At the recent Broadcast Educators Association Festival in Las Vegas, colleagues Garry Hare, Bonnie Buckner, Sean Thoennes, and Media Psychology Research Center Executive Director Erik Gregory gave a brilliant panel presentation on different aspects and considerations of designing media for a small screen. (You can read Bonnie's paper on the... read more →
May
06
May
03
David Brooks has an op-ed called “The Cognitive Age” in the New York Times that I think is a must-read. He talks about current perceptions of globalization--how it has become a popular paradigm for explaining change--especially change we don’t like. Brooks argues that it is the wrong paradigm, because it... read more →
May
03
As a baby-boomer and media psychologist, articles about positive approaches to aging catch my attention. What I love about the baby-boomer generation is that they do tend to go about things with a kind of self-focused all or nothing enthusiasm. According to an article by Katie Hafner “Exercise Your Brain,... read more →
May
03
David Brooks has an op-ed called “The Cognitive Age” in the New York Times that I think is a must-read. He talks about current perceptions of globalization--how it has become a popular paradigm for explaining change--especially change we don’t like. Brooks argues that it is the wrong paradigm, because it... read more →
Apr
17
According to an article in Forbes, “Taxing Virtual Worlds,” Congress has begun holding hearings about taxing commercial activity in virtual worlds. Discussions included the taxability of “buying” weapons in World of Warcraft, and commercial exchanges in the virtual world of Second Life. If it weren’t so scary, it’d be funny. ... read more →
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