Tag Archives: Fox News

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 →

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Social media and personal campaigns

Posted on June 9, 2011 by marcusmessner

Social media like Facebook and Twitter are increasingly used for personal campaigns online. The Associates Press reports on a mother in North Carolina who built a following on social networking to challenge a court ruling that gave her estranged husband … 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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