President Obama is not the only social-savvy candidate in the 2012 presidential elections. In his race to the primaries, Republican candidate Newt Gingrich has also stopped by Pinterest to delight his supporters with campaign tour photos, artsy Instagram shots, and cover art from his books.
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The phone-hacking scandal at and subsequent shuttering of News Corp.-owned British tabloid News of the World dominated news links shared via Twitter for the week of July 4-8, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
Other than the extreme cases of one-on-one landslides, like John F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Richard Nixon, there is really no scientific method of determining the victor of a political debate, so why not use Facebook likes?
CNN will host its first New Hampshire Republican Presidential debate Monday at 8 p.m., and social media will be woven throughout its coverage of the event.
By the time you read this, Newt Gingrich may have already dropped out of the Presidential race. This will happen at some point in the future, and there are many reasons why, but the most interesting and surely novel reason for the failure to obtain his party’s nomination for President of the United States is the role and power of social media. For whatever brilliance one believes Mr. Gingrich to possess, politically or otherwise, he does not have the experience and capacity to connect and effectively use social media to his advantage; and that will be his downfall. Read more
A gay rights activist threw glitter over former House Speaker and 2012 GOP Presidential candidate at a book signing in Minneapolis and the video is climbing the YouTube charts.
Bloggers were very budget-conscious during the week of Feb. 28-March 4, while Twitter users were focused on that other social-networking site, Facebook, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was TV New Zealand footage of the aftermath of the Feb. 21 earthquake in Christchurch, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism New Media Index.
News links about the budget accounted for 37 percent of those shared via the blogosphere, followed by: a tie for second place between the death of the last remaining American World War I veteran, Frank W. Buckles, and Fox News Channel’s suspensions of contributors Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum because both were considering runs for the presidency in 2012, each at 10 percent; and another tie, at 7 percent, between a call by House Democrats for Republican leaders to investigate a Washington, D.C.-based law firm and three technology contractors, and the Supreme Court ruling protecting the First Amendment right of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church to conduct anti-gay protests at military funerals.
Facebook accounted for 19 percent of Tweeted news links, followed by: Apple at 17 percent; the Academy Awards at 10 percent; the unrest in Libya, also at 10 percent; and stories about a March 22 event where Samsung will likely announce the new version of its Galaxy Tab tablet, at 6 percent.
Former CNN anchor Frank Sesno has been named the host and managing editor for “Planet Forward,” a Web and TV collaboration using social media to advance the discussion on energy and climate change.
“Planet Forward,” has both user-generated content and commissioned pieces. In addition to the Website, on April 15, “Plant Forward” will produce a special for PBS with White House Energy and Climate Adviser Carol Browner.
Contributors to the site include Newt Gingrich, Ted Danson and Christine Todd Whitman.
The project is headquartered at The George Washington University along with three other schools: Roger Williams University, Middlebury College, and The University of Nebraska.
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