Social Media Transforms Debate Viewership As she gears up for this years election, Center College student Kelly Bolton, who's on the campus of the vice presidential debate, is getting political updates not from television or traditional news sources,...
Social Media Drives Publicity in Trayvon Martin Case Across the United States, African Americans mobilized in memory of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, and in protest over the fact that the man who shot him had initially avoided criminal charges. Early o...
TechnologyReport-SyrianCitizenJournalistsUseSocialMediatoSpreadNewsRestrictedby This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Social media networks have come to play an important part in the political unrest in Syria. The Syrian government barre...
Social Media Tracks Haiti's Cholera Epidemic Public health systems may be losing their monopoly on data about outbreaks of disease. Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Childrens Hospital Boston found that news reports and social media can also...
THIS IS AMERICA - Social Scientists Rethink City Living SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we tell you why an economist has written a...
Social Media Impacts Retailer Decisions When New York resident Lauren Todd saw a photo of the Im too pretty to do homework T-shirt on Facebook last August, she was so annoyed, she started a petition on the social action website Change.org. It was out...
Moscow Protests Get Legs with Social Media A Moscow march to protest election fraud unexpectedly drew tens of thousands of people on Saturday. With 40 percent of Russian adults online, many say social media, including the Russian social networking si...
Social Scientists Rethink Role of City Big cities are vibrant hubs for culture and industry, or dirty, congested, impersonal crime-ridden warrens. As the world population surpasses seven billion, economists, environmentalists and social scientists ar...
Haiti's First Lady Champions Social Causes Sophia Martelly, the wife of Haiti's new president, Michel Martelly, is juggling the care of four children and a change of lifestyle from when she was simply the wife of a popular musician, her husband's pre...
GeographyMeetsSocialMediaonGeosocialSites Theres a well-worn phrase in real estate: location, location, location, meaning that where a property is located, alone, means more than anything else when it comes to assessing its value. But location is get...