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By Pamela Rutledge, on July 26th, 2010, %comments('Comments', 'Comments (1)', 'Comments (%)',
 Where you look matters. Media producers count eyeballs and show you what you will watch. Let’s celebrate achievement, such as the fifth grade chorus from Staten Island, instead of spending our time and money consuming media about outliers, like LeBron James’ basketball contract, or irresponsibility and bad behavior, like Lindsay Lohan’s substance problems and jail sentence. It’s time we started exercising our power through viewing choice and putting the powers of emerging media technologies to work promoting the behaviors we want to see in the media for our kids to emulate–not those we can’t help but see or wish we hadn’t. Let’s use the excitement and engagement of emerging technologies—such as augmented reality—for prosocial ends.
We are long overdue to take some responsibility for the media content we choose to support. Let your eyeballs, remotes and wallets do the talking instead of your mouth. Media has to potential to create images for aspiration and inspiration, not in looks, but in substance. We can choose to support media technologies that affirm what we want to be as individuals and as a society, instead of looking for others to blame for what “media does to us.” Believe me, media outlets pay lots of attention to how you cast your eyeballs. Continue reading Prosocial Augmented Reality: Celebrating Youth Achievement
By Pamela Rutledge, on November 4th, 2009, %comments('Comments', 'Comments (1)', 'Comments (%)',
Wondering what courses make up a media psychology curriculum is common particularly among people thinking about the next steps in their education. Recently a young woman from Athlone High School for Girls in South Africa posed this question, so I am sharing my response here. It is exciting to hear that people all around [...]
By Pamela Rutledge, on July 16th, 2009, %comments('Comments', 'Comments (1)', 'Comments (%)',
A version of this post appeared in my blog Positively Media on Psychology Today.
There’s a lot of buzz about entrepreneurship right now. This is especially obvious if you hang out on LinkedIn, Twitter, or cruise the Ning social networks. It is not surprising, given the amount of people looking for jobs due to [...]
By Pamela Rutledge, on March 13th, 2009, %comments('Comments', 'Comments (1)', 'Comments (%)',
I am very excited to announce that I have joined the blogging community on Psychology Today‘s website writing about the positive use of media and social technologies. My blog there is called Positively Media: How we connect and thrive with emerging technologies. The first posting is called Zen Moment: Social Media isn’t a “thing,” [...]
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What is media psychology? Media psychology studies the interaction of human experience and media technologies. I use cognitive and positive psychologies to understand this reciprocal relationship. Acknowledging the co-evolution of people and media is key to the assessment and promotion of positive media use and applications for work, education, and play.
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