As Faculty Finally Embrace Twitter, Students Drop the Service
Posted on Wednesday, May 19th 2010
Tags: academic, classes, faculty, media, networking, social, technology, twitter
Tags: academic, classes, faculty, media, networking, social, technology, twitter
by Alexander Riche Freelance Writer In a surprise move last month, the Library of Congress announced its intent to acquire all posts since March 2006 from social media site Twitter. The reaction was swift. Markus Trinion, a doctoral student doing his dissertation on faculty attitudes toward technology, described his frustration at the venerable institution’s surprise [...]
College Newspapers Self-Report High Levels of Cleverness
Posted on Wednesday, January 27th 2010
Tags: campus, clever, college, humor, media, newspaper, overconfidence, radio, smug
Tags: campus, clever, college, humor, media, newspaper, overconfidence, radio, smug
The National College Measuring Service (NCMS) reports that students participating in a campus media club like the college newspaper or radio station self-report being 16.8% more clever than their peers. The only group self-reporting higher levels of cleverness are the students who consider themselves too cool for joining news media or reading books. In reality, [...]


