[RADIO] Is social media making you lonely? For @TWRuk, in conversation with @MeganLackie
Earlier this week, I spoke to Megan from TWR-UK, and the conversation was used (pretty much whole so far as I can tell). You can find the full programme on demand, search Newsdesk, and find 11th March, or the extract is here:
Loughborough University 'Emotion Reader' Technology
I heard about Loughborough’s development of a ‘Twitter reader’ on the radio yesterday, and more in this BBC report: The team, from the university’s new Centre for Information Management, say the system can extract a direct expression of anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise, shame and confusion from each tweet. The academics said that using […]
Survey shows that social media has graduated to academia
FROM JISC PRESS RELEASE: A new survey of colleges across Scotland shows that social media, and particularly YouTube, has firmly entered the learning environment as teaching and learning tools, with its use growing significantly year on year. In the 2012 ETNA (Enhanced Training Needs Analysis) survey, carried out by the Jisc Regional Support Centre (RSC) […]
Richard III & The News
Interesting responses to the findings of Richard III – giving much insight into current media practices: The find, announced on 4 February, triggered an avalanche of news and comment articles, shedding light on how universities are judged when they attempt to communicate major discoveries. The vast majority of the coverage was positive, but there were those […]
Amy Winehouse: How Twitter Broke the News (@stylistmagazine)
The social network as news source News of Amy Winehouse’s tragic death hit Twitter 20 minutes after she was found. Stylist profiles its rise from social network to ground-breaking news source. Where were you when you heard the news about Amy Winehouse? Millions of us were on Twitter. Forty minutes before the story was reported on mainstream news websites […]
