Patric Lane, health and science editor at UNC Chapel Hill drew on Mark Twain to frame social media in his presentation at the WorldViews Conference on media and higher education in Toronto on Thursday. Lane skilfully drew from Twain’s comments on the benefits of travel to highlight the appeal of social media. In the original quote, Twain said (emphasis added): Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of

This presentation by Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, highlights how media habits in the US have changed in the past 10 years. It highlights how internet use has changed from being based around a stationary and slow computer to mobile connections built around storage and services in the cloud. The presentation was delivered at the Newhouse Monetising Online Business conference How Media Consumption Has

During a wide-ranging discussion on the impact of the internet on the US presidential elections at the AEJMC annual conference, one of the panellists raised a startling point. Aaron Smith, a research specialist at Pew Internet and American Life Project, make a prediction about how campaigns might be able to reach voters as the moment they are casting their ballots. He suggested that eventually a smart engineer would figure out