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An analysis by researchers at the Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) at George Mason University shows that the Boston Marathon bombings had little effect on conversations on social media regarding immigration reform. http://phys.org/news287158954.html Other Sciences Tue, 07 May 2013 15:22:41 EST news287158954 (Phys.org) —As climate studies saturate scientific journals and mainstream media, with opposing viewpoints quickly squaring off in reaction and debate, new findings can easily be lost in the noise. http://phys.org/news285840322.html Space & Earth Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:05:36 EST news285840322 The man who led the inquiry into Britain's phone-hacking scandal has warned that bloggers and tweeters should be subject to the same laws as traditional media outlets to prevent a decline in standards of journalism. http://phys.org/news274595708.html Technology Thu, 13 Dec 2012 04:35:22 EST news274595708 It was not just a victory for President Barack Obama, it was validation for the number-crunchers and statistical model geeks, including a New York Times blogger who became a target for conservatives. http://phys.org/news271515561.html Technology Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:59:33 EST news271515561 The US media coverage of the 2012 presidential campaign has been more negative than positive, with the harshest comments coming in social media, a study said Friday. http://phys.org/news271077730.html Other Sciences Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:22:20 EST news271077730 Russell Simmons has made a career - and a fortune - programming to audiences that the mainstream media has ignored. http://phys.org/news269281300.html Technology Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:50:01 EST news269281300 News outlets need to be held to account for their coverage of the English riots, a new report has argued. http://phys.org/news263470150.html Other Sciences Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:09:20 EST news263470150 (Phys.org) -- School-age teenagers are widely exposed to sexualised and raunchy imagery, but are developing their own ways of dealing with it, a Flinders University sociology researcher has found. http://phys.org/news258361915.html Other Sciences Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:30:01 EST news258361915 Over the course of 2011's momentous Arab Spring uprisings, young women in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen used social media and cyberactivism to carve out central roles in the revolutionary struggles under way in their countries, according to a new study commissioned by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. http://phys.org/news256927686.html Other Sciences Tue, 22 May 2012 17:48:13 EST news256927686 It seems like yesterday that women's erotica was something to be read in private under the sheets. But no more. http://phys.org/news256791055.html Technology Mon, 21 May 2012 03:51:12 EST news256791055 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of Illinois at Chicago study explores the uses of Twitter as a news reporting mechanism during last year's Mideast uprisings known as Arab Spring. http://phys.org/news251446302.html Other Sciences Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:12:41 EST news251446302 In the past few years, the video game industry has grown from a niche market into a major part of mainstream media. This increase in popularity and use of technology has allowed video game developers to insert more detail and nuance into the storylines of their games. Many video games have begun incorporating religion as a key aspect to plot points and story lines. Greg Perreault, a doctoral student in the University of Missouri School of Journalism, found that the many newer-generation video games equate religion with violence in the game narratives. http://phys.org/news249571935.html Other Sciences Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:34:14 EST news249571935 Spanish-language media in the United States play a critical role in shaping perceptions of public opinion among Latino voters and public officials of every ethnicity across the country. They also play a far greater advocacy role for the communities they serve than do their English-language counterparts, according to a University of California, Riverside researcher. http://phys.org/news249198860.html Other Sciences Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:54:27 EST news249198860 (PhysOrg.com) -- A study of 2.4 million Twitter messages from the time of the riots has found that politicians and other commentators were wrong to claim the website played an important role in inciting and organising the disturbances. http://phys.org/news242550200.html Other Sciences Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:20:02 EST news242550200 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange blasted the mainstream media, Washington, banks and the Internet itself as he addressed journalists in Hong Kong on Monday via videolink from house arrest in England. http://phys.org/news241713085.html Technology Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:31:37 EST news241713085 The conventional wisdom that says the 20th century was a disaster for crop diversity is nothing more than a myth, according to a forthcoming study by a University of Illinois expert in intellectual property