A Great Guide on How to Cite Social Media Using Both MLA and APA styles
You’ll probably find this useful at some point.
Man, where was this chart when I was in library school?
This may be more for writing papers than articles, but you never know when it might come in handy.
18th April 2013
Reblogged From rosieg925
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Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_NYU)
I was going to make a post basically saying this same thing a few minutes ago, but got disillusioned with it. JR was able to put it simpler and better than I could have. -A
Fox Nation needs to lay off the egg nog.
By Jack Stuef
During the storm last night, user @comfortablysmug was the source of a load of frightening but false information about conditions in New York City that spread wildly on Twitter and onto news broadcasts before ConEd, the MTA, and Wall…
How One Well-Connected Pseudonymous Twitter Spread Fake News About Hurricane Sandy
by Andrew Kaczynski
The twitter user @comfortablysmug is one of a handful of pseudonymous Manhattan professionals who keep their widely-followed Twitter voices separate from their careers. His bio describes him as “My Interests: Finance, Gin, Politics, Books, Food, Fine Clothing, Meeting Strangers #Mitt2012” and links to a Romney campaign donation page of the sort that credits bundlers for the cash they’ve brought in.
His 6,000 followers include political and business reporters, and he’ll occasionally tweet of getting a drink with Business Insider’s Joe Wiesenthal; once with BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith.
And in the chaos around Hurricane Sandy, he veered into new territory: Trying to trick his media followers, and their followers and readers in turn, with fake news. He reported, falsely, on a total blackout in Manhattan, on a flood on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and other things that didn’t happen.
Two of his tweets garnered more than 500 retweets. One drew a rebuke from ConEd’s official Twitter account.
Twitter’s self-correction mechanism — rebukes and rebuttals from knowledgeable sources — shut down each rumor, but not until at least one, the flood claim, had bled widely into the television media.
@comfortablysmug didn’t respond immediately to an inquiry, via Twitter direct message, as to his motives.
My Storify of the immediate aftermath following Rep. Akin’s remarks.
On the riveting topic of Twitter, I recently stumbled upon a rather interesting piece from Complex magazine’s website. It appears, rolling on from Facebook’s recent release of its phony accounts stats, that the website Status People Fake Follower Check has created a quick-n-easy…
Kind of a fun, Social Media Monday here. What was your count, Journos?
This week, alternative rock’s bible, SPIN magazine, announced that it would eliminate the standard short album review from the magazine (and web site) in order to “reinvent the album review.” 21 staffers and freelancers will assess 1,500 albums over the course of the year, exclusively via single 140-character posts on Twitter.
If Tweets replace blurbs will people start believing there’s nothing more to say? We wanted to test whether 140 characters could substitute for, say, 200 words. So our critic, Ann Powers, performed what we’re dubbing a “magic capsule” test: she picked two of the nine tweets @SPINReviews has published so far and let them marinate in the watery environment of her brain to see what they’d look like as conventional short reviews.—Jacob Ganz
via Are 140-Character Reviews The Future Of Music Criticism?
As an A&E Writer/Editor and constant music fan, this really worries and angers me. Not only is it attempting to condense a musician’s hard work to less than 140 characters (after the band name, album name, writer’s initials and numerical value out of 10), it is also foreshadowing the death of the album review. Lester Bangs is rolling over in his grave.
It’s strange to think of the Onion having a social media gaffe. But the consensus seems to be that this was in poor taste.
Edit: The Onion’s Twitter Account
Update: The Onion was not hacked. Here’s the story.
