Tag Archives: twitter

Are phone apps ancillary markets for movies?

Posted on September 18, 2012 by admin

I would think so.  Questions on Twitter today from students using Mass Communication: Living in a Media World:

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Link Ch.6 – How VTech’s Collegiate Times covered the 2011 shooting on campus

Posted on February 21, 2012 by admin

The student journalists at Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Times had the best coverage in the country during December 8, 2011′s shooting deaths of two people on the VTech campus.  Here are two blog posts I wrote as their reporting was unfolding: … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on December 15, 2011 by admin

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

Posted on December 8, 2011 by admin

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

Posted on September 13, 2011 by admin

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

Posted on August 25, 2011 by admin

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

Posted on August 25, 2011 by admin

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?

Posted on February 11, 2011 by admin

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

Posted on January 13, 2011 by admin

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

Posted on January 12, 2011 by admin

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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