How are campaigns and candidates using social media to get their message heard and line up voters and volunteers? We'll hear from two professors who study social media on how Facebook, Twitter and other social networks are employed in the political process.
Guests: James Cook, UMaine Augusta sociology professor. He teaches a course on 'Analyzing Social Media."
Jen Goldbeck, Computer Scientist at the University of Maryland and previous director of that school's Human-Computer Interaction Lab. She is the author of 'Analyzing the Social Web' and gave a Ted Talk titled "The Curly Fry Conundrum - Why Social Media 'Likes' Say More than You Might Think."
