The Media Psychology Blog

This week was the Gilder-Forbes Telecosm Conference, full of tech-types, entrepreneurs, physicists, inventors, investors, and the generally curious. It is an interesting and intellectual challenging group with inventors and innovators like physicist Carver Mead whose pioneering work led to microchips and a dozen other things we take for granted on a daily basis.
Heady stuff. [...]

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Two things came across my RSS feeds today that show how technology is impacting our information environment. First, YouTube has added a News Manager (Olivia) to promote Citizen News content:

Second was a blog entry by CNET’s Dan Farber on Twitter as a viable means of spreading information. (See Jon’s last entry below, [...]

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So, a friend asked me the other day what the attraction is for Twitter (http://www.twitter.com).  What could so many people find interesting about the daily text bytes (140 maximum characters per posting) of a bunch of people, most of whom I don’t know?  I have to admit that the question caused me to pause.  I [...]

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A couple of weeks ago when I was at the Broadcast Educators festival in Las Vegas, I was struck by the words people use to talk about new media. Words like: inundated, overwhelmed, deluged, complex, confusing, and potentially dangerous. It struck me that many of us are trapped in our own brains and [...]

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I recently heard from a friend in China in response to my blog entry (March 28, 2008) about perceptions of misrepresentation of Chinese events by Western media. I found his remarks fascinating and a good reminder that we have to understand each other (interpersonally, internationally and intergalactically) in order to avoid misunderstandings. Attributing [...]

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