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Social media research class offered in Spring 2018
In the spring semester 2018, I am offering a course on social media research at VCU. In the course “MASC 591 – Social Media Research,” I will develop and carry out research projects with graduate and qualified undergraduate students to … Continue reading
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Social media class offerings this fall semester
This fall semester, I will be offering two social media classes at VCU: MASC 496 – Mobile and Social Media Journalism and HONR 398 – Social Media Research. Advance registration starts on March 28.
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Research study published in First Monday
Our research study “Influencing public opinion from corn syrup to obesity: A longitudinal analysis of the references for nutritional entries on Wikipedia” was published this week in the online journal First Monday. The study was written with my colleagues Marcia DiStaso, Yan … Continue reading
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Social media research course offered in spring semester
In the spring semester 2015, I am offering a course on social media research at VCU. In the course “MASC 591 – Social Media Research,” I will develop and carry out research projects with graduate and highly qualified undergraduate students … Continue reading
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Symposium on Mobile and Social Media in Health Communication
Our Center for Media+Health at VCU invites health communication researchers to submit research abstracts for presentations at the 2nd Media + Health Symposium. The theme of this virtual symposium is “Mobile and Social Media in Health Communication” and submissions addressing this topic are … Continue reading
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Ahead in the spring: Classes and talks
This spring semester, I am teaching a new special topics class “Social Media Research,” in which graduate and undergraduate students will develop their own research projects. The deliverable for each of the research teams at the end of the semester … Continue reading
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Tagged Class, Conference, Expert, Google Glass, IPRRC, Journalism Interactive, Maryland, Miami, print, Reporting, research, Social Media, Social Media Professor, VCU, Web
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Joining the Google Glass Explorer Program
Just last week I was selected to join the Google Glass Explorer Program and the glasses already arrived yesterday. I will share my experiences and experiments with this technology on my new blog Glass@VCU. My project is generously supported by … Continue reading
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Tagged experience, Glass@VCU, Google, Google Glass, Mobile, Multimedia, research, Social Media, Social Media Professor, teaching, Technology
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New social media research course offered
I am offering a new class on social media research at VCU this coming spring semester. In the course “MASC 591 – Social Media Research,” I will develop and carry out research projects with graduate and undergraduate students to study the … Continue reading
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Symposium on Media and Health at VCU
Our new Center for Media+Health at VCU’s School of Mass Communications is running its first symposium on Nov. 15. Health and media experts will be speaking at the symposium in the VCU Student Commons. Please visit the website of the … Continue reading
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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
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Tagged Business, iPadJournos, Journalism, Mobile, news, Social Media, Social Media Professor, Twitter, Wall Street
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