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Digital health communication trends and Wikipedia research presentations at IPRRC
At this week’s International Public Relations Research Conference in Miami, I presented two new research studies that explored trends in digital health communication research as well as referencing and framing patterns in Wikipedia articles on the banking industry. The study … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Health, Public Relations, Research, Social Media
Tagged Agenda Setting, Banks, Business, corporations, Financial Sector, Fortune 500, framing, Google, Health communication, Meta-study, References, Social Media, Sources, VCU, Wikipedia
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Social media driving business sales
As millions of Internet users flock to Facebook and Twitter, more and more businesses are including social media in their marketing and sales strategies. I was interviewed by Arkansas Business Journal reporter Mark Friedman for a story that explores the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Public Relations, Social Media
Tagged Agenda Setting, Arkansas, Audience, Business, corporations, Facebook, Marketing, Sales, Social Media, Strategy, Technology, Twitter
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Social media as sources for newspapers
The New York Times and the Washington Post have increasingly used social media platforms like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter as sources for their news reporting. My VCU colleague Tim Bajkiewicz will present the results of our study “Facebook, MySpace and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, International, Journalism, Legacy Media, Research, Social Media
Tagged Agenda Setting, Business, Facebook, Network, New York Times, Newspaper, Phenomenon, Platform, Social Media, Sources, Twitter, VCU, Washington Post
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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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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
Internet Consumption: Approaches, Theories, Methods
How do scholars around the world study Internet consumption of today’s youth? This question was at the onset of an academic conference at the Center for Public Opinion Research at Shanghai International Studies University in China. A variety of the … Continue reading
Posted in International, Research, Social Media
Tagged Agenda Setting, Blogs, China, Social Media, Technology, VCU, Youth
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Newspapers legitimize Wikipedia
National newspapers in the United States increasingly use Wikipedia as a source in their articles. A new study, which will be published in a forthcoming issue of Journalism Practice, found that despite the perceived skepticism among journalists the online encyclopedia … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Legacy Media, Research, Social Media
Tagged Agenda Setting, Christian Scien, framing, LA Times, New York Times, Newspaper, Social Media, Sources, USA Today, Washington Post, Wikipedia
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The sources of the political blogosphere
There are fundamental differences in how traditional news media bloggers and unaffiliated bloggers (you might call them the original bloggers) operate. In a recent study on the sourcing of political blogs in the United States, I found that newspapers use … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Journalism, Legacy Media, Politics, Research
Tagged Agenda Setting, Blogs, Election, Newspaper, President, Sources
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Watch your wiki!
Just admit it: You are using Wikipedia. We all are. Today, it’s the sixth most popular website in the world and its reliability has tremendously increased over the last few years. I have long ago stopped to tell my students … Continue reading
Posted in Public Relations, Research, Social Media
Tagged Agenda Setting, corporations, Fortune 500, Social Media, Wikipedia
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