.