The Twitter Effect: The Impact of Social Media on the News Networked technologies like Twitter "disrupt established concepts of communication, prevailing notions of space and time and the distance between public and private spheres," (Noah, A., & Weiss, A. S., 2010). As a result, journalism is not just in the process of negotiating a shift to a digital media environment, but more significantly to a networked one. (Hermida, A., 2012). As an increasing amount of people have gained access to the internet
witnessed a growth of substantial research. Even though there were some attempts to study sentiment analysis previously, the growing interest in the research area came up as a result of the eruption of user generated data in online discussion forums and reviews and most especially social media. According to Pang and Lee (2008), the research of sentiment analysis can be broadly classified into two main areas: research investigating the polarity of subjective text and research evaluating the objectivity of
NAME OF PROJECT: THE EFFECTS OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA ON RELATIONSHIP TRENDS BY: SARAI WANJIKU NJENGA I.D # : 621920 A RESEARCH PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE JOURNALISM PROGRAM IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE COURSE JRN 3024 COMMUNICATION RESEARCH USIU JOURNALISM PROGRAM 2011 DECLARATION I hereby declare that this is my original work. It has not been presented to any other institution for any other purpose. Name : Sarai Wanjiku Njenga Signature : ____________________
Title of Paper-Lacunae in Laws protecting children against online sexual abuse in India By Karnika Seth, Advocate (BA (Eng Hons), LL.B (D.U), LL.M (King’s College ,U.K) Phd. Research Scholar (NIU) Abstract In the digital age, there has been an unprecedented growth in both the use and dependency on internet, particularly among children populace. Whereas increased use of information technology by children has some positive dimensions, there is a glaring flipside, the concern over growing child
mainstream media organisations, to levels of civic engagement, debates about quality, trust and accuracy, and to discussions about the practice and future of journalism itself. KEYWORDS: social media; social networks; blogs; user generated content; online; newspapers; broadcasting; future journalism; Facebook; Twitter 3 1. Framing the debate Ten years ago, an influential McKinsey report1 concluded that new technologies were set to increase our capacity to interact by a factor of between two