Make headway, Max Headroom! Meant to be Cornell classroom demonstration, a robot avatar conversation quickly turned into the spat chat heard around the world.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists launched a new video today on its lifelinepatients YouTube channel that highlights the need for responsible use of pain medication and proper disposal of the drugs.
Women harbor a fat-stigma even though their family and closest friends may not judge them as “fat,” according to findings by Arizona State University social scientists. Those research results, published Aug. 17 in the journal Social Science & Medicine, have scientists questioning the weight of messages from sources outside one’s social networks, especially those in mass media marketing.
Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, will share his experiences as a serial entrepreneur with the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley as the school’s fourth executive fellow. Stone kicked off his appointment to the Haas School with a keynote to incoming full-time Berkeley MBA students at their MBA Orientation today (8/16/11).
A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examined the “Nag Factor,” the tendency of children, who are bombarded with marketers’ messages, to unrelentingly request advertised items. Researchers explored whether and how mothers of young children have experienced this phenomenon and strategies for coping.
Social media present risks and benefits to children but parents who try to secretly monitor their kids’ activities online are wasting their time, according to a presentation at the 119th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.
People who are cyberstalked or harassed online experience higher levels of stress and trauma than people who are stalked or harassed in person, according to a presentation at the American Psychological Association’s 119th Annual Convention.
John Yates of Houston, Tex., combined the timeless with technology to receive a full financial award package from the University of Iowa Tippie MBA program for writing the best application Tweet.
How to use social and digital media to get ahead in school.
Social media tools like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare may be an important key to improving the public health system’s ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, according to a New England Journal of Medicine “Perspective” article from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania to be published this week.
Christine Schelhas-Miller, Cornell University senior lecturer in the College of Human Ecology and author, provides tips for parents with children heading to college.
The results of a study on candidates' use of Twitter in the 2010 midterm elections suggest that Republicans and Tea Party members used the social medium more effectively than their Democratic rivals.
The phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch is starting to make waves in the United States as well, according to a media critic and former commentator for Fox News.
When an emergency happens, many now rely on social media to call for help, stay up to date with the latest news, and share information. Social media tools also can provide the nation’s first responders with ways to share information. Now they have a place to talk about it.
Edward Wasserman, the Knight Professor of Journalism Ethics at Washington and Lee University, is available to discuss the ramifications of the British phone-hacking scandal and the decision by Rupert Murdoch to shut down the British tabloid, News of the World.
The creative use of Twitter and other technology to teach and promote French has earned Dr. Lara Lomicka Anderson knighthood by the French government.
Computer scientists sift 2 billion tweets for information on where people are sick, what ails them, and what they're doing about it.
There's the MBA application essay, and now the application Tweet. The University of Iowa's Tippie MBA full-time program will offer a full scholarship to the applicant who can best explain in 140 characters or less why they should be admitted.
That panicked feeling we get when the family pet goes missing is the same when we misplace our mobile phone, says a Kansas State University marketing professor. Moreover, those feelings of loss and hopelessness without our digital companion are natural.
In a series of videos produced by the American Society of Nephrology, a physician and a social media expert from the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media discuss how physicians, researchers and patients can use current social media tools to benefit their patients, themselves and their organizations.
Students and young adults are highly susceptible to being contacted by internet sex offenders from the very first time a chat session is initiated, according to a study of online social networking patterns published in the July issue of the American Journal of Nursing (AJN). The study, conducted by a research team working under a United States Department of Justice grant, found that more than two-thirds (63.3%) of internet sexual offenders initiate the topic of sex with middle school and high school students during their first chat session, underscoring the significant issue of on-line risky behavior between sexual offenders and their potential victims. AJN, the leading voice of nursing since 1900, is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
Psychologist offers helpful tips for keeping your child safe online.
In this special issue, IEEE Spectrum analyzes the many dimensions and facets--financial, personal, and technological--of the epic battle for the future of the Web.
It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white. If you’re interested in celebrity and entertainment news, you’re more likely to start using Twitter, according to a new Northwestern University study. But, African Americans in general report more interest in celebrity and entertainment news and were found to be more likely than whites to start using Twitter.
Ryerson University professor leads team to establish post-secondary research, mediacast and broadcast network using fibre optics and video-streaming technology.
