Posts Tagged ‘Pew Research Center’

New Media Index: 2011 MTV Video Music Awards Top Twitter, YouTube

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The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards dominated Twitter and YouTube in the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Aug. 29-Sept. 2, while bloggers focused on a much more serious event in Hurricane Irene.

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New Media Index: Steve Jobs’ Resignation from Apple Was the Talk of Twitter

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The announcement that Steve Jobs was resigning as CEO of Apple was, by far, the subject of the most news links shared via Twitter during the week of Aug. 22-26, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

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New Media Index: Twitter Users Focus on Twitter’s Role in Debt Ceiling Agreement

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The Aug. 2 agreement to raise the debt ceiling for the United States was the subject of the most shared links via Twitter and blogs, but the Twitterverse took a different approach, focusing on the role that Twitter itself played in the process, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Aug. 1-5.

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New Media Index: Formula 1 TV Deal Starts Twitter’s Engines

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Twitter users rushed to express their displeasure with the deal by the British Broadcasting Corp. and Sky Sports to air Formula 1 auto races, as only one-half of the events will now be on free TV, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of July 25-29.

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New Media Index: Tweeted Links Surge on U.K. Phone Hacking Scandal

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The News Corp. News of the World phone hacking scandal marked its third consecutive week atop the list of the most tweeted news articles, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of July 18-22.

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New Media Index: Phone Hacking Scandal Still Tops Twitter, But Other Topics Narrow the Gap

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The phone-hacking scandal in the United Kingdom remained the subject of the most tweeted news links for the week of July 11-15, but it did not dominate as it did the previous week, accounting for 19 percent of links shared via Twitter, compared with 53 percent during the week of July 4-8, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

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New Media Index: News of the World Is News of the Twitterverse

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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.

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New Media Index: Hacking Stories Top Twitter

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Online security, or the lack thereof, dominated Tweeted news links for the week of June 20-24, specifically the hacking of Dropbox and the handiwork of LulzSec, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

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