When UBC associate professor of journalism Alfred Hermida examined the history of human interactions, he discovered there has always been trepidation around new methods of communication. During an ...

To tweet is human. That's what Alfred Hermida tells us in his new book, Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters, about the origins and implications of our social media obsession. "People are ...

Editor’s Note: We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Here’s news pioneer Alfred Hermida, a founder of BBCnews.com and currently an ...

TORONTO, April 16, 2015 /CNW/ - Alfred Hermida has been named the winner of the National Business Book Award for his book, Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why it Matters, published by Doubleday Canada ...

When an unarmed black teen by the name of Michael Brown was gunned down by police in the Missouri suburb of Ferguson in August, Twitter erupted with outrage over what many saw as an unjustified, ...

Editor’s note: Professors Mary Lynn Young and Alfred Hermida of the University of British Columbia are the co-founders of The Conversation Canada. In this essay written for our first day of ...

Alfred Hermida is technology editor of the BBC News website. As a pioneer in online journalism, he was a founding member of the news site set up in 1997. Alfred has worked as a journalist for the BBC ...

Editor’s Note: We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Here’s news pioneer Alfred Hermida, a founder of BBCnews.com and currently an ...

Alfred Hermida's Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why it Matters, a manifesto on the power of social media and the ways in which it can be harnessed, won the 2015 National Business Book Award on ...