Social media is a place where users can create and share content with the public, their personal connections, or direct individuals. In recent years, it has also become a platform for political agendas. According to Robert D. Brown, a political science professor at The University of …
The social media data’s usage has been explored in various ways over the years. The usage ranges from health issues to political campaigns. Now a study claims that social media data can be used to help predict crimes. The study was conducted by four researchers from …
“Endless Mayfly” was an operation that set out to create fake websites intended to spread information through inauthentic media outlets using online personas based on internet robots. The term “Mayfly” developed from an insect that lived underwater for years, but once hatched as adults, live …
People who support smoking are more likely than non-smokers to use social media to support their own beliefs and behaviors, a study finds. The study stated that pro-smoking campaigners could not support each other offline; therefore, they are moving toward social media to contact each other …
The development of social media platforms has led news organizations to search for new audiences. However, social media users consume news differently than traditional media audiences. People want quick access to social media and they want to get the news straight from their feed. “Social users …
In the digital age of consuming news anytime and anywhere, social media has become an important channel for journalists to collect and report news and engage with consumers. Since the rise of social media as a “transparent,” “interactive” and “real-time” media source, news networks that encourage …
Twitter users share content on prescription drug misuse to help and inform each other and they rely more on information generated by media organizations than health-based organizations, a recent study found. The study published in the Journal of Health Communication recommended that health-based organizations work with …
Social media platforms have been a boon for spreading inaccurate information about various issues, particularly health. These platforms are also a source of getting information about health and sciences. As a result, many people tend to believe inaccurate information that goes viral on these platforms. …
A recent study reveals that politicians rely more on social media than TV talk shows to shape and deliver their messages to their target groups and present their nearness to the people. Department of Communication and Media Research of University of Zürich, Switzerland researchers-Nicole Ernst, Sina …
Over the past decade, people have experienced a wave of social networking sites, offering them to experience unprecedented interactivity. A recent Pew Research Center study found that about 56 percent of adult social media users in the United States use more than one of these platforms: Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, …
Advances in technology allow news outlets to publish news on various platforms—their own websites, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, and so on. As a result, many readers do not subscribe to broadsheet; rather, they read news on social media pages of news outlets. News …
You’re on Facebook and Twitter, of course, but are you making the most of each platform? What about Instagram and LinkedIn? Tracy Davidson, morning anchor at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, is on all of the above, early and often. “I start at 1:15 [a.m.] when I wake …
