Social Media

Media Blogs for Students

Adweek: This blog makes it simple to keep up with news in the press, television, technology, and advertising. http://www.adweek.com/

Journalism.org: Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism shares data, analysis, news, and reports through this must-read blog. http://www.journalism.org/

Newshooks: Here, readers can find articles on a wide scope of journalism-related topics. http://newshooks.com/

Mashable: This blog is still a must-read for anyone who wants to be at the cutting edge of social media and digital technology. http://mashable.com/

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Antisocial Media Motives

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Social media uses computer-mediated tools allowing people to create, share and exchange information, audio, images and videos. Terrorism has benefited and attempted to monopolize the medium that can not be controlled. Read and learn what experts are saying.

Can social media interrupt online terrorist activity? http://on.msnbc.com/1OMuX3s via @alexwitt

Social media, the new megaphone for violent perpetrators http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Articl…

A Happy Face

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Quit Facebook and become happier, this according to a new study from a global organization, which enjoys spreading knowledge of subjective well-being to a larger audiences.

The Happiness Research Institute is an independent think tank focusing on life satisfaction, happiness and quality of life. The group's mission is to inform decision makers of the causes and effects of human happiness, make subjective well-being part of the public policy debate, and improve the quality of life for citizens across the world.

MEDIA MADNESS

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Why is it that following acts of violence, which causes multiple deaths, the media keeps mentioning the perpetrator? These people who commit crimes are sick people seeking attention and the media gives it to them every time. We need to have conversations with friends and colleagues about this problem.

CITY IMAGES proposes that these criminals be left in the shadows to lurk in their own darkness. The emotional crescendo of family friends and our nation is understandable following tormented losses, most of which are caused by the growing access of guns in this country.

SOCIAL MEDIA

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A possible new public enemy, Social media is driving, and in some cases, predicting, violence world wide. ... In the same way that flyers taped to light poles used to announce parties, news of a big gathering, this new form of communication is being manipulated by terrorist groups,

Websites and Resources

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Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications — Features information on the accrediting standards as well as a listing of the accredited programs.
AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom — An online journal of The American Association of University Professors. It is the first journal devoted entirely to the subject of academic freedom and is funded by the AAUP’s Academic Freedom Fund. The journal is available free of charge.

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Social, or anti social media?

Many media tools are designed for online mingling, but are also equipped with features that make it easy to ignore your contacts.

Twitter is an example: Click on your former friend’s profile, then click the gear symbol and scroll down to select “mute.” These tweets will disappear from your feed, but they will never know about your action. Facebook has similar options for secretly tuning out specific friends.

Instagram is among the services that do not make this easy, although there are third-party apps that claim to let you filter your feed.

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Digital Media Lowers Social Skills

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In today’s world, digital media use begins at a very early age and takes up a large proportion of the informal learning environment, making it essential to assess the effects of the substantial amount of time children engage with media.

A new study provides evidence that, in five days of being limited to in-person interaction without access to any screen-based or media device for communication, preteens improved on measures of nonverbal emotion understanding, significantly more than a control group.

Social Media Considerations

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City Island Images is constantly searching for methods to increasingly leverage social media. It is one of our efforts to iicrease the quality of our news and information services and thereby improve our audience and enable greater citizen engagement, elevate public affairs, and much more.

We are developing the following:

Aligning Objectives

Transparency and Collaboration

Engaging the Public

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