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By Pamela Rutledge, on August 4th, 2010, %comments('Comments', 'Comments (1)', 'Comments (%)',
Social media has changed how people get information and communicate in many ways. We are not just consumers of media. With social media and new technology and tools, we also can easily make, change, and share media.
There are images everywhere generated by commercial activity and a wealth of research looking at the impact [...]
By Pamela Rutledge, on May 27th, 2010, %comments('Comments', 'Comments (1)', 'Comments (%)',
Previously published in Psychology Today “Positively Media.”
Facebook’s recent privacy control changes have triggered a big response of concern, indignation, and pages of analysis. One thing you have to love about social media, when people are ticked off, you find out pretty fast. Facebook is doing some rhetorical back-pedaling but when people are angry, [...]
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 it onto a [...]
By Pamela Rutledge, on December 1st, 2009, %comments('Comments', 'Comments (1)', 'Comments (%)',
Published on PsychologyToday.com “Positively Media.”
If you had any doubts about the impact social networking tools and social media have on the world as we know it, watch this Advertising Age video of Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz talk about the changes they’ve made in their approach to reaching skiers and snow enthusiasts. While [...]
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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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