New Media Used to Attack Candidates

Four days ago, an interesting video was put together and launched on YouTube.  The video is comprised of spliced segments of news clips and sound bytes that highlight all of the problems and questions raised with Alexi Giannoulias and his family’s bank, Broadway Bank.  Giannoulias was a senior loan officer and VP of the bank, which [...]

Senate Campaigns and the New Media

The Illinois Follow Up:

My first post I made on this blog was in regards to the upcoming senate election in Illinois.  I posted: “As of February 4, 2010, Kirk has 2,705 followers and Giannoulias trails with 1,509 followers on Twitter.  Similarly, Kirk has 85 videos on YouTube and Giannoulias has 52 videos.”

As of today, March 30, [...]

Olympics and the New Media: Part 2

The Special Olympics is using new media not to share game highlights and scores or advertise the details for the next event, but to stop the use of the “R-word.”  The Special Olympics Organization and NMS are pulling out all the stops in their campaign to eliminate the “R-word” and  raise awareness because people do not [...]

SNL Pokes Fun at New Media

This most recent episode of SNL pokes fun at CNN and their use of new media.

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Copyright Issues with a Blog

UCLA has recently faced a law suit regarding digital media on one of their class sites. Since the blog has gone public today, I think it would be a good idea for everyone to read over the UCLA case:

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/UCLA-Pulls-Videos-From-Course/21013/

To follow that up, Professor Farrar provided us with some great websites regarding copyright issues, intellectual property, [...]

WSJ Blog

This is part of a weekly photo blog put out by the the Wall Street Journal.  The photos are remarkable.  Enjoy.

http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2010/02/19/photos-of-the-week-feb-15-feb-19/

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Olympics and the New Media: Part 1

What is one of the biggest things going on this week?  The Winter Olympics in Vancouver.  I have been specifically tracking USA Hockey because my cousin is the Director of Public Relations.  While following his articles and experiences online, I came across two interesting uses of new media (this is Part 1).

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gj7jOmI1suA" width="425" height="344" allowfullscreen="true" [...]

Pepsi Skips Out on Super Bowl TV Ads for Social Media

After 23 year consecutive years of Super Bowl advertising, Pepsi is abandoning traditional TV advertisements and focusing on social media.  However, Coca-Cola will still run advertisements during the Super Bowl, which reaches an audience of over 100 million viewers.  Check out the rest of the TIME magazine article Here.

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New Media Meets Senate Campaigns

Campaigns have always used different types of media to connect with voters, but after the recent special election in Massachusetts, it is clear that the role and types of media have changed in political campaigns.   In a recently published article from Federal Computer Week (an online magazine that focuses on strategy and business management [...]