It is a commonly held that information on Wikipedia should not be trusted, since it is written and edited by non-experts without professional oversight. But researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have found differently, according to a study published online Sept. 1 in the Journal of Oncology Practice.
A week of health care social media learning and networking activities hosted by the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media will culminate in the center’s first Social Media Residency, Oct. 20–21, 2011 in Rochester.
Audi took the top rank in the second-annual Prestige 100®: China IQ, which measures the digital footprint of 100 prestige brands in China, the world’s fastest-growing luxury market.
After analyzing more than 3 million tweets, gigabytes of YouTube content and thousands of blog posts, a new study finds that social media played a central role in shaping political debates in the Arab Spring.
A new study from the University of Iowa suggests that social media users with small numbers of more talkative friends might be more influential with their online network of acquaintances than users with a larger network.
Information Scientists at received an NSF grant to investigate how social media can influence group actions. The study will develop experimental tools to examine the factors that govern the success and failure of cyber-collective movements.
Dr. Cindy Shen, social media expert and assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, published an article exploring the dynamics of online communities.
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.
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