Category Archives: Journalism
MIT8 talk on reconfiguring journalism
I was part of a panel at the Media in Transition conference at MIT discussing how social media platforms blur the professional and the public. For the talk, I explored how social media platforms have evolved from spaces for personal exchanges to environments for real-time news and information, ...
CBC The National on social media and the Boston Marathon bombing
On April 17 I was featured in a piece looking at how websites such as 4chan and Reddit are the crowdsourcing investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings. The sites have been buzzing with exchanges about what happened and who was responsible. I argue that far from vigilantism, peop ...
Paper on content analysis in era of Big Data published
My paper with Seth C Lewis and Rodrigo Zamith on approaches to researching Big Data has been published in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. Content Analysis in an Era of Big Data: A Hybrid Approach to Computational and Manual Methods is in a special edition of the journal exa ...
New social media course featured by UBC
Mark Mushet Photograph My new social media course is featured in the latest issue of UBC Reports. The course is the first collaboration between the Graduate School of Journalism and the Sauder School of Business. It brings together journalism and commerce students to work on client proj ...
