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KSU joins Snapchat

Noah Kastroll April 23, 2015

KSU joins Snapchat, launches new social media campaign from KentWired.com on Vimeo.

Professionals, students discuss effects of social media at YouToo Social Media Conference

Jessica Darling April 12, 2015

Students and media professionals gathered Friday, April 10, for the eighth annual YouToo Social Media Conference on Friday, April 10.The Kent State chapter and the Akron Professional chapter of Public...

Plunging temperatures heat tensions between KSU President and students on Twitter

Christina Godfrey February 24, 2015

Kent State President Beverly Warren responded to students' complaints via Twitter about walking to class in the below zero temperatures this winter. // [View the story "Plunging Temps Heat Tensions...

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Embracing social media strategies for job searches

Julianne Calapa February 20, 2015

Reviewing the social media profiles of job candidates remains a standard practice in the hiring process for many employers.Posting inappropriate photos, bad mouthing a previous employer and making discriminatory...

School of Communication Studies introduces Colloquium Series

Jessica Darling February 8, 2015

Jeffrey Child kicked off a new Colloquium Series on Friday, Feb. 6 sponsored by the School of Communication Studies.The Colloquium Series consist of three research presentations open to the public that...

Carley Hull is a senior news major. Contact her at chull9@kent.edu.

Opinion: The new social media: Snapchat brings creative content beyond Friday’s party

Carley Hull January 28, 2015

You might have noticed while you were going through your friends’ Snap stories of hooliganism and first world problems that a new feature has been added. It is called Discover, and it has the potential...

How social media can help you lose weight

Katie Leyton January 27, 2015

Social media, without a doubt, controls everything in our generation. It is how people communicate, how distant friends keep in touch and even how people challenge and support each other to reach their...

Students needed for Ebola media coverage information

Samantha Ickes November 17, 2014

Students, faculty and staff can voice their opinion of Ebola media coverage in a 15 to 20 minute survey until Dec. 15.Lindsey Myers, a communication and information doctoral student, created the survey...

This colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealed some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion. See PHIL 1832 for a black and white version of this image.

Survey researches reaction to Ebola virus

Samantha Ickes November 17, 2014

Students received emails from the [email protected] requesting participation in a survey “on the use of social media as a source of communication about Ebola” within the past few weeks.The survey will gather...

Kent State fashion world responds to bloody sweatshirt

Felicia Ssempala September 17, 2014

Urban Outfitters received social media backlash after stories broke about it selling a sweatshirt online referencing the May 4, 1970 shootings of four unarmed Kent State students by the Ohio National Guard.Urban...

Storify: Urban Outfitter’s red-stained KSU sweatshirt causes outrage on Twitter

September 15, 2014

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Opinion: Facebook experiment illustrates need for online users’ bill of rights

San Hose Mercury News September 3, 2014

The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Wednesday, July 2:———Creepy doesn’t begin to describe Facebook’s 2012 psychological experiment on 700,000 of its unwitting users....

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