{"id":792,"date":"2012-09-21T20:48:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T03:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/?p=792"},"modified":"2021-06-22T18:44:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T22:44:39","slug":"new-social-media-vibrate-the-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/2012\/09\/21\/new-social-media-vibrate-the-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"New Social Media Vibrate the News World"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s the value of the new social media tools? Throughout the short time of their existence, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+ and Tumblr have attracted lots of attention from and impacted the news world. Richard Koci Hernandez, a University of California, Berkeley professor, upheld the social photography value of Instagram, saying it provides a free billboard to advertise his photos, which helps him land jobs at big media.<\/p>\n

To answer the concern of keeping up with all the new tools, Farai Chideya, a journalism professor at New York University, said the key is to be realistic and let things go because it’s simply impossible to master everything. But learning from the masters in a specific social medium always helps.<\/p>\n

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Richard Koci Hernandez, assistant professor of new media at UC Berkeley. (Photo by Shako Liu)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n