New Media Index: Bloggers Debate the Right to Bear Arms; Tweeters Ponder Privacy on foursquare
The blogosphere was up in arms over the Supreme Court’s decision that boosted the right to bear arms, as it was the most-represented topic in shared news links, while foursquare privacy concerns accounted for the most Tweeted news links, and a video that claims to show rain mixed with oil near New Orleans was the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of June 28-July 2.
The Supreme Court’s Second Amendment ruling accounted for 28 percent of news links shared by bloggers, and it was followed by: a BBC report that Finland would be the first country to make broadband Internet access a legal right for every citizen, at 17 percent; the discovery of the remains of an ancient whale, measuring more than 17 meters long, at 8 percent; a BBC report about an...
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