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News apps and data: A brief primer and overview
May 2013 primer on best practices, development tips and the value of digital news apps that allow for interactive visualizations of information.
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John Huey, former Time Inc. editor-in-chief: Research chat
May 2013 interview with Huey, former editor-in-chief of Time Inc. He gives advice to journalists and talks about the future of the news and his research on technology and media.
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Understanding data journalism: Overview of resources, tools and topics
2012 reference article surveying new sites, tools, and concepts that are part of the evolving field of data journalism.
Categories: Reporting, Research Tags: /
Does March Madness Lead to Irrational Exuberance in the NBA Draft?
2012 study on college player performance in the NCAA tournament and relationship with NBA success.
Categories: Culture Tags: /
Sports-related concussions and traumatic brain injuries: Research roundup
2012 literature review of research related to brain injuries in youth and professional sports.
Categories: Culture, Medicine Tags: ////
Research chat: Harvard’s Gary King on data, social science and media connections
2012 interview with Harvard University political scientist and data expert Gary King, on connections between social science and data journalism.
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Explaining Journalists’ Trust in Public Institutions Across 20 Countries
2012 study from the University of Munich and University Rey Juan Carlos on journalists in 20 countries and their levels of institutional trust.
Categories: Human Rights, News Media
“Social science done on deadline”: Research chat with ASU’s Steve Doig on data journalism
2012 interview between News21 collaborators ASU professor Steve Doig and Alex Remington, of Journalist's Resource.
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New Media and Conflict After the Arab Spring
2012 study by the United States Institute of Peace on the role of Twitter in the Arab Spring uprisings.
Categories: Digital Democracy, Global Tech, Human Rights, Social Media Tags:
Political Polarization on Twitter
Study by the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at Indiana University, Bloomington on Twitter user behavior before the 2010 U.S. midterm elections.
Categories: Campaign Media, Digital Democracy, Elections, Social Media Tags:
Cognitive Pitfall! Videogame Players Are Not Immune to Dual-Task Costs
2012 study by Duke, Penn State and Colby on how skilled video game players are not necessarily better multitaskers.
Categories: Culture, Internet Tags: //
Pew Research: Partisan Polarization Surges in Bush, Obama Years
2012 study by the Pew Research Center on shifts in American political values from 1987-2012.
Categories: Congress, Elections Tags: /
Therapeutic Value of Adolescents’ Blogging About Social-Emotional Difficulties
2012 study in Psychological Services on how blogging by teens can help well-being.
Categories: Internet, Social Media Tags: /
Economic Impact of Stadiums and Teams: The Case of Minor League Baseball
2011 study from the University of San Francisco on the effects of minor league baseball teams on community per capita incomes.
Categories: Business, Cities, Municipal Tags: /
Structural Diversity in Social Contagion: Studying Facebook
2012 study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the mechanisms that explain people joining and engaging with Facebook.
Categories: Internet, Social Media Tags:
Competition Among Memes in a World with Limited Attention
2012 study in Scientific Reports on social networks, viral promotion and the power of random viral possibilities.
Categories: Internet, Social Media Tags:
Exploring Russian Cyberspace: Digitally Mediated Collective Action and the Networked Public Sphere
2012 study by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society on Russia’s relative Internet freedom.
Categories: Citizen Action, Global Tech, Human Rights, Internet, Social Media Tags:
State of the News Media 2012
Study by the Pew Research Center on journalism and the present and future of news.
Categories: News Media Tags: ////
Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square
2012 study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the effects of social networks in the 2011 uprising in Egypt.
Categories: Conflicts, Global Tech, Human Rights, Internet, Security, Military, Social Media Tags:
U.S. Cities, Skills and Wages
2012 study by the University of Toronto on the relationship between the skills used in a job and the salary for that job in a city of a given size.
Categories: Cities, Jobs, Municipal Tags: /