Media Psychology Matters: The Psychology Driving Media & Technology Impact
The following are the notes from my presentation as part of a panel on “Communicating in the New Normal” at the College Board 2012 Colloquium held in Newport Beach, CA January 7-9. I was part of very august company: moderator Phillip Ballinger, Assistant Vice President for Enrollment and … [Read more...]
Social media has redefined "participatory" in all kinds of ways. Social technologies and easy-to-use tools have changed fundamental assumptions about how we interact with everything, not just each other. It's time we get used to the idea that kids these days think media is for interacting and not … [Read more...]
Hollywood's remake of the film from the bestseller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"is scheduled for release just before Christmas. It comes on the heels of the 2009 Swedish film versions of the Stieg Larsson's Millenium Triology*. While not exactly family fare, I loved Larsson's books and I'm not … [Read more...]
Dr. Bernie Luskin founded the very first media psychology doctoral program in the United States (and possibly even the whole world) at Fielding Graduate University. In his time at Fielding, I'll bet I heard Bernie say “media psychology is a field whose time has come” at least a hundred … [Read more...]
Stories are powerful things. The International OCD Foundation is putting transmedia storytelling to work in its new campaign to raise awareness and overcome stereotypes about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) called Dare to Believe...Together We Can Beat OCD. Stories are a primal form of … [Read more...]
Dr. Pamela Rutledge is available to the press for comments and analysis of the impact of technology and social media use on individuals, business strategy, and society.
Contact: prutledge@mprcenter.org
