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Social media supervision on the job

Posted on March 21, 2012 by marcusmessner

A state government department in Maryland has asked job applicants for their Facebook usernames and passwords. While questions about marital status and family background are generally off limits during job interviews, this trend raises many privacy concerns. At the same … Continue reading →

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Shoveling tweets: Traditional media and their use of Twitter

Posted on April 1, 2011 by marcusmessner

The International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin hosted a research panel on Twitter. I presented a study that I conducted with two of my recent graduate students, Maureen Linke and Asriel Eford, from our Multimedia Journalism Master’s Program at … Continue reading →

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Blog sources have no name

Posted on August 24, 2010 by marcusmessner

At this year’s AEJMC conference in Denver, Bruce Garrison from the University of Miami and I presented a research paper (“Sources without a name”) that tracked the source relationship between traditional news media and blogs. In the study, we applied … Continue reading →

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