Topic: Social Media
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Maps
How Twitter Is Changing the Geography of Communication
New research suggests that location plays a smaller role now in who we talk to and what we talk about.
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Maps
Researchers Can Tell How Healthy Your Neighborhood Is From Your Facebook Page
Tracking obesity rates based on your interest in outdoor fitness, health and wellness, and television.
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Videos
Holiday Car Ads in the Era of Millennials Buying Fewer Cars
Lexus takes aim at social media as a perceived deterrent to driving.
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Why Your Apartment Should Be on Facebook
A Cleveland start-up helps apartment complexes up their social media game.
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The Internet Is the New Town Hall and Soon Cities Will Be Listening
"Sentiment analysis" of social media could change the way you report potholes forever.
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Inside the Weird World of Tracking Gangs on Social Media
With gang members openly posting about their plans to commit violent acts on Facebook and YouTube, police departments nationwide find increased challenges and unique advantages.
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Olympics 2012
How Cranky Are Londoners?
With a Twitter-based mood-measuring lightshow displayed on the London Eye, we're about to find out.
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The Book-Burning Campaign That Saved a Public Library
A social media hoax outwitted an anti-tax group and galvanized voters in Troy, Michigan.
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Supporting Local Business with the Muscle of a 'Cash Mob'
At events all over the country, neighbors who want their money to stay local are swarming mom-and-pop shops.
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Democracy in America
Troy Mayor Comes Out as Anti-Gay, Again
Janice Daniels, the tea party mayor of Troy, Michigan, recently said something bad about homosexual people at a student forum on bullying and suicide. But what was it, exactly?
