Feature Channels: Media and Journalism

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A new supercomputer rating system will be released at Supercomputing Conference 2010 on Nov. 17 by an international team led by Sandia National Laboratories. The rating system, Graph500, tests supercomputer ability to analyze large, graph-based structures that link the huge number of data points present in biological, social and security problems. The intent is to influence computer makers to build computers with the architecture to deal with these increasingly complex problems.

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Using a social networking platform such as Twitter as a tool in university courses can increase student engagement and boost grades. That’s the conclusion of a study involving university students published Nov. 12, 2010, in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.

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An industry leader with over 25 years of experience in the startup, management and growth of successful media companies will assist the Roy H. Park School of Communications in establishing and maintaining key relationships.

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Truthy.indiana.edu, the website created by researchers at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Informatics and Computing to root out Twitter-based political astroturfing campaigns, is finding success.

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Two elite blogs often post the most interesting political videos that are then picked up by top general-interest blogs.

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While many of their peers will spend hours memorizing and theorizing, students taking a social media class at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, will use their time to build and implement social media strategies for growing, socially conscious organizations.

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Newsgames: Journalism at Play, the latest book by Ian Bogost examines the use and potential of video games to inform the public and bring context to the news.

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The gift will be announced today during the inauguration of the University of Southern California’s11th president C. L. Max Nikias. The funds will be used to support a new state-of-the-art building on the USC University Park campus.

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People who believe false rumors about the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero in New York City not only are more likely to oppose that project – they are more likely to oppose building of a mosque in their own neighborhood.

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Astroturfers, Twitter-bombers and smear campaigners need beware this election season as a group of leading Indiana University information and computer scientists today unleashed Truthy.indiana.edu.

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By using social networks such as Twitter, researchers can more quickly and inexpensively determine trends in spread of contagious diseases such as influenza.

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A study examining Americans’ interest in the rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim shows that the mainstream media – particularly television – still influences the topics that engage the public.

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Within the last decade, the genre of food writing has become an American obsession. A new food writing course at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia inspires students to develop a new food consciousness and to grow as writers as they discover the plate on many levels -- not just as cuisine, but as a series of interconnected stories between food producers, politicians, flavorists, chefs, writers, diners, pilots and even truckers.

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Professors and a Ph.D. student from UALR --the University of Arkansas at Little Rock -- developed a new model to manage the "vast ocean" of data being generated by users of growing social websites. The model allows Internet sites to automatically adjust privacy needs of consumers or organizations to the context in which the data is accessed.

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Online presence may hold the key to November elections.

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Each day, we exchange a mess of content through Facebook, Twitter, blogs, discussion boards and other online forums. How are companies and other organizations using our data? Rohini Srihari understands complicated concerns it raises.

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A new book by a University of Illinois at Chicago communication scholar examines how democracies are evolving in the Internet era.

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The annual study of the impact of the Internet on Americans by the Center for the Digital Future found that 49 percent of Internet users said they have used free micro-blogs such as Twitter. But when asked if they would be willing to pay for Twitter, zero percent said yes.

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An Indiana University professor's new book looks at how people today are using new media to break up with each other and how mediums designed to create connections creates all sorts of problems for those trying to disconnect.

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ICSI researchers show how information about where videos and photos were captured can be quickly extracted, leaving those who post images online vulnerable to attacks in the real world.