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10 Historical Events Affected by Social Media - 0 views

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  • Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, Princess Diana’s death — these three events might have played out differently had social media been as strong as it is now.
  • Today we turn to social media when an influential event occurs as a way to share our personal experiences and relate to the people most affected. It provides us with the reassurance that we’re not alone, but also gives us the opportunity to help.
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4 lessons from Columbia's social media debate and related events | Poynter. - 0 views

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  • Both sides agreed, however, that a journalist’s improper use of social media—spouting a racial slur, for example—was grounds for punishment. Journalists are public figures, they said, represent their parent company, and have a responsibility to uphold their employer’s reputation.
  • Still, the consensus seemed to be that ‘old-school objectivity’ is a myth: we all have biases, both sides said, and we can only try to overcome these biases in our reporting. Journalists understand this truth. Audiences do not.
  • The anti-regulation side, of course, said that journalists should favor transparency over objectivity, and that audiences deserve to know a journalist’s biases.
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  • 4. Social media norms are still developing; involve all stakeholders before making a brash regulatory decision.
  • In the end, the debate was a draw: 50 percent of voters said that “the boss” should regulate his or her journalists’ use of social media, while the other 50 percent thought that “the boss” should not
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Facebook Is The #1 Social Site For News Traffic: Pew - 0 views

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  • the social network lags behind Google and other platforms as a significant driver of traffic to news media sites.
  • n fact, only nine percent of U.S. adults get their news from Facebook and Twitte
  • That’s according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s
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  • On any mobile device, seven percent get news on Facebook very often and 19 percent get news on Facebook somewhat often; 27 percent of those who obtain news on Facebook do so via Twitter too, with 11 percent doing it  somewhat or very often; About 70 percent of U.S. adults get news links from friends and family on Facebook, not from (subscribing to) journalists and news organizations on the social network; and Overall, 13 percent of digital news consumers follow news recommendations on both Facebook and Twitter.
  • More than twice as many digital news consumers follow news recommendations from Facebook than from Twitter,
  • n other words, people aren’t relying solely on Facebook. And the Pew study also revealed:
  • Facebook is the more dominant of the social channels for driving news traffic, in part because of the site’s stickiness
  • Based on Nielsen data, Facebook users stay on the site an average of 423 minutes each per month.
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      Matt M on 23 Mar 12
       
      This article is describing how that alot of people are always on facebook but it still has not reached the level that Google is at yet. It is says that people use facebook to get news but they solely rely on it even though that people on facebook follow news recommendations more than twitter. This article shows that facebook is loyal to ciizens. It shows this by not only posting news from one site but from any site that want to post here it also doesnt tell you which site it needs to listen to.
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