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Nothing is private on the internet and people using social media networks should know that when they tweet or upload images on Facebook, you are publishing, says a panel of experts at today’s New Media Conference at HKU. “If you are not paying for it, you are the product being sold,” said Dan Gillmor,...
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“Our future communication networks will not only be by using a smartphone, but actually, people will acquire and physically share information via human mobility networks,” said James She, director of the HKUST NIE Social Media Lab and a visiting professor of engineering at HKU. Living in such a hi-tech world, the sharing of data...
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Tyson Wheatley, senior editor at CNN.com, started using Instagram because he want to share his everyday life in Hong Kong with his wife and kids who are in the US. It turns out his snaps bring him more than 60,000 followers. His shared his insights on the use of Instagram at the New Media...
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Stephen Quinn, digital development editor at the South China Morning Post, believes mobile journalism (MOJO) is the future direction of the media industry. As most of us have a smartphone, it makes life so much easier in many ways, but even more so for journalists who can finish and publish a video or slideshow report within 20...
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Public relations professionals do double duty every day, and it can be a dilemma, says Cindy Leggett Flynn, managing partner of Brunswick Group, speaking on a panel dealing with journalists’ relationships with PR. Leggett Flynn said they have to be gatekeepers of their clients’ information as well as try to be forthcoming with journalists....
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A China experts panel kicked off the 2012 AAJA-JMSC Media Conference, looking ahead at the upcoming leadership in Beijing, and human rights and economic issues in the Middle Kingdom. Phil Pan, assistant foreign editor at The New York Times, Stephen Schwartz, chief Asia economist of BBVA Research, and Joshua Rosenzweig,  a China human rights...
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