Family learns of student’s death on Facebook
The parents of a south Georgia college student first learned from Facebook that their daughter had been found dead in a dormitory study room shortly before Thanksgiving, reports…
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Twitter chats beckon to some graduate students
In olden, pre-Twitter days, graduate students traipsed around academic conferences meeting peers and mentors, reports U.S. News & World Report. But Twitter chats--or hashtags, the number signs indicating…
Teen takes educators to Twitter school
Fifteen-year-old Adora Svitak knows students nowadays “live, work and play” social media, Mashable reports.
Social media’s impact in the higher-ed classroom
Higher education’s use of social media in the classroom is expanding and changing, with younger faculty members leading the way and influencing how tools such as Facebook, Twitter,…
Watch: Twitter boosts college grades and class engagement
Twitter has been credited with — and blamed for — a lot of things. Supporters claim it fueled the Green Revolution in Iran and helped the Arab Spring,…
A&T professor is taking debate online
A professor at N.C. A&T is using social media to create a group setting online, where participants can react as the presidential debate unfolds.
Disruptions: Seeking privacy in a networked age
A pulled pork taco hovered about four inches from my mouth when my phone impolitely interrupted me, the New York Times reports. “Hey, I see you’re having people…
The typical Twitter user is…
Twitter’s endless funnel of data is producing an equally endless series of studies — including on Twitter itself, the Washington Post reports. The latest study offers fun tidbits…
Number of college applications affected by social media triples
College applicants shouldn’t shut down their various social media accounts, experts said, but they should heavily edit their online comments, photos, and videos, as thousands of applications were…
Calif. governor signs bill to boost students’ online privacy
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a pair of privacy bills making it illegal for employers and colleges to demand access to social media accounts.