COM’s PRLab works for the Boston Marathon
COM’s PRLab, an agency run by students majoring in public relations, provided media relations and special event support services this year for the Boston Athletic Association’s Boston Marathon. This...
View ArticleCan you tweet your way to a job?
Peter Shankman (CGS’92, COM’94), media entrepreneur and founder of Help a Reporter Out, a website that connects journalists and sources, sits down to talk about the role of social networking in our...
View ArticleSocial Media Day at COM a success
By Kendall Salter (’13) Boston University’s College of Communication helped celebrate Mashable’s Social Media Day with its own event on Saturday, June 30. As part of the third annual international...
View Article@comugrad wins Shorty Award
The College of Communication’s undergraduate Twitter handle @comugrad won the award for “Social Media’s Best Barnes & Noble College” in the sixth annual Shorty Awards. This category honors...
View ArticleStudy links social media use with dissatisfaction among couples
Time spent on social network sites such as Facebook could be an indicator of a failing marriage, according to a team of researchers that included Dr. James Katz, Feld Professor of Emerging Media at...
View ArticleSocial Media’s Limited Social Impact
Tweets, reposts and shares can help a cause become hip, but do little to help it in the long run When Lei Guo, an assistant professor of communication, spends a day on social media, she’s not playing...
View ArticleLei Chen ’15, Social Media Coordinator
Since she graduated from the Emerging Media Studies program this summer, Lei has been working in the social media marketing field for Genesys, an IT company. Her work focuses on content curation, data...
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Kathleen Slocum ’11, Liberty Mutual
Associate Consultant, Public Relations, Liberty Mutual What has your career/education path been like since graduating? While completing my Masters at COM, I joined Liberty Mutual Insurance on the...
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BU students cover New Hampshire Primary
Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders shakes hands with his supporters at Concord High School after announced as the winning Democratic candidate in New Hampshire primary. (Marwa Morgan/BUNS) BU News...
View ArticleStudy: Social media helps perpetuate misinformation about antimicrobial...
People who are active in posting and sharing information on social media can perpetuate misinformation about antimicrobial resistance (AMR), according to a team of researchers from the Division of...
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Jacob Groshek Talks Science on Social Media
Photo by Cydney Scott Internet commentators love to shout their opinions, but new research shows that the loudest might not know what they’re talking about. Jacob Groshek, a Boston University College...
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Dean Fiedler Talks “Fake News” on WGBH News
© 2010 Boston University Photography COM Dean Tom Fiedler appears on WGBH’s Beat the Press with Emily Rooney, Dan Kennedy, Callie Crossley and Jonanna Weiss to share his insight about the surgent rise...
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Fighting Extremist Social Media with Social Media
Steve Quigley’s COM class has built SAVE from the ground up as a social media campaign to help prevent extremist groups from recruiting young people online. For many troubled young people, the path to...
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COM Student Takes Part in Ultimate Frisbee Team Feminism Campaign
Jacki Salustro (COM’17) As the sun was setting during a late afternoon practice of the BU men’s and women’s Ultimate Frisbee teams last month, Teddy Kahn (CAS’17), vice president of the men’s team—the...
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The Search for Truth in the Age of Social Media
As principal investigators on a yearlong Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant, Juliet Floyd, a CAS professor of philosophy, and James E. Katz, a COM professor of emerging media, will bring together...
View ArticleThe Face of Facebook
Anthony Harrison has a big challenge. As director of corporate media relations for social media giant Facebook, he’s part of a global communications team that represents the company through good times...
View ArticleWhat You Read and Watch Is Changing Media Forever
Like most stories about data science, this one begins with a very big number: 150 million. That’s roughly how many people, worldwide, subscribe to Netflix. And because Netflix knows what all of those...
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Seeing Through the Smoke
Search #swishersweets on Twitter and Instagram and you’ll see hundreds of thousands of posts about the popular flavored cigar brand. On TikTok, thousands of videos show users smoking, singing about...
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Calculating Media Influence
The mosquitoes are fighting—and biting—back. After years of being flooded with insecticides, the tiny, nibbling flies are becoming resistant to our chemical defenses. So scientists are testing an...
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