Conversation is dead. Repetition and parallel talk rule Twitter.

Masterclass #storytelling as a legitimization tool: just humanize the story! Peer to peer trust @ana_adi #ecs15 pic.twitter.com/wiUbPEWfvm — TamaraGNS (@TamaraGNS) June 25, 2015 UPDATE: The article elaborating on the conference paper has now been published in the Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations. The full reference and link to the FULL article are below. …

Twitter for academia – how to cite a tweet

  It all started with calls for acknowledging the source of information shared as a means of providing some credibility checking for it. On the microblogging site Twitter several practices were in places from “via” to the more commonly agreed (and shorter) RT (re-tweet). Besides acknowledging a source, overweight the RT practice allows people (marketers/researchers) …

Social Media 4 Beginners: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WordPress tutorials

At the beginning of this month I wrote about the EuroBlog Social Media Award I have received for my use of social media for research and more. The University of the West of Scotland (where I pursue my PhD) picked up the news and shared it with the Scottish press. As a result of their …

Teaching Public Relations and Journalism with Paper.li and Storify

If you want your students to keep up with the latest news that the Internet is ranging about, anorexia tag related dailies generated on Paper.li are an appealing way to do. While the format will remind them of “old-school” newspapers, order the information within it will be fresh and up to date, complied from links …