Traditionally, political communication is understood as the space in which the applicant sends a mass message to the public with the intent to persuade their decision to vote. Under this logic, voters had only opinion polls and surveys as the most direct routes to provide feedback to candidates. With the impact of social networks on ...

There’s no doubt Instagram is a phenomenon in the social mobile world, not to mention the world of photography.  With more than 7 million downloads on iOS, 150 million photos published every month and 30 million+ registered users, Instagram is possibly consider the best photo-sharing app on Apple app store. Instagram for Android, which was released yesterday, already ...

Instagram, possibly the most popular photo sharing app on Apple app store of all time, has finally come to Android platform after more than a year of waiting and months of speculation. Instagram released the first version for Android users, which is already available on Google Play for free. On the launch of the Android ...

Dropbox, Box, Google Docs, Microsoft Office 365, SkyDrive, SugarSync … the list of cloud organizations seems to grow every day. But given the attractiveness of this concept, there’s also security risks of cloud-based services. Cloud computing has emerged in recent years to be one of the most interesting  developments in technology. When it comes to ...

Yahoo said it will deploy the support of Do Not Track on all their web projects by early summer of this year to meet a growing concern with respect to user data privacy. The company said today that the Do Not Track system was created last year in collaboration with Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA). The group ...

“Your life will no longer be the same,” said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in September last year at the f8 developer conference. There he presented Facebook’s new Timeline, which will be going live for all users today. Facebook Timeline is a radical change the way we look and read Facebook pages. The social network said ...

1DollarScan, the digital scanning service that lets you digitize your books, documents, greeting cards, photos, etc. for just one dollar, is ramping up its product line as digital publishing gains traction (Pottermore, anyone?)  Today the company unveiled Fine Tune technology for eReader and mobile devices. The new patent-pending technology offers higher resolution and high quality ...

Everyone likes to play a game every now and again.  Checking in on the gamification trend for enterprise environments, Jive has teamed with Bunchball for an advanced gamification module in Jive’s Social Business platform. Bunchball is the tops when it comes to gamification programs. The company’s popular cloud-based Nitro gamification platform is being used by global companies ...

Social technologies are undoubtedly impacting the way we shop.  With reviews and ratings on product pages, which are often able to be shared across social networks and throughout our social graph.  This user-generated content can help others determine whether or not to make a purchase, and companies are capitalizing on this social influence, encouraging users ...

After Harry Potter and Twilight, there’s Hunger Games.  Like the other Hollywood sagas, Hunger Games is based on the bestselling children’s literature by Suzanne Collins. Now turned into an epic film, Hunger Games opened Friday on more than 10,000 screens across the nation,  already grossing $214.3 million globally, marking it as the third-highest film opening ...