Tag Archives: AEJMC

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 →

Posted in Business, Government, Law, Social Media | Tagged ABC, AEJMC, Applicant, Business, corporations, Facebook, Government, Job, Privacy, Social Media, TV, WRIC-TV8 | Leave a comment

Citing blogs without proper attribution

Posted on September 4, 2011 by marcusmessner

My latest journal publication, which just appeared in the summer issue of the Newspaper Research Journal, tracks the source relationship between traditional news media and blogs. In the study, my co-author Bruce Garrison from the University of Miami’s School of … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Journalism, Legacy Media, Politics, Research, Social Media | Tagged AEJMC, Agenda Setting, Attribution, Blogs, Citation, CNN, Election, Fox News, Intermedia, LA Times, New York Times, Newspaper, Social Media, Sources, TV, USA Today, Washington Post | Leave a comment

2011 AEJMC Promising Professor Award

Posted on August 7, 2011 by marcusmessner

Every year, the Mass Communication & Society Division and Graduate Education Interest Group of AEJMC select tenure-track faculty members for their national AEJMC Promising Professor Awards. I am honored to have been chosen for this year’s third place award. Unfortunately, … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, International, Journalism, Teaching | Tagged AEJMC, Business, Campaigns, Challenge, Global, Newspaper, Non-profit, Opportunity, Social Media, Strategy, Students, Technology, VCU | 2 Comments

Wikipedia vs. Encyclopedia Britannica

Posted on August 5, 2011 by marcusmessner

Wikipedia poses a great challenge to traditional encyclopedias, which for centuries have set the standards of society’s knowledge with their printed editions. My research partner Marcia W. DiStaso from Penn State and I, therefore, studied the impact of social media … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Public Relations, Research, Social Media | Tagged AEJMC, Agenda Setting, corporations, Encyclopedia Britannica, Fortune 500, framing, Social Media, Wikipedia | 1 Comment

New study: Wikipedia’s use for news reports

Posted on April 5, 2011 by marcusmessner

Journalism Practice has published one of my studies that analyzes how national newspapers in the United States increasingly use Wikipedia as a source in their articles. The study “How US national newspapers frame and use the online encyclopedia in their … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Legacy Media, Research, Social Media | Tagged AEJMC, Agenda Setting, Christian Science Monior, framing, Journalism Practice, LA Times, New York Times, Newspaper, Social Media, Sources, USA Today, VCU, Washington Post, Wikipedia | Leave a comment

Which business models can you still teach young journalists?

Posted on August 27, 2010 by marcusmessner

It’s a paradigm shift that unsettles many longtime editors and reporters. Journalists today need to worry about the business of news. Especially young journalists need to get involved in the new media business strategies or tackle the lack thereof in … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Legacy Media, Social Media, Teaching | Tagged AEJMC, Business, Model, Newspaper, Social Media, Strategy, TV | 1 Comment

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 →