Tag Archives: AEJMC

Twitter and business journalists

Posted on March 5, 2013 by marcusmessner

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

Emerging Scholar Grant from AEJMC

Posted on February 3, 2013 by marcusmessner

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 | Leave a comment

Meet the iPadJournos: Presentation, publication and grant support

Posted on January 29, 2013 by marcusmessner

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 | Leave a comment

Wikipedia health information greatly based on academic articles

Posted on August 13, 2012 by marcusmessner

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 | Leave a comment

KONY 2012: From perfect viral campaign to social media nightmare

Posted on August 5, 2012 by marcusmessner

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 | Leave a comment

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 →