ANGELS ARE SLAIN
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- This week, the University of Arkansas increased security on campus after someone heard a rumor while at a bar that there would be a shooting on campus.
Authorities don't think the threat is credible, but it illustrates a heightened sense of awareness surrounding threats to schools.
No doubt social media has also played a big role in awareness.
Last fall, two different possible threats caused confusion at several schools in central Springfield.
While college campuses and some schools were on lockdown, social media blew up with mis-information about what was really going on.
It's very frustrating that we don't have that control anymore, says Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams.
Williams blames social media for spreading misinformation that day.
Before his investigators could let the public know the truth, rumors and suspicions had created chaos and panic on the web.
We took the bull by the horns and said we don't want that to happen again, Williams says. We need to control social media as much as we can.
Williams and school leaders met to craft a new plan for how to disseminate information during a school threat scenario.
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WASHINGTON Despite an ever-expanding number of ways to put out news and information, a new report says the crackdown on media freedoms around the world has been unrelenting. Freedom of the Press 2014 says global press freedom has fallen to its lowest level in over a decade, with major setbacks in places that had been making progress only a few years ago. Just about everywhere, simply getting the news is getting harder. The non-profit democracy advocate Freedom House reported that media freedom is on the decline worldwide. We see attempts to control or manipulate the message, so increased use of propaganda, of trying to influence editorial content in advance. Then what we also see is a crackdown and harassment of bloggers and people who are using these mediums to get out information, said project director Karin Karlekar. Karlekar said media freedoms eroded so badly in 2013 that only one out of every six people worldwide had access to a Free media. In many areas that saw declines, she added, governments did not act alone. There were changes in media ownership at key outlets. And then we saw changes in editorial tone, we saw pressure being placed on journalists, said Karlerkar. North Korea was ranked the worst of the 197 countries and territories rated by Freedom House. Iran was also near the bottom despite a slight improvement during its presidential election. Syria, where journalists have been killed and kidnapped, was near the bottom as well. The Middle East as a whole saw the worst press freedom declines, led by Egypt, where the military-backed government cracked down hard, targeting journalists and putting them on trial.
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Contact: Matthew Swayne mls29@psu.edu 814-865-9481 Penn State
Social media companies that give users a greater sense of control can ease them into interface changes, as well as curb defections to competitors, according to researchers.
"Several studies have looked into how social media companies have failed," said Pamela Wisniewski, a post-doctoral scholar in information sciences and technology, Penn State. "What we need to think about is how social media companies can be more adaptive and how they can improve the longevity of their sites.
In a study of the reaction to the introduction of Facebook's Timeline interface between 2011 and 2012, researchers found that users considered the mandatory transition to the new interface highly stressful. They also found evidence that suggests that giving users a voice can give them a sense of control to better adapt to new online environments.
Facebook's Timeline interface allowed users to access posts by date, highlighted certain events and set privacy controls to remove, modify visibility or hide posts on their page. The company initially provided a blog to release information to users, but then closed the blog, said Wisniewski, who worked with Heng Xu, associate professor of information sciences and technology, Penn State, and Yunan
Chen, assistant professor of informatics, University of California, Irvine. Denying users the ability to use the blog as a place to voice their concerns and give feedback may have thwarted one of the positive strategies people use to cope with changes in their environment, the researchers said. People who feel more in control become focused on solving problems and adjusting to the change, while those who do not feel they have control tend to focus on their emotions and resort to more negative coping strategies.
The researchers, who presented their findings today (April 30) at the Association for Computing Machinery's Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, said that 67 percent of users' coping strategies in the Timeline transition were negative. The users complained, threatened to switch to another social network and urged others to drop Facebook.
"Without giving people a way of offering feedback, you make them feel less empowered and they have more of a feeling of hopelessness," said Wisniewski.
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