Posts Tagged ‘social media’
Top Super Bowl ads, like Young Vader, tell a story
VANDERBILT (US) — Although shock can create a splash, research shows Super Bowl ads with a storyline score big. Continue…
Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:03 - 1 Comment
Top Stories - Jan 27, 2012 12:16 - 2 Comments
Social skills suffer when tweens multitask
STANFORD (US) — Tween girls who spend endless hours multitasking on digital devices tend to be less successful with social and emotional development, say researchers. (more…)
Top Stories - Jan 26, 2012 13:06 - 0 Comments
Autism: Kids prefer solo, not social, screen time
WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS / U. MISSOURI (US) — Children with autism tend to spend their “screen time” alone, as opposed to using social media. (more…)
Society & Culture - Dec 28, 2011 12:10 - 0 Comments
Consumers too wily for traditional ads?
WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS (US) — Traditional product advertising—full-page magazine ads and 30-second television commercials—may be going the way of the rotary phone. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 8, 2011 13:03 - 0 Comments
Parents help underage kids join Facebook
NYU (US) — Many parents know their underage children are on Facebook in violation of the site’s age restrictions and often even help them join the site, a new study shows. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 3, 2011 12:19 - 2 Comments
OMG! Twitter has roots in the 17th century
STANFORD (US) — The explosion of information via social media is nothing new. Europeans were similarly bombarded with an avalanche of new communication forms during the 17th and 18th centuries. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 20, 2011 8:20 - 0 Comments
Skype flaw exposes users’ location, identity
NYU (US) — Flaws in Skype and similar Internet phone systems could potentially disclose the identities, locations, and even digital files of hundreds of millions of users, a new study finds. (more…)
Top Stories - Oct 7, 2011 9:42 - 1 Comment
Tweets show global trend: Mood swings
CORNELL (US) — Around the world, the day dawns full of promise. But moods go downhill during the day, finally rebounding at night, according to an analysis of 2.4 million tweets in 84 countries. (more…)
Society & Culture - Sep 29, 2011 14:58 - 0 Comments
Freedom or repression: Twitter goes both ways
PENN STATE (US) — Twitter, Facebook, and text messaging were used both as tools for freedom and as weapons of repression in recent civil strife in Egypt and Kenya. (more…)
Top Stories - Sep 12, 2011 15:46 - 0 Comments
Arab Spring: Revolution goes viral
U. WASHINGTON-SEATTLE (US) — Social media played a central role in shaping political debates in the Arab Spring, according to an analysis of millions of tweets and YouTube posts. (more…)
Society & Culture - Aug 12, 2011 9:24 - 1 Comment
Can Lindsay Lohan muzzle free speech?
U. BUFFALO (US) — Rights of publicity that give star power celebrities exclusive control over the use of their names, images, and voices may be putting basic rights of free speech in jeopardy, a new report finds. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 11, 2011 15:54 - 1 Comment
Software mines Twitter for ‘sick’ trends
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Sift through 2 billion tweets and you can find a lot of useful public health intelligence on where people are sick, what ails them, and what they’re doing about it. (more…)
Society & Culture - May 20, 2011 10:11 - 1 Comment
Black students more likely to tweet
NORTHWESTERN (US) — A survey of freshman college students in Chicago showed that 37 percent of black students were using Twitter in 2010 compared to 21 percent of white students. (more…)
Society & Culture - Apr 14, 2011 9:36 - 1 Comment
Real-time search worth $30M a day
PENN STATE (US) — Updates on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other real-time content sites could be worth more than $30 million a day—or nearly $10.9 billion a year—to advertisers. (more…)
Society & Culture - Mar 7, 2011 11:46 - 0 Comments
Software opens Urdu to data mining
U. BUFFALO (US) — A new software system will allow for computational processing of documents in Urdu, Pakistan’s national language, providing a foundation for more accurate transliteration for English social media sites. (more…)
Society & Culture - Dec 23, 2010 13:28 - 0 Comments
‘You’ and Bieber top Tweet wishlists
MCGILL U. (CAN) — “You” is, hands down, the No. 1 thing people want for Christmas according to Xmas Tweets, a website that extracts and prioritizes the most up-to-date holiday wishes posted on the social-networking site Twitter. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 25, 2010 16:59 - 6 Comments
Busted! Astroturf campaign on Twitter
INDIANA U.(US) — The website Truthy.indiana.edu has uncovered one of the most egregious examples of a Twitter-based political astroturfing campaign. (more…)
Society & Culture - Sep 29, 2010 16:00 - 1 Comment
Twitter-bombers (and voters), beware
INDIANA U. (US) — As the November election season gears up in the U.S., a new Twitter-based research tool (Truthy.indiana.edu) is on the prowl for deceptive tactics, smear campaigns, and misinformation. (more…)
Society & Culture - Sep 9, 2010 14:51 - 1 Comment
Website ranks Twitter users by influence
NORTHWESTERN (US)—Having tons of followers on Twitter doesn’t necessarily mean you’re among the most influential people in the Twitterverse, according to new research. (more…)
