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

Image by ToastyKen via FlickrResearching honeymoon plans for Thailand, I’ve been using a combination of legacy media in the form of a Lonely Planet guide, and new media, in this case TripAdvisor. The two fulfill very different purposes and illustrate the difference between static and networked media. The Lonely Planet guide is a good place to start. But, of course, it suffers from the limitations of being a paper guide.