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How News Consumption is Shifting to the Personalized Social News Stream

BBC tells news staff to embrace social mediaBBC journalists must keep up with technological change - or leave, the director of BBC Global News Peter Horrocks says

Clay Shirky's work focuses on the rising usefulness of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, wireless networks, social software and open-source development. New technologies are enabling new kinds of cooperative structures to flourish as a way of getting things done in business, science, the arts and elsewhere, as an alternative to centralized and institutional structures, which he sees as self-limiting.

Social Media Guide

Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a promising evaluation approach that uses mathematics and visualization to represent the structure of relationships between people, organizations, sectors, silos, communities and other entities within a larger system.

The future of news: The Nieman Journalism Lab is a collaborative attempt to figure out how quality journalism can survive and thrive in the Internet age

One year on (June 2011) and what changes there have been in newspaper acceptance of social media as news plus what needs to be considered for journalism courses

Twazzup operates a leading real-time news platform that filters the news out of live internet content.

The Journal of the Learning Sciences provides a multidisciplinary forum for the presentation of research on learning and education. The journal seeks to foster new ways of thinking about learning that will allow our understanding of cognition and social cognition to have impact in education. It publishes research articles that advance our understanding of learning in real-world situations and of promoting learning in such venues, including articles that report on the roles of technology can play in promoting deep and lasting learning. The Journal of the Learning Sciences promotes engaging and thoughtful participation in learning activities, and articles reporting on new methodologies that enable rigorous investigation of learning in real-world situations.

Tracking the new media/digital journalism training at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism - and the changing media landscape

Community news for rthe digital age

The moderated business community for marketers, bloggers, PR, and media professionals

Abstract Blogs, mailing lists and networking sites are much in the news, but how effective are they for business users? David Thew is Joint MD of an executive search and recruitment consultancy with an active need to identify and contact people on a targeted basis. In this article he profiles LinkedIn, the business networking membership site that has become a key channel for him and his staff. David looks at key features and benefits and also discusses areas where he feels there is room for improvement

This paper delivers a new Twitter content classification framework based 16 existing Twitter studies and a grounded theory analysis of a personal Twitter history. It expands the existing understanding of Twitter as a multifunction tool for personal, profession, commercial and phatic communications with a split level classification scheme that offers broad categorization and specific sub categories for deeper insight into the real world application of the service.