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Susanne Gierds

Revenge of the Netizens: Online Activists Take On Germany's Political Mainstream - SPIE... - 0 views

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Twitter Elections Germany

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  • Susanne Gierds on 01 Sep 09
     
    As Germany heads into national elections, established political parties are trying to appeal to Web-savvy voters using Facebook and Twitter. But their Internet policies are alienating bloggers and activists, who are using the medium to protest against the political mainstream.
HUANHUAN XU

Simple Facebook question raises problems around the world - 0 views

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Facebook Google political issues

shared by HUANHUAN XU on 23 Sep 09 - Cached
  • HUANHUAN XU on 23 Sep 09
     
    It is debatable for networking sites to name some places, such as Taiwan, Tibet, to meet their users' needs. Recently, Facebook changed its listing for the Golan Heights under a pro-Israel group's pressure. How do social networking sites cope with these politics involved issues? It is still a question.
Yichen Zhu

Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact? - 0 views

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open acess ISI Web of Science database publisher behaviours

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  • Yichen Zhu on 24 Sep 09
     
    Although many authors believe that their work has a greater research impact if it is freely available, studies to demonstrate that impact are few. This study looks at articles in four disciplines at varying stages of adoption of open access-philosophy, political science, electrical and electronic engineering and mathematics-to see whether they have a greater im- pact as measured by citations in the ISI Web of Science database when their authors make them freely available on the Internet. The finding is that, across all four disciplines, freely available articles do have a greater research impact. Shedding light on this category of open access reveals that scholars in diverse disciplines are adopting open-access practices and being rewarded for it.
Susanne Gierds

Interview with Arianna Huffington: - 0 views

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blogs Huffington Post

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  • Susanne Gierds on 08 Sep 09
     
    The publisher of America's most-famous blog lashes out at the poll and political horse race-driven mainstream media, saying it'll be up to the bloggers to make coverage of the next presidential election interesting. Those same bloggers, she argues, could also spell trouble for Hillary Clinton.
yunju wang

A New Horizon for the News - The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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shared by yunju wang on 12 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Still, the Times seems likely to attract many readers even after it begins charging for content.
  • Last year, circulation dropped on average by 4.6 percent on weekdays and 4.8 percent on Sundays. Earlier this year, Detroit's two daily papers reduced home delivery to three days a week, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ended its print edition, and the Rocky Mountain News shut down altogether. This summer, The Boston Globe, which is losing more than $50 million a year, survived only by giving in to the draconian cutbacks demanded by its owner, the New York Times Company, while the Times itself, weighed down by the Globe, had to take out a $250 million loan from Carlos Slim Helú, Mexico's richest man, at a junk-bond-level interest rate of 14 percent a year.
  • The traditional three staples of newspaper advertising—automotive, employment, and real estate—have all drastically declined, thanks to Craigslist, eBay, the travails of Detroit, and the consolidation of department stores (resulting in fewer retail ad pages). Meanwhile, the steady expansion of space on the Internet has caused online ad rates to crash, and these are not expected to recover even when the economy as a whole does.
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  • advertising
  • When it comes to mismanagement, then, the newspaper business seems in a class with Detroit. Unlike GM, though, newspapers offer a product that consumers still value. But how to cash in on it? As the old business models fade, new ones are urgently being tested. Surveying the blackened landscape, I searched for new buds—and stumbled upon something much larger.
  • it seems overwhelmed by gadgets and gizmos, features and fluff. Technologically in a class by itself, the paper has seemed less adept at grasping the Web's potential to spotlight issues and stir debate. This summer, for instance, the blogosphere lit up over "The Great American Bubble Machine," Matt Taibbi's provocative Rolling Stone article about the political and financial power of Goldman Sachs.
  • building sufficient Web traffic to attract advertisers.
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