-
Tags
AEJMC Agenda Setting Audience Blogs Business Campaigns CBS 6 Class CNN corporations Democracy Egypt Election Facebook Fortune 500 framing Germany Global Google Government iPad iPadJournos Iraq IYLEP Mobile Newspaper New York Times Non-profit Obama President Protest research Social Media Social Media Professor Sources Strategy Students Technology Tumblr TV Twitter VCU Washington Post Wikipedia YouTube-
Recent Posts
- iPadJournos presentation at Journalism Interactive Conference
- Social media campaigns. Real clients. This summer @ VCU.
- Social media and the Olympics
- Ahead in the spring: Classes and talks
- NPR interview on Chris Christie presser
- Joining the Google Glass Explorer Program
- New social media research course offered
- iPadJournos cover gubernatorial race in Virginia
- #VCUvotes and #UncleRam turn out vote at VCU
- Symposium on Media and Health at VCU
- Twitter as a political tool
- Presentations at the Future of Journalism Conference
- Commonwealth Times covers IYLEP Social Media Institute
- Presentations at AEJMC Conference
- “Wikipedia versus Encyclopedia Britannica” study published
- Social media outrage over George Zimmerman’s acquittal
- iPadJournos project covered by Richmond Magazine
- Study published on Twitter engagement of health nonprofits
- Is Facebook losing its coolness?
- Interviews on social media and politics
Archives
Categories
-
Category Archives: Business
Presentations at the Future of Journalism Conference
I am attending the Future of Journalism Conference in Cardiff (Wales) this week to present a research study I conducted with Vivian Medina Messner that compares the Twitter engagement of business news organizations and their journalists as well as business … Continue reading
Posted in Business, International, Journalism, Research, Social Media, Teaching
Tagged Business, iPadJournos, Journalism, Mobile, news, Social Media, Social Media Professor, Twitter, Wall Street
Leave a comment
“Wikipedia versus Encyclopedia Britannica” study published
The study “Wikipedia versus Encyclopedia Britannica: A Longitudinal Analysis to Identify the Impact of Social Media on the Standards of Knowledge,” which I wrote with my research partner Marcia W. DiStaso, was published in the latest edition of Mass Communication … Continue reading
Is Facebook losing its coolness?
The hip start-up days are long gone for Facebook, which is now publicly traded, profit driven and one of the leading Internet companies in the world. “Facebook is getting old” titled the Daily Dot yesterday on its story on the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Social Media
Tagged Business, competition, cool, Daily Dot, Facebook, hip, Internet, popular, Reddit, Social Media, Tumblr
Leave a comment
Yahoo + Tumblr = ?
Internet pioneer Yahoo is taking over the popular microblogging site Tumblr and is paying a staggering $1.1 billion for the acquisition. The deal combines two struggling companies. Yahoo! has long lost its innovative streak and Tumblr needs a successful revenue … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Social Media
Tagged billion, deal, Internet, microblogging, pioneer, Social Media, Takeover, Tumblr, uncool, Users, Yahoo
Leave a comment
Twitter and business journalists
Vivian Medina-Messner presented our latest Twitter study at the AEJMC Midwinter Conference at the University of Oklahoma last weekend. The study “Tweet-Biz: How leading business journalists engage on Twitter” analyzed the Twitter engagement of business journalists in the United States.
Posted in Business, Journalism, Research, Social Media
Tagged AEJMC, Business, Conference, Engagement, Journalism, Journalists, Midwinter Conference, Oklahoma, Reporters, research, Twitter
Leave a comment
With #my2k against the fiscal cliff
President Barack Obama has asked his supporters to use the new “#my2k” hashtag on Twitter to weigh in on the negotiations on the fiscal cliff. In hope to put extra pressure on Republicans in the negotiations, the social media campaign … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Politics, Social Media
Tagged #my2k, Business, Campaigns, Fiscal Cliff, Government, Obama, President, Republicans, Reuters, Social Media, Taxes, Twitter
Leave a comment
Tweets from Wall Street
My latest study with Vivian Medina-Messner examines the Twitter adoption and use of leading business media, such as the Wall Street Journal, CNBC and the Economist. We analyzed the Twitter accounts of leading business news organizations, split up by newspapers, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Journalism, Research
Tagged Bloomberg, Business, Businessweek, CNBC, Economist, Financial Times, Fortune, Fox Business, Magazines, New York Times, Newspaper, Social Media, TV, Twitter, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal
Leave a comment
