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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
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Emerging Scholar Grant from AEJMC
My research partner Marcia DiStaso and I were recently selected as recipients for this year’s AEJMC Emerging Scholar Grants. We submitted a research proposal “Turning to the Wiki-Doctor” to examine the frequency of use of Wikipedia as a health information … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Public Relations, Research, Social Media
Tagged AEJMC, credibility, doctors, Emerging Scholar Grant, Health, Internet, Internet users, Marcia DiStaso, research, Social Media, Wikipedia
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Meet the iPadJournos: Presentation, publication and grant support
The iPadJournos project is going into the second round this spring semester. Two weeks ago, we launched the new course, which is supported by a Knight News Challenge Bridge Grant from AEJMC that will help to add a collaborative video … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Social Media, Teaching
Tagged AEJMC, CTE, Denver, EDUCAUSE, ELI, grant, iPad, iPadJournos, Jeff Nugent, journal, Knight News Challenge, Mobile, Social Media, Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication, Thomas Grasty
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Wikipedia health information greatly based on academic articles
Our latest study on Wikipedia explored the referencing of nutritional articles on the online encyclopedia. A content analysis of the references of nine nutritional articles over a five-year period showed that they greatly rely on academic publications. The findings of … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Research, Social Media
Tagged AEJMC, Health, Nutrition, References, Social Media, Sources, Wikipedia
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KONY 2012: From perfect viral campaign to social media nightmare
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is hosting a panel on public relations case studies “Tenacious Tweeting, Bellowing Blogging, Fanatical FaceBooking, Yappy YouTubing: Using Industry Cases as Teaching Tools” at its annual conference in Chicago this … Continue reading
Posted in International, Journalism, Public Relations, Social Media, Teaching
Tagged AEJMC, Campaigns, Facebook, Global, Invisible Children, Joseph Kony, Kony 2012, Non-profit, Protest, Social Media, Strategy, Students, Technology, Twitter, Viral Video, YouTube
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Social media supervision on the job
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
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Citing blogs without proper attribution
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
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2011 AEJMC Promising Professor Award
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
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Wikipedia vs. Encyclopedia Britannica
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
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New study: Wikipedia’s use for news reports
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






