Dec 23 iPhone cases featuring stolen, grisly war photos appear for sale on Amazon By Joshua Barajas "Who wants to buy a picture with a dead child on it," said Tomas van Houtryve, a National Geographic photographer, who recently surfaced several unauthorized Amazon phone case sales in a series of posts on Instagram. Continue reading
Oct 04 Watch Photographers use Instagram to paint more complete picture of life in Africa By PBS News Hour Instead of focusing on only hardships, a group of photographers living and working in Africa have started an Instagram campaign to show the rest of the world what life in Africa is really like. Saskia de Melker reports. Continue watching
Aug 16 Slogging through the Met, one Instagram post at a time By Hannah Yi "Museum Hack" aims to recruit a new wave of millennial visitors to museums in New York City. NewsHour Weekend tagged along at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to learn more. Here's our behind-the-scenes look at the highly-"Instagramable" tour. Continue reading
Aug 16 Poll: What do you think of millennial-friendly museum tours? By PBS News Hour NewsHour Weekend asks: How do you feel about the idea of making museums more appealing to millennials with unconventional museum tours?… Continue reading
Mar 27 Instagram reaches 200 million users, passes Twitter in U.S. mobile use By Colleen Shalby Mashable reported Wednesday that during a phone conference about Facebook’s purchase of virtual reality company Oculus VR, Mark Zuckerberg casually dropped the fact that Instagram now has two million users. Continue reading
Mar 22 Circumventing the Turkish Twitter crackdown By Hari Sreenivasan After the government in Turkey attempted to ban Twitter on Friday, social media savvy youth in the country almost immediately found ways around the block. Continue reading
Mar 12 Watch Daily Download: Assessing the Gap Between Twitter Follower Opinion and Poll Data Daily Download: Assessing the Gap Between Twitter Follower Opinion and Poll Data… Continue watching
Mar 01 Watch How 'Passionate Warrior' Breitbart Influenced Conservative Social Media Efforts For another discussion on how politicians use online tools, Jeffrey Brown is joined by journalists Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz of the Daily Download. They reflect on the impact of conservative "warrior" Andrew Breitbart, who was found dead Thursday, and… Continue watching