Archive: twitter

• Twitter: Secret Weapon or Overhyped?

  By ekm45 December 19, 2013

  This is a golden moment for Twitter. Its IPO just began trading and is currently trading up. The platform has shown ongoing user growth, with over 500 million users worldwide. It is touted as an excit

  Categories: 2014, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Hashtag, marketing, social media, twitter

• 7 Years of Twitter: The Potential Power of the Many as Watchdog

  By gnovisguest April 12, 2013

  Twitter recently had its 7th anniversary. Most of the reflection on Twitter’s impact on the political world has focused on its ability to engender or enhance scandals, such as Anthony Weiner’s provoca

  Categories: 2013, The Gnovis Blog Tags: politics, twitter, weapons of mass destruction

• Tweeting Leaders

  By Kgirginova November 3, 2012

  CEOs shape and share the vision of their organization with the world at large--a task traditionally accomplished through controlled communication channels such as mission statements and annual report

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: CEOs who tweet, open leadership, organizational communication, organiztaions, social media, tweeting CEOs, twitter

• Are you on [insert social network here]? OMG it's amazing.

  By Relliott March 28, 2012

    This time last year I remember that, within the span of about a week, it seemed as though everyone I knew was hooked into the latest gaming/social media fad: Words With Friends.  A game played on s

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: applications, draw something, facebook, games, google, google plus, linkedin, networking, online, pinterest, social network, technology, twitter, words with friends

• Two-Step Tweets: Teaching an Old Framework New Tricks

  By jhubanks@gmail.com November 14, 2011

  As media effects scholarship has evolved over the decades, media has always been understood to perform an important and influential function in society. Questions of whom media influence, with what e

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: comm theory, communication theory, culture industry, facebook, hypodermic model, identity, influence, lasswell, media studies, occupy oakland, Occupy Wall Street, online influence, opinion makers, political communication, politics, public sphere, social media, technological determination, technology, tweets, twitter, two-step flow

• Media Mash-up: When Old and New Worlds Collide

  By jhubanks@gmail.com October 4, 2011

  I’ve got this idea in my head. Maybe you’ll bear with me as I try putting it into words. The line separating traditional ‘old’ media from social ‘new’ media is blurring. Once distinct, the two forms

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: @washingtonpost, arab spring, bbc, CNN, egypt, facebook, libya, new media, New York Times, nyt, nytimes, revolution, social media, twitter, wapo, Washington Post