Knight Foundation Grant to NewsCloud for Social Media Research in Facebook

[Jeff Reifman]

If you are interested in NewsCloud's Facebook client ... this will interest you. At the end of this study, we'll release our Facebook client source code. More info http://www.newscloud.com/research.

New Facebook Applications to Engage Youth in News

Knight Foundation Grant to Support Research Highlighting Social Networking's Impact on Teens and Young Adults

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL – University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow and Seattle-based news aggregator News Cloud will test new ways to engage youth in news and information by launching two social media publications on the popular social networking site Facebook. The project is being made possible by a $249,529 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

University researchers, led by Greenhow, will investigate how online social network sites like Facebook can engage youth in world events, build community and generate real world impact. Greenhow's previous work investigated the learning benefits of online social networking sites (MySpace , Facebook) for teenagers.

"Understanding how youth not only consume online information but manipulate, produce and talk through it for social and educational purposes will move us closer to understanding how to design and develop successful media-rich environments," Greenhow said. 

http://www.knightfoundation.org/news/press_room/knight_press_releases/detail.dot?id=339186

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