Underage users on Instagram should prepare for new restrictions on their accounts.
Social media has provided athletes with a platform to share their stories, build communities and maintain visibility between the Paralympics.
Should athletes partner with energy drink companies?
Underage users on Instagram should prepare for new restrictions on their accounts.
Social media has provided athletes with a platform to share their stories, build communities and maintain visibility between the Paralympics.
Should athletes partner with energy drink companies?
For the past six weeks, Social Situation host Sean Power has asked his guests who they’d recommend go on our Twitter ‘must follow’ list. Here’s the complete list.
In the final episode of the first season of the Social Situation , Sean Power speaks to Greg Jericho, the face of @GrogsGamut.
After years of smoking, Michael Nolan used social networking to beat his addiction.
This week’s guest on the Social Situation is ABC radio producer Jess Hill, who speaks to Sean Power about how she used Twitter to report on the Arab Spring.
A feature by John Bergin about how one of Australia’s most dramatic political showdowns unfolded on Twitter has been chosen by Giulio Di Giorgio to join our list of the ‘100 articles’ every journalist should read.
This week’s guest on the Social Situation is Amber MacArthur, one of the world’s most sought-after keynote speakers on social media. She tells Sean Power how important it is for student journalists to have an online presence.
Are we closet stalkers? In her regular column, Cat Brooke asks whether people are gathering too much information on Facebook.
This week’s guest on the Social Situation is American online news producer Matthew Keys, who chats with Sean Power about online ethics when breaking news through social media.
A social media slip up take centre stage in an amusing cautionary tale by the American sports columnist Bill Simmons. The piece has been chosen by Jonathan Wilkinson to take its place in our list of the ‘100 articles’ every journalist should read about journalism.
In the second episode of a six-part series, Sean Power speaks to Reuters’ social media editor, Anthony De Rosa.
Cat Brooke goes on a technology ban to find out if it is taking over and replacing our real life experiences.
We’re a technologically savvy lot, but the growth of social networking sites may not provide us with a Web 2.0 utopia. Renee Tibbs listens in on our private business.
Thought Gossip Girl was just a fictional book-turned-TV-series? Think again. Copycat Facebook pages have sprung up posting salacious gossip about teenagers and Lydia Sawtell says the social networking site isn’t to blame.
This morning, La Trobe Journalism welcomes Sky News Australia’s Digitial News Director John Bergin as guest lecturer for the Broadcast Journalism class.
La Trobe University’s Lawrie Zion will join Renee Barnes and James Tuckerman as a panelist at the 2011 Freelance Conference in Melbourne today.
Congratulations to final-year La Trobe Journalism student Kara Irving for her front-page exclusive in The Age today. Another La Trobe journalism student, Angus Monfries, also has a piece published in today’s edition.
A recent warning about the perils of journalists using Twitter as a forum to comment on each other’s work has been selected by Khairun Hamid to be included in our ‘100 articles’ project.
Can short-form social media stimulate an appetite for long-form journalism? A British journalist is showing that it can, as James Rosewarne explains in this selection for our ‘100 articles’ project.
The latest installment of the horror film franchise, Scream, is cringeworthy and at times predictable, but Corina Thorose says it’s still worth seeing.
We hear a lot of different things about the impact of social media. In this recent presentation, upstart editor-in-chief Lawrie Zion discusses its role in building the upstart audience.
