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Granny 2.0
Posted by Kate Nacy in New Media & Web 2.0 on January 2, 2011
Pew research shows growing number of seniors dive into social networking.
She bakes a mean gingerbread and started a fibromyalgia support group on Facebook: She is Granny 2.0. Seniors are typically paper-readers and six o’clock news-watchers. They’re large consumers of media. Now, however, they’re ambling into the fun-filled world of virtual friending, poking and farming. They’re ripping it up on social networking sites. Grandkids of the world, take heed.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project recently found that individuals 74 and older represent the most Read the rest of this entry »
Fewer Papers, More Web
Posted by Piero Macri in New Media & Web 2.0 on October 16, 2010
Seventy minutes is the average time an American citizen devotes to the news.
The Web grows, newspapers lose readers, radio and TV remain consistent. In the last 20 years news sources for Americans have changed significantly. According to research conducted by the Pew Research Center, traditional media – radio, TV and newspapers – are on average used by a smaller percentage of people than in the past. If at the beginning of the nineties TV was the primary source of news for 68 percent of people, since the beginning of the 21st century that percentage has decreased to 56 percent and settled.
News Across Media Platforms
Posted by Kate Nacy in New Media & Web 2.0 on June 9, 2010
We know the differences between YouTube and the Financial Times are voluminous.
And yes, we’ve also learned that people are doing more with YouTube than searching for videos of spastic housecats swinging from ceiling fans. But what’s behind these differences between social media and the traditional press? And what exchanges take place among various news mediums, old and new? In a recent study, “How Blogs and Social Media Agents Relate and Differ from the Traditional Press,” the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism gathered a year of data on the top news stories discussed and linked to Read the rest of this entry »
State of the News Media 2010
Posted by Kate Nacy in Ethics & Quality on March 17, 2010
The Project for Excellence in Journalism releases State of the News Media 2010 report.
The comprehensive report provides deep analysis of 2009′s media situation, assessing the status of newspapers, magazines, network news, cable television, and online sites. This year’s report contains several new features, including a Year in the News Interactive, Who Owns the News Media a multi-dimensional directory of the more than 120 companies that own news properties in the United States, a new survey of the economic attitudes of online news consumers, a content analysis of blogs and social media and a detailed analysis of the online behavior of visitors to news websites.
For more about the report see PEJ.






