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USA TODAY: Fact check: Identical injured dog posts are a viral scam

October 21, 2022

UC social media expert cited in USA Today explains how social media posts can be replicated to see who might be vulnerable to sad stories such as a dog getting hit by a car. Use caution and verify posts through outside sources, says Jeffery Blevins, professor and head of UC's Department of Journalism.

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Grass Roots Health: How social media has changed us

May 19, 2023

Since the onset of social media, what has changed in the way people communicate? What factors are there to consider now that employers and other agencies can search your posts? These are the topics that UC social media expert Jeffrey Blevins, PhD, discusses on the podcast: How has social media changed us?

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NPR: Twitter replaces its bird logo with an X

July 25, 2023

UC's Jeffrey Blevins featured as an expert in an NPR article on Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to "X". Blevins, who holds faculty positions in both the Department of Journalism and School of Public and International Affairs, is a leading scholar in U.S. telecommunication law and policy, and critical political economy theory and is the co-author of “Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks.”

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The New York Times: Third Black-owned company emerges as suitor for BET

March 14, 2023

An overall decline in television viewership can be attributed to new technologies such as streaming services, but Black Entertainment Television has been feeling the decline more pointedly after legislation from the 1990s, UC's Jeffrey Blevins, a professor of journalism, tells The New York Times.