I am frequently asked questions about studying media psychology and about what jobs exist for media psychologists. Here are a few questions I received recently: How are social networking sites viewed in Media Psychology? Are Media Psychologist working at most companies encouraged or discouraged from joining such sites? How companies feel about employees having personal information online? How are blogs, podcasts, and vodcasts used in the job? Most of the answers to the questions like these are dictated by the environment in which a person works, particularly when a person is part of an organization of any kind, from educational to corporate. Different companies and organizations have different policies. More important, however, is that media psychology is an emerging field. Therefore, there is no narrow or established definition of a media psychologist. Media psychology has as many applications as there are disciplines, from education, business, politics, and … [Read more...]
Using Media for Post-Holiday Stress Reduction
The holidays can be stressful. For me personally, I consume more candy, cookies, wine, and rich food over the two weeks surrounding Christmas than I do the entire rest of the year combined. I also exercise less, since I am frantically trying to keep up with real life while I also plan, shop, decorate, wrap presents, cook, and deal with the sensory overload of too many people in not enough space. Even if they are all people I love, which is not always the case, it gets emotionally tiring to be cheerful when you would prefer to sneak out of the house. This rush of demands and activity is complicated by constant images of what holidays, families, and life are supposed to be like that fill every media channel. It’s a very human habit to hold up our own life against other, often unreasonable, standards that we see every day. From Father Knows Best and “Happy Days” to It's a Wonderful Life, we see families helping and supporting each other in ways that we all would like. We … [Read more...]
MP Blog on 101 Fascinating Brain Blogs List
Many thanks to the folks at Online Education Database for including the Media Psychology Blog on their list of 101 Fascinating Brain Blogs. We are listed under "Technology" although because Media Psychology is a cross-disciplinary field, we could have been under other groupings. Media Psychology Blog on 101 Fascinating Brain Blogs List! It was especially gratifying to be listed with some of my personal favorites, such as Cognitive Daily. I am looking forward to checking out some of the others that I haven't seen before. Thanks OEDB.org! … [Read more...]
