Dr. Pamela Rutledge on the psychology of media and technology
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs model, developed in 1948, resonated across many disciplines, from business, technology and education to its field of origin, psychology. It spoke to potential and to positive conceptualizations of human motivation. As popular and widely applied as this model has been, … [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...]
We need a new name for 'transmedia storytelling'. It seems like all the excitement about big transmedia storytelling projects has made it the buzz term du jour. But somehow, in all that excitement, the fundamentals have become obscured. It's important to remember that in 'transmedia storytelling,' … [Read more...]
The webinar Dr. Bonnie Buckner and I developed for UCI Extension, “The Power of Transmedia Storytelling: Persuasive Communications Across Emerging Technologies,” won the best webinar content award from the Internet Marketing Association. We created it for the course we teach on Transmedia … [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...]
Look for her blog Positively Media on PsychologyToday.com.
