College students who use Facebook spend less time studying and have lower grade point averages than students who have not signed up for the social networking website, according to a pilot study at one university.
Do gentler emotions seem in short supply? Media culture should allow time for reflective moments, say USC neuroscientists in a study that also shows higher emotions to be as rooted in the body as primal impulses.
Universities need to embrace new online media, social networks and a culture of "openness" as part of their pedagogy, or they risk becoming seen as anachronisms in today's hyper-connected world where information is available freely, says a University of Illinois expert who studies the knowledge economy's effect on higher education.
As part of a U.S. government-wide effort to expand the amount of information available to the public about its programs, NIST has created a channel on the video social networking site YouTube.
How social networking sites can provide moral and nutritional support for people trying to lose weight.
The John. A. Hartford Foundation, one of the nation's leading funders in aging and health, has launched Health AGEnda, a new blog, to encourage policy and other thought leaders to consider older adults' experiences in the nation's ongoing debate about how to improve the health care for all Americans.
Two Texas Tech journalism professors predict a brave new world for large dailies that survive today's turmoil.
American University today launched a new, redesigned Web site at www.american.edu featuring interactive, multimedia capabilities that provide dynamic content with state-of-the-art Web 2.0 communication.
Students in Elizabeth Barrett's convention and event management course put together a launch party for Kansas State University's recently renamed department of hospitality management and dietetics. They procured a location, catering, flowers and promotional fliers -- all in Second Life.
Top California law schools launch new blog, "Legal Planet," which provides insight and analysis on climate change, energy, and environmental law and policy.
In a changing landscape of new media on the web, major media outlets may need to address how their staff conduct themselves on many popular sites. The New York Times recently announced a New Media Policy for its staff; will other newspapers soon follow suit and issue new media policies of their own?
iPod Touch devices, pocket-size, portable media players capable of wireless Internet connection, go into the hands of every student in one section of Jeremy Wendt's educational technology course each semester.
More and more investors have become wary of the information provided to them by financial advisors and are taking it upon themselves to do their own financial investigative legwork. Meanwhile, billions of dollars are invested in small- and micro-cap companies each year, yet this space is sorely underserved in terms of online presence and general media coverage.
Houston Dougharty, vice president for student affairs at Grinnell College, is available to discuss student reliance on social media and the impact electronic contact can have on interpersonal relationships.
As members of the mainstream media find themselves confronting economic woes, they also must face the emerging clout of bloggers and other independent media. Mainstream media must now compete with independent media as more people look to these sources for quality journalism on the major issues of our time. Satellite uplink on campus.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) is harnessing the power of wireless technologies and online communities to help nurses throughout the world "connect for health."
The Alzheimer Research Forum (www.alzforum.org), a dynamic, biomedical Web community that is heavily used by Alzheimer researchers around the world, is preparing to migrate to a new platform that will enable it to more fully exploit social networking ("Web 2.0") and the Semantic Web ("Web 3.0").
Newswise announces the prototype of the Newswise Blog. As part of our developing New Media Strategy, the Newswise Blog will go live Friday, March 13, hosted on the popular blogging site Blogger. The blog will be accessible at newswiseblog.blogspot.com while we develop, test, and build a permanent home for the blog on Newswise.com.
New 3-D Lab at University of Southern California explores application of 3-D technology in the home.
Considering all the layoffs, downsizes and cutbacks reported in the news these days, it's not surprising to learn that the news itself is being cut back.
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