law. http://phys.org/news239467265.html Biology Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:41:35 EST news239467265 A University of Missouri study of recent political blogs indicates politics are getting nastier due to digital media, which are segmenting people into polarized interest groups. The researcher recommends a balanced approach to finding information in order to return civility to political discourse, which is at the heart of democracy. http://phys.org/news239448893.html Other Sciences Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:35:45 EST news239448893 (PhysOrg.com) -- Wolfgang Wagner, editor of the journal Remote Sensing, has resigned from his post after an internal review revealed that a paper published in his journal by climatic scientists Roy Spencer and William Braswell had not been properly reviewed before publishing. Subsequently, he says a paper that was fundamentally flawed was allowed to be printed, damaging the integrity of the journal, and thus the only right thing for him to do was resign. http://phys.org/news234432625.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:10:44 EST news234432625 Six years on from the devastating 7/7 London bombings and in the wake of the inquest into the attacks, a special issue of the journal Memory Studies, published by SAGE, explores new research into our collective memories of this tragic event. http://phys.org/news229228645.html Other Sciences Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:39:44 EST news229228645 (AP) -- President Barack Obama kicked off his first Twitter town hall with - what else? - a tweet. http://phys.org/news229174376.html Technology Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:33:07 EST news229174376 (PhysOrg.com) -- A University at Buffalo School of Social Work professor is helping redefine the country's definition of being poor with research that shows the dramatic difference between achieving "basic economic security" and the federal government's "poverty line." http://phys.org/news222943309.html Other Sciences Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:42:11 EST news222943309 When The Huffington Post was sold to AOL last Monday for $315 million, its founder, Arianna Huffington, was feted as a new media pioneer. Not everyone is celebrating, however. http://phys.org/news216798600.html Technology Sun, 13 Feb 2011 05:50:46 EST news216798600 (AP) -- WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange lashed out at the mainstream media during a debate at a London university Thursday, fighting back at a string of unfavorable stories that have appeared since his organization's publication of a cache of U.S. intelligence documents. http://phys.org/news205093515.html Technology Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:25:28 EST news205093515 Media reports on illicit drugs "reduce acceptability and increase perception of risk" among young people, study finds. http://phys.org/news204885310.html Other Sciences Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:35:19 EST news204885310 A study examining Americans' interest in the rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim shows that the mainstream media - particularly television - still influences the topics that engage the public. http://phys.org/news204827244.html Other Sciences Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:50:01 EST news204827244 The prevalence of sex in the mainstream media has led many researchers to study its effect on impressionable adolescents. Several published, peer-reviewed studies have indicated that there is a link between exposure to sex in the media and the early onset of sexual activity among teens. However, a study led by Temple psychologist Laurence Steinberg questions these findings. http://phys.org/news201367250.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:30:01 EST news201367250 (PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to Saturday's federal election in Australia, Twitter users are clear: politicians who spend time in conversation get most out of the platform, and the Greens are exploiting this better than the major parties, according to an Australian National University study. http://phys.org/news201339783.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:10:01 EST news201339783 (PhysOrg.com) -- When a whistle-blower's allegations of financial misconduct gain the attention of mainstream media, the accused company's stock price takes an immediate hit, even if it's countered by outrage and denials. http://phys.org/news197641631.html Other Sciences Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:50:01 EST news197641631 President Horst Koehler's shock resignation this week came after mainstream media jumped on comments about Germany's overseas role that they would have missed if it hadn't been for bloggers. http://phys.org/news194762710.html Technology Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:00:02 EST news194762710 (PhysOrg.com) -- "War porn" -- videos viewed for entertainment that feature gruesome footage of dead American soldiers or the killing of soldiers and civilians in the Middle East wars -- are growing in numbers online, in part, because of the absence of a strong mainstream media presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, says University at Buffalo popular culture expert David Schmid, PhD. http://phys.org/news193338004.html Other Sciences Mon, 17 May 2010 18:00:21 EST news193338004