Feb
16
By Pamela Rutledge and Bonnie Buckner The Levi’s Go Forth/We Are All Workers Campaign has focused a lot of attention on the town of Braddock, PA. Levi’s uses Braddock to frame a struggling former steel town with a Depression-era narrative. Levi’s linked the culturally iconic metaphor of the Depression with...
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Feb
15
Colleague and friend Brad Morstad submitted this video, called "The Message" to TED. It speaks directly to the major themes at A Think Lab: the seismic shifts in culture and psychology that innovations in technology and a connected global community have delivered. We view media technologies and societies (and all...
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Feb
15
My friend Bret Morstad submitted this great video, called "The Message" to TED. It speaks to the seismic shifts in culture and psychology that innovations in technology and a connected global community have delivered. I view media technologies and societies (and all things, really) from a systems perspective. A system...
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Feb
10
Whether or not Egyptian President Mubarak steps down as protestors demand, it's clear that Egyptian society has undergone a cataclysmic shift. Much of this shift is due to the connectivity from new media technologies, such as Twitter and Facebook. Malcolm Gladwell has gotten a lot of flack for writing that...
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Jan
27
What does it mean when we have real time on-demand information? It means there is no longer an information shortage. We have more information that we know what to do with -- even when we ask for it. We have a filter shortage. Stories are the way the brain processes...
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Dr. Pamela Rutledge is available to reporters for comments on the psychological and social impact of media and technology on individuals, society, organizations and brands.