SyndicateMizzou Video Podcast

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Suraj Commuri - Marketing Mavericks

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:43:09 GMT

"Marketing Mavericks"—people who exercise a new kind of power in the online world by influencing consumer behavior online. How people use this online information from specific purchasing websites (such as Amazon.com), where people post reviews of products and where other people read those reviews as part of their decision-making process. Research methods: using the internet to unobtrusively gather data about people’s real behavior, prior to more direct investigation by questionnaire or interview.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Betty Winfield - The Internet and Social Capital

Wed, 17 May 2006 18:52:38 GMT

Is there a decline in social capital in the U.S.? Winfield discusses how the internet may increase political involvement in the democratic process.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Betty Winfield - Moveon.org

Wed, 17 May 2006 18:54:34 GMT

Winfield discusses the use of Moveon.org as a case study of an Internet site that increases social capital.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Wayne Wanta - The evolutionary stages of media

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:35:04 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Wayne Wanta - Multitasking on the Internet

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:35:23 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Wayne Wanta - A call for more comprehensive research on the Internet

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:35:45 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Ted Tarkow - The Benefits of Online Emotional Disclosure

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:50:59 GMT

####Kylie L. Woodbury, Psychological Sciences ####Laura King, Mentor This study addressed two questions: 1) Can written emotion disclosure over the internet produce psychological benefits? 2) Does writing about positive and negative topics produce the same benefits? Participants were randomly assigned to write (for twenty minutes, once a week, for three weeks) about one of three topics: a negative life event, a meaningful event in the past week, or a non-emotional control topic. Participants completed measures of depression and subjective well-being two months later. Results indicate that writing online does produce benefits: negative emotional disclosure leads to decreases in depressive symptoms and positive emotional disclosure leads to heightened psychological well-being.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Esther Thorson - Thorson’s research and the process of developing a model

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:19:37 GMT

Finding a way to transform MU’s School of Journalism into a think tank for the news and advertising industry has been the main research goal for Esther Thorson, who serves as Professor, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, and Director of Research for the Reynolds Journalism Institute. Her first major effort, in collaboration with Margaret Duffy, was to address the news and advertising crisis caused by the “digital revolution,” reacting to the reality that newspaper and television audiences have been plummeting as consumers and advertisers alike are shifting toward the Internet and other new media technologies.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Esther Thorson - Using the Internet to advertise

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:34:39 GMT

_Internet Advertising: Theory and Research_, which Thorson co-edited with David W. Schumann (University of Tennessee) and now in its second edition, was the first book on Internet advertising. Its contributors are some of the most innovative scholars in the area of advertising and the Internet.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: José Garcia - Another recent event

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:30:45 GMT

Garcia and his colleagues across the state rely on “virtual meetings” over the Internet with extension agriculturalists to touch base about certain issues related to sustainable agriculture.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Christina Wells - The internet’s role in shaping public opinion

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:44:02 GMT

The internet is still an unknown quantity, says Wells, and it needs to be studied. “Some have argued that people have great access to information because of the internet, and to some extent that’s true,” she observes. But many people, in fact, experience information overload. However, Wells cautions, “getting information and knowing whether it is true can be very difficult.” Moreover, people tend to search the internet with preconceived notions and, predictably, wind up reinforcing their existing beliefs rather than nuancing, challenging, or debunking them.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: SyndicateMizzou - Why was the Center for eResearch established?

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:43:10 GMT

The Center for the Studies in Oral Tradition, founded in 1986 by John Miles Foley, became the model for the Center for eResearch. The mission of the CeR is to bring together people from diverse fields doing innovative research on Internet or digital projects so that they might profit from the exchange of ideas.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: SyndicateMizzou - What was the motivation behind SyndicateMizzou?

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:44:38 GMT

Founder and director John Miles Foley explains the thinking behind the creation of SyndicateMizzou, with its mission to make research and creative activity occurring at MU accessible to the public on a 24/7/365 basis.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: SyndicateMizzou - Cooperative ventures between CSOT and CeR

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:44:27 GMT

John Miles Foley explains how the two centers—the Center for the Studies in Oral Tradition (est. 1986) and the newer Center for eResearch—are cooperative ventures: “All of our activities at both centers have in common the philosophy of sharing intellectual content (knowledge, art, ideas) across barriers…to make it as easy as possible for everyone in the world to participate.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Tina Bloom - Reaching the Previously Unreachable

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:17:13 GMT

Typically, health care providers and women’s advocates sit down with one woman at a time to evaluate her priorities. Bloom walks through the latest version of the web-based decision aid she has helped to develop as a way to reach more women and yet provide individualized treatment.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Tina Bloom - Using Pair-wise Comparisons

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:06:07 GMT

A unique feature of Bloom’s decision aid is the way it helps women to rank their priorities. “What we’re doing is pair-wise comparisons,” she explains. The woman uses a slider to compare different factors: feelings for her partner versus concerns for her children, concerns for her children versus privacy, and so forth. Each woman has a chance to weigh all of the important factors in her life, so that she can make the best decisions.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Miles Foley - The Pathways Project

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:28:58 GMT

The Pathways Project explores the comparison between OT (oral tradition) and IT (Internet technology), showing the similarities between these two network-based modes of navigation. When it's finished, there will be a paper book, Pathways of the Mind, as well as a website. The two methods of navigating through networks—oral tradition and the web—mimic the very way we think.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Miles Foley - Other Projects

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:29:48 GMT

Foley describes several other ongoing projects. One involves relocating the journal Oral Tradition from a conventional paper format to a new incarnation on the web in 2006. The decision to put the journal online stemmed from his commitment to forge a truly international conversation about this multidisciplinary field. In addition to the online journal, the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition has published three book series, comprising over 27 volumes. Foley is also involved in various collaborative research projects with scholars in Sardinia, Finland, China, Mexico, Indonesia, and the Basque Country.