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By Pamela Rutledge, on January 16th, 2010, %comments('Comments', 'Comments (1)', 'Comments (%)',
Edward Tufte would be proud. This is an example of a brilliant use of social media and a cognitively effective display of the kind of data that social media can generate. Ushahidi are mapping crisis information from Haiti. They have integrated various data input sources, SMS, email, or web, and visually translated [...]
By Pamela Rutledge, on July 24th, 2009, %comments('Comments', 'Comments (1)', 'Comments (%)',
Social media tools are a great way to get to know your audience better and for less expense, than you ever have before. Yet, social media tools seem to change overnight. As Heidi Klum says on Project Runway, “One minute you’re in, the next, you’re out.”
For social media marketers, communicators, and researchers, this means not [...]
By Pamela Rutledge, on February 28th, 2009, %comments('Comments', 'Comments (1)', 'Comments (%)',
It’s hard (for me anyway) to not continually reflect on technology and emerging behaviors–and how that cycle manifests in the next technological development. I was reading Citizen Marketers today and the authors mentioned McLuhan’s remarks about the political changes resulting from the widespread introduction of television. This got me to the larger implications [...]
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About Dr. Pamela Rutledge Pam is Director of the Media Psychology Research Center, adjunct faculty at Fielding Graduate University, an instructor of Media Psychology at UCLA extension and a member of the advisory board and instructor for UC Irvine Extension business school's new 'Web 2.0 and Social Media' certificate program Look for Pam's blog "Positively Media" on PsychologyToday.com.
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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