The power of media to distribute information to a wide audience makes “stealing” media an effective method of disrupting or redirecting information flows. The Media Psychology Research Center homepage was hijacked yesterday by a Gaza protest group. (Thanks, Larry, for the heads up!) I have included a thumbnail of the intruding page below. The [...]
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Pam is Director of the Media Psychology Research Center. Look for Pam's blog "Positively Media" on PsychologyToday.com.  
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The question of ‘Internet Addiction’ is big in China. Parents are more worried than ever about their child’s performance–most have only one child to bear the brunt of all that parental pressure–and those same parents are facing a digital divide between themselves and the new generation. China has its own set of pressures and [...] A lot of people are preoccupied with the idea of Chinese media as a propaganda device. (I understand that the Chinese character for information and propaganda are the same.) It is certainly true that the media in China is biased; however the western media is also at fault (if that’s the right word) here [...] |
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