Electrical engineers at UC San Diego created games on Facebook in order to improve their experimental music search engine that is capable of listening to new songs and accurately labeling them with words"”with no help from humans. These computer-labeled songs can then be retrieved later when someone types these same words into the cutting-edge music search engine.
At least 180 community, family and other foundations have contributed nearly $128 million in grants to news and information initiatives in the United States since 2005, according to a report released today (June 2) by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, a project of American University's School of Communication.
Tweeting your friends at work? Worried about how your Facebook profile may harm your chances of landing that much-coveted job? Ryerson University experts share their knowledge on social media trends that are changing how people communicate.
The following are experts on social media from the University of Texas at Austin that are available for interviews.
Posts on the latest news in bone, muscle, tendon, ligament and spine injuries, conditions and diseases.
Celebrities, media personalities and athletes are increasingly being misrepresented in the world of new social media, especially on Twitter. Are social media going through the same growing pains that were experienced in the early days of the Internet? Why do people feel compelled to commit social media fraud? Temple experts in new media, journalism and psychology offer their insights.
At WSU students are learning to conceptualize information and share news for different social media sites; classes are being taught in Second Life; and VPs, deans, professors, colleges and a variety of units share opinions, news and links via wikis, blogs, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
Perceptions vary regarding the legitimacy of bloggers and their value to the sport organization, and many organizations have yet to formalize blogging policies.
The Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, is a leader in incorporating social media outreach on a number of fronts.
The media now has access to the most comprehensive vascular health news though social networking and on-line resources. The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) provides detailed vascular health information from the country's leading vascular surgeons.
At a recent IEEE technology conference, UC San Diego electrical engineers presented a solution to their problem with the song "Bohemian Rhapsody,""”and it's not that they don't like this hit from the band Queen.
Organizations communicating health and safety information during a crisis need to respond quickly and in common terms when communicating to the public, otherwise audiences will seek information elsewhere, according to a study by a University of Texas at Austin researcher.
People who closely follow political blogs and regular news media put more faith in the accuracy of blogs. Research also shows journalists tend to follow the liberal blogosphere more closely despite equal awareness of conservative blogs.
Philip E. Bourne, a computational biologist and professor with the University of California, San Diego, will be presented with the 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award this week in recognition of his efforts as a leading advocate for the free and open dissemination of science and scientific data.
Choosing authenticity means cultivating courage, exercising compassion and nurturing connection. It is a quality defined by University of Houston research professor Brené Brown and a guiding principle as she leads a two-month international, online read-along of her book, "I Thought It Was Just Me," which discusses the impact of shame on every aspect of our lives.
Earthwatch, the international environmental organization, announced phase two of its partnership with technology start-up TurnTo today, just a year and a half after the non-profit helped to provide the inspiration behind the e-commerce venture.
A recent survey conducted at a university in Indiana confirmed what most college students (and those who work with college students) probably already know: Text messaging is the college student's preferred form of communication.
Important research for online marketers from Haas School Assistant Professor Zsolt Katona.
In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter "” just by thinking about it.
SciVee, a Web 2.0 resource dedicated to the dissemination of scientific research and science-specific research networking, has completed a number of significant upgrades to its site, enabling faster uploads, improved synchronization, more accurate website searches, and the addition of 32 new science categories.
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