Introduction. This study examined the selection and sharing of news stories from Delicious, a popular social bookmarking site, in order to identify the most frequently consulted news information sources and news topics. Method. Targeting US-specific sources through initial computer screening of URLs, we employed content analysis to further analyse story topics and sources that were unclassified...

The wave of new media technology is sweeping across the globe. Given its speed of information dissemination and retrieval, it is relevant to explore how it can be used to manage corporate-stakeholder relations, engagement, and communication. This is because communication is an effective medium for managing relations (and crisis). In the post-conflict era in Niger delta region of Nigeria that ha...

This paper introduces a new methodology for implementing social media monitoring into an important stage of the innovation process within the automotive industry — the prototype stage. The information gathered on social media channels was used for project management, quality management and idea-generation purposes in order to support the parallel development of future generations of electric ve...

Using the conceptual lenses of information overload and sense making, this paper investigates the process of contemporary news consumption based on the qualitative content analysis of 112 interview transcripts from a diverse cross-section of US news consumers. We offer theoretical clarification of factors influencing news consumption and the role of social media in devising strategies for addre...

In this paper, we discuss the efforts underway at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in understanding the dynamics of multi-party discourse across a number of communication modalities, such as email, instant messaging traffic and chat data. Only by understanding how individuals communicate through these new media technologies can we hope to successfully design and implement the social me...

The popularity of new media channels in recent decade has offered fertile ground for electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) communication. By enabling interaction between organizations and customers, eWOM communication may increase organizations’ capability of customer engagement (CE). Despite the acknowledged importance of eWOM as an important new channel for customer engagement in tourism industry, ...

Bluetooth is a wireless technology, which is able to carry data over a distance less than 10 meters. Despite of the short range Bluetooth has some properties, which gives it potential to solve some inconveniences related to recent innovations in media technology. The focus of this paper is in new distribution techniques of mass media.

This paper and demo describes our approach and initial results of using David Hockney’s work as a model for practice-based arts research in a digital imaging class. Hockney’s innovative photocollages of the 1980sdemonstrate an artist thinking in media, while the Hockney-Falco thesis promotes discussion on the relationship artists have with technology. Using Hockney’s photocollage work as a prac...

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Fashion as a phenomenon cannot be understood independently of the visual images and designed presentations that convey the content and forms of fashion. With the breakthrough of the digital media in the 2000s we were introduced to new ways of communicating and staging fashion where the blog in particular has established a new media culture for the distribution and exchange of potential fashion-...