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. [...]
Entries from September 2008
Entanglement as the antidote to Mediacentrism
By: Pamela Rutledge · May 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Media Psychology · Technology
Twitter, YouTube, and Another Man’s Shoes
By: Pamela Rutledge · May 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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, [...]
Tags: Media Psychology · Social Change · Technology
Twittering the day away
By: Jon Cabiria · May 16th, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Media Psychology · Technology
Digital Media - School is just one node on a kid’s information and learning network
By: Pamela Rutledge · May 10th, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Media Psychology
Looking from both sides
By: Pamela Rutledge · May 7th, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Media Psychology



