Journalism Blogs: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
The Spring 2009 issue of Newspaper Research Journal had two articles on blogging that seemed to send very different messages. The first, by former SIUC student Brad Schultz and former Texas Tech and SIU colleague Mary Lou Sheffer, examined how newspaper managers viewed blogs. The managers had a generally positive attitude toward blogs, saying they [...]
Red Media, Blue media: Internet and polarization
The Battle between Blue State and Red State ideals is being played out on the lawns on Lubbock in advance of today’s election deciding whether or not packaged liquor can be sold in convenience stores throughout the city or remain restricted to the Las Vegas style strip (minus the gambling, prostitutes, and entertainment) located on [...]
Do Online Journalists Get it?
In conjunction with the release of the gloomy State of the News Media 2009 report, the Project for Excellence in Journalism also interviewed 300 members of the Online News Association. The news from online journalists, not surprisingly, was not as bleak as from legacy journalists: They reported less bloodletting on the online staff, they were [...]
All atwitter over Twitter
My colleague Sam Bradley is a Twitter evangelist, using it regularly to follow the news, connect with people in the advertising industry and to stay connected with friends. I am just a member of the flock, using it to follow some of the leading social media researchers, giving an a occasional update and frankly using [...]
Agenda Setting in the Internet Age
Agenda setting was suppose to be a theory that would suffer a serious hit from the emergence of the Internet. A basic assumption of the theory is that those who don’t receive information either first hand through direct experience or second hand through talking with others would need to rely on the media to tell [...]
Nothing is rotten in the state of Denmark
I am going to take a break for at least a week from blogging to attend the Association of Internet ResearchersInternet Research 9.0 conference. I will report on the conference when I return to Lubbock. Vi ses!