Category Archives: Social networks
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, ...
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 ...
Keynote on social media at BEA Canada annual conference
Beyond Broadcast: How Social Media is Shaping What We KnowReaction to my keynote at BEAC annual conference, Ottawa, May 25 2012Storified by Alfred Hermida · Thu, May 31 2012 15:11:51Alfred @hermida begins his keynote address at #BEAC2012 http://pic.twitter.com/NOUQhvB2BEAC@Hermida says we ...
Twitter and verification paper published in Journalism Practice
My paper discussing how verification could work in networked media is now available online. The paper, Tweets and Truth: Journalism as a Discipline of Collaborative Verification, appears in the journal, Journalism Practice. The abstract gives a flavour of the argument in the paper: This ...
