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This just in: journalists use new media

March 8, 2010 By

The Society for New Communications Research released a new Survey of Media in a Wired World study. It found that About 70% of journalists surveyed use social networking sites (an increase of 28% from 2008) 48% use Twitter or other microblogging sites and tools (an increase of 25% from 2008) 66% use blogs 48% use online [...]

Filed Under: Facts and Figures, Social Media

New Research on Identity in Social Networks

March 1, 2010 By

Do we reveal who we really are on social media sites? A new study of social media use in Germany reveals that people who use social networking tools like Facebook actually do present fairly accurate representations of themselves online. The researcher, Mitja Back of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, argues that

Filed Under: Social Media, Social Networking

Trust, Social Capitol, and the Noise Machine

February 10, 2010 By

A quarter-century ago in digital years (2005, to be exact), technologist Clive Thompson argued that “information is no longer a scare resource – attention is,” in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. This isn’t a secret to anyone working in the digital space in 2010. However, new research from Edelman suggests that the many tools [...]

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Congress and Twitter

February 10, 2010 By

Hardly a day passes without somebody writing something about advocacy and Twitter. Enter a new study about how many Members of Congress use Twitter. Congressional Research Service released a new report, Social Networking and Constituent Communications: Member Use of Twitter During a Two-Month Period in the 111th Congress on Twitter usage between August and September 2009 [...]

Filed Under: Facts and Figures, Social Media