History of social media: 2010 - part 3

A lot has happened this year that involved social media: site redesigns, lawsuits, casting calls, #TwitterProm, and even passion crimes. See below our selection of memorable moments in the evolution of social media in 2010, and please tell us what we forgot.

What other events would you include?

History of social media - part 2

More memorable events related to social media. And yes, that really happened!

2007
May 2007: SECOND LIFE. Sweden became the second country, after the Maldive Islands, to open an embassy in Second Life, the virtual world developed by Linden Lab. The Swedish Institute, which promotes Sweden’s image and culture, runs the embassy. More countries followed suit, including Serbia, Estonia, the Philippines, Albania and Israel. The embassies host virtual discussions and lectures about their countries.

History of social media: some highs and lows - part 1

Social media and social networking sites have been around for roughly 5-6 years, but already offer a rich trail of wow-did-that-really-happen moments. Journalism students studying social media have recently put on research hats and identified some of these moments. Listed below are some events that, for better or worse, are linked to the invasion of our lives by social media.

Online methods for online readers

By Klara Esposito

Interview with a journalist: Tanya Napold - Grad Journalism student/ News Roots Journalist Intern

Tanya is a graduate from USF, and is continuing her education in the Masters' program. She has been recently interning at NewsRoots, which is a community based online news paper. Tanya has a few articles published in NewsRoots. She has explained that Facebook has helped grow their online newspaper. 

Social media and journalism

By Anthony Nicholas

Over the past week I took some time to study the twitter accounts of some of my favorite bloggers on the web. And wouldn’t you know it I still know very little about their personal lives.