Using New Media Technologies to Create an Immersive Storytelling Experience
Dr. Marlene Huff shares information and tips for parents on child development and the use of social media.
“This is the beginning of a new day. The importance of the individual voice has been heightened,” says Wake Forest University social media expert and professor of communication Ananda Mitra. It began when Sohaib Athar in Pakistan unwittingly live-tweeted the Bin Laden raid hours prior to the news breaking on social networking sites.
Obtain instant news about vascular health through the Society for Vascular Surgery's social media.
With ubiquitous social media sites like Facebook and Twitter blurring private and professional lines, there is an increasing need for physicians to create a healthy distance between their work and home online identities, two Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center physicians assert.
Study validates new research method with implications in psychology, political science, business.
On March 19, media outlets across the globe reported the death of Mohammad Nabbous, the Libyan citizen-journalist responsible for founding Libya Alhurra TV, an independent Internet TV station set up to broadcast raw footage from Benghazi following the Feb. 17 uprising. Mike Lyons, a former AP reporter who is now an assistant professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, says events like those in Libya exemplify moments where citizen journalists are an integral part of the professional sphere.
College students around the world report that they are 'addicted' to media, describing in vivid terms their cravings, their anxieties and their depression when they have to abstain from using media - even for one 24 hour period.
How important are links in online news - especially when explaining science, health and technology? New research from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism suggests that non-expert audiences report more interest in and understanding of news depending on the way text and links are structured.
The New York Times will begin charging users for online content March 28. No American news outlet as big as the paper has put its content behind a pay wall after offering it for free. Will it be successful? Two marketing professors at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis debate the merits of a paywall.
Rowan University (Glassboro, N.J.) adjunct marketing professor and mother of two Jennifer Regina has tips and apps for moms on the go.
Reporting Texas, a digital media initiative in the School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin, is offering its coverage of stories about Central Texas and beyond to news organizations that may not have the time or resources to cover, while teaching students the process of producing high-quality content in a digital environment.
The social media giant Twitter began five years ago this month. While millions of people are using it to let their friends know about good places to go for lunch and what their kids are up to, it's impact on business may be just beginning says an expert at Washington University in St. Louis.
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers found that mobile media technologies such as smart phones aren’t taking people away from relying on traditional media sources such as newspapers or television.
The Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College has announced that its third annual Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media will be shared by Robert Scheer and the New York City media outlet "City Limits."
Passive news reporting that doesn’t attempt to resolve factual disputes in politics may have detrimental effects on readers, new research suggests.
A new study has found that Facebook can have a positive influence on the self-esteem. Jeffrey Hancock, professor of communication at Cornell University, said users can choose what they reveal, and feedback from friends tends to be overwhelmingly positive, both of which can boost self-esteem.
The DHS Science and Technology Directorate's First Responder Communities of Practice* launches a Virtual Social Media Working Group (VSMWG) to provide recommendations to the emergency preparedness, response, and homeland security communities on the safe and sustainable use of social media technologies before, during, and after emergencies.
Loyola psychologist says some simple steps can prevent online relationships from blossoming from friendly talk into full-fledged affairs.
With many Americans concerned about rising gas prices, state budgets and inflation — and with battle lines drawn in several states between governments and unions — the U.S. can expect more social media “wars’ in the near future.
New book by Bryant U. professor surveys the mushrooming field of political parody: the parodist news show, the politically motivated satiric documentary, and ironic activism.
The media is playing a powerful role in communicating about the political uprising in Egypt, and two faculty members from Kansas State University's A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications have expertise on the subject.
The applications you add to your smartphone can label you as a specific “appitypes,” says Trevor Pinch, professor of science and technology studies, who worked as a consultant for the Finnish telecomm giant Nokia.
New research, conducted by Katherine Chretien., M.D., F.A.C.P., associate professor of Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, reveals that while social media has the potential to have a positive social impact, there is need for greater accountability and guidelines, as some physicians who are regular users of Twitter are disseminating unethical and unprofessional content. A Research Letter titled, “Physicians on Twitter,” was included in the Feb. 9 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Josh Braun, Cornell University doctoral candidate in communication, comments on the sale of the Huffington Post to AOL. He researches how new-media newsrooms work.
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