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 11 Watch Accessing Online Accounts After a Loved One’s Death Accessing Online Accounts After a Loved One’s Death… Continue watching
Mar 11 What Happens to Our Digital Lives When We Die? EmbedVideo(5925, 482, 304); PBS NewsHour spoke with Ricky Rash about his struggle to gain access to his son's online accounts after the 15-year-old's death in 2011. Eric Rash had a bright future, so when he committed suicide at… Continue reading
Feb 25 Watch Does the White House Use Social Media to Circumvent the Press? Does the White House Use Social Media to Circumvent the Press?… Continue watching
Feb 25 Weigh In: What Would YOU Ask the President? Video courtesy of the White House YouTube channel. Updated, 10:45 p.m. Monday's Daily Download segment examined the White House's use of social media to bypass the filter of the traditional press. Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn of… Continue reading
Feb 15 Watch Student Athletes Urged to Monitor Social Media Presence Students investigate how social media practices and youth sports are connected. Continue watching
Feb 12 Join Us for a State of the Union Google Hangout By Christina Bellantoni, News Desk Before President Obama makes his State of the Union address tonight, join PBS NewsHour for a Google Hangout hosted by politics editor Christina Bellantoni. She'll speak with a group of journalists on what they expect to hear in tonight's speech… Continue reading
Feb 11 Watch What’s Not to Like? Using the Facebook ‘Like’ to Connect, Commune, Endorse What's Not to Like? Using the Facebook 'Like' to Connect, Commune, Endorse… Continue watching
Feb 11 Have You Given Up On Facebook? Updated, Feb. 12 7:33 a.m. Monday's Daily Download segment explored what it means to "like" something on Facebook, and the trend of people who choose to ditch using Facebook altogether. Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn of Daily Download joined… Continue reading
Feb 08 Winter Storm ‘Nemo’ to Bring Record Levels of Snow (and Disney References) Handout photo by NOAA/REUTERS. In what is supposed to be a storm for the history books, New England braces itself for a major winter storm. The National Weather Service is predicting the storm to hit the Northeast Friday night… Continue reading