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Analyzing 'the first YouTube war'

Hundreds of amateur videos captured by news activists, citizen journalists and foreign correspondents in Homs, and distributed to news organizations and video-sharing websites around the world, have prompted ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

OMG: Tweets, Facebook welcome in Mass. courtroom

(AP) -- When the camera switches on in one of the busiest courtrooms in Massachusetts, murder arraignments, traffic and drug cases heard there will become fodder for a new experiment: how bloggers and other citizen journalists ...

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created May 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mobile phones 'to revolutionise news coverage'

Mobile phones are set to dramatically shake up the global news industry, as cellphones increasingly become a basic consumer essential and users upgrade their handsets with greater frequency.

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created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Web sites aim to survive with hyperlocal focus

Finding a financially viable way to provide local news is a challenge large metropolitan newspapers are confronting. But a Coral Gables, Fla., Web site is among a few locally with faith it can succeed.

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created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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More informed citizens have a more positive perception of politicians

Consumption of political information is linked to more moderate and positive opinions about the sector, according to a study by the University of Navarra. The results show that scientists are the most trusted profession, ...

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created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Murdoch scandal follows classic media baron script

(AP) -- If the phone hacking scandal gripping Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire has a familiar ring, it might be because you've heard the story before. Scrappy outsider turns modest newspaper business into international ...

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created May 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brussels unhappy with Europe nuclear stress tests

The EU's energy chief Thursday deemed an almost year-long study on nuclear plant safety in Europe as short on detail and numbers and demanded further work before publication of the critical report.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Is media-driven 'pseudo-reality' the future of U.S. politics?

(Phys.org) -- In the hyperpolarized world of the 2012 election, misinformation among Americans remains widespread, a new University of Wisconsin-Madison study finds.

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created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 48

Study analyzes Twitter as news source during Arab Spring

(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.

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created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A georeferenced digital 'comic' to improve emergency management

Spanish researchers at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid have developed a computer application that allows georeferenced images that have been uploaded to social networks on the Internet to be recovered, ...

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created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

With Breitbart gone, what becomes of his empire?

(AP) -- Can you have Breitbart.com without Andrew Breitbart?

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created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Egyptians want democracy, but not U.S. efforts to promote it: researcher

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Egyptian trial of employees of four American groups that were promoting democracy was abruptly postponed earlier this week. But the crisis in U.S.-Egyptian relations continues, for reasons, ...

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created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Expat French get Internet vote for first time

French citizens will for the first time this year be able to vote in a parliamentary election over the Internet, an experiment that could be extended to other elections if successful.

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created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Japanese entrepreneurs aim for Silicon Valley

For an emerging generation of Japanese innovators, the dream isn't a job for life at a big company. They have new ambitions, and they're determined to go places. Especially Silicon Valley.

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created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1


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