Rory O'Connor on satirical Twitter personas, i.e. @romneybinders & @invisibleobama (after Clint), this election season.

Rory O'Connor shares how data-mining techniques play into the US Presidential Race.

Rory O'Connor joined the Shorenstein Center for a discussion about how social media has influenced politics and traditional media.

Rory O'Connor speaks about the tension between new and old media.

Rory O'Connor on the role of social media in the 2012 US Presidential Campaign.

Rory O'Connor was a keynote speaker at the 2012 Publishing Business Virtual Conference, September 13, 2012.  Register at this site for free access to his talk about what he thinks publishers need to do to survive in a world driven by social media.

The Firedog Lake Book Salon welcomed Rory O'Connor for a conversation about his book Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media, led and moderated by Beth Becker.

Rory O'Connor interviewed by media veteran Max Robins at the Paley Center's web site.  4 part interview.

How I learned to stop worrying about Facebook's IPO and love being informed about their privacy violations:  Rory O'Connor discusses Friends, Followers and the Future on the PBS Newshour.

O'Connor offers many important insights into Facebook, its shifting privacy tools, Zuckerberg’s view that privacy is passe, and the CIA’s monitoring of Facebook, Twitter and other platforms.

Rory O'Connor discusses the private internet communications surreptitiously collected by Google during their "Street Views" program on Wired.

Rory O'Connor discusses both Democrats and Republicans use of social media in the election process on The Huffington Post.

An Excerpt from Friends, Followers and the Future by Rory O'Connor starts on page 42.

On May 24th, Rory O'Connor was interviewed by Wally James, host of The Progressive Forum on KPFT, Houston.  Go to this web site, scroll down to May 24th and The Progressive Forum, and choose Play or Download from the right hand column.

What does it mean if a big TV network wants to be your friend? Rory O'Connor discusses brands and social media on Australian radio show The Media Report.

"The future of media is social and mobile;" Rory O'Connor interviewed by Loraine Morrill on Philadelphia's Q102, Radio 104.5 and Mix 106.1.

"If everybody's a brand then arguably nothing is brand." Rory O'Connor interviewed to discuss the "information revolution" and the diminishing power of big media brands.

Rory O'Connor discusses the Facebook IPO, its role as a major media presence, and how to trust and verify the information coming through social media.

"Separate newspapers from the news." Rory O'Connor believes that because of the social media revolution, there's never been a more exciting time for journalists.

Rory O'Connor's op-ed looks at Facebook's IPO and the value of trust.

Danny Schechter interviews Rory O'Connor for News Dissector Radio on the Progressive Radio Network.

Friends, Followers and the Future mentioned as a "brilliant must-read book out on social media," and Rory O'Connor's ideas about social media providing tools for revolts and revolutions are cited.

A few insights from the book are highlighted, and Rory O'Connor's May 22 reading at Brookline Booksmith is plugged.

Rory O'Connor interviewed in the Boston Phoenix, discussing how various social movements have effectively used social media.

O'Connor quoted in front page story on Facebook's upcoming IPO.
"Rory O'Connor, an Emmy-winning former producer for CBS News and PBS, has penned a new book, Friends, Followers and the Future, that looks at how social media -- and Facebook in particular -- are changing political campaigns and the media's role in them. . . . O'Connor and others say this year's election will be even more dominated by social media -- and whoever uses it most effectively will win."

O'Connor discusses the role social media plays in social movements.
(This essay will also appear in Coldtype's April issue).

Excerpt from O'Connor's reading at City Lights, on Tuesday, May 1st.

To see Part 2, go to : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1wUgrTsIZU&feature=youtu.be .

Show is syndicated on about 15 stations in 6 states including CA, IA, ID, MI, IL, TX.

Rory O'Connor, author of Friends, Followers, and the Future, talks with KRON-TV.

Is the internet titan Google becoming the next Microsoft?  In his latest op-ed on Al Jazeera.com, O'Connor discusses why Google may lose the social e-war it's waging, as it faces anti-trust suits on many fronts.

Rory O'Connor, author of Friends, Followers, and the Future, appears on KALW's Your Call.

Rory O'Connor, author of Friends, Followers, and the Future, discusses his book with AlterNet in relation to how social media has impacted the way we get news and where media might go in the future.

Host Rob Kall says, "Rory has written a brilliant book on where the media is heading--and it's social."

Rory O'Connor, author of Friends, Followers, and the Future, talks with the Santa Cruz Sentinel about the future of social media.

Rory O'Connor interviewed by students about social media's role in the 2012 elections.

An excerpt on the Huffington Post from Rory O'Connor's Friends, Followers, and the Future: How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands and Killing Traditional Media.

Facebook may be more nosy than we thought, but if you have doubts Rory O'Connor lays out the evidence in his latest article in the Huffington Post.

Rory O'Connor strikes again, this time with a provocative post about how Google is headed for troubles as "social" is replacing "search."

Causemedia talks with Rory O'Connor, author of Friends, Followers and the Future, about how social media is changing communication and how nonprofit organizations can participate in the "digital revolution". 

Rory O'Connor. author of Friends, Followers, and the Future, discusses the use or lack thereof, on Santorum's part of social media in election pursuits.

On the anniversary of the "Arab Spring", Rory O'Connor, author of Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media, discusses the role of social media in organizing protests all over the world.

Rory O'Connor interviewed about his most recent book, the second edition of Nukespeak: The Selling of Nuclear Technology from the Manhattan Project to Fukushima on WGBH-TV in Boston, October 13, 2011.

Author Rory O'Connor discusses the "hate talk establishment" of talk radio.