The Media Psychology Blog

It’s fitting that my very first blog post, as in, any blog, ever, was spurred by yesterday’s purchase of a to celebrate our 12-year wedding anniversary. Sure, jewelery and perfume and flowers are romantic, but for a true television lover like myself, nothing beats watching a show about a horrific medical anomaly in brilliant high [...]

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It’s one year since the iPhone reports Tom Krazit at CNET. He believes there are two types of people who anted up the bucks to be an early adopter - die hard techno geeks who love new cool gadgets and smart phone newbies who suckered in at the first “hello” (Media tribute to [...]

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I mean party line like the ‘old days’ on a telephone–no political pun intended. A colleague sent around this Presidential Watch 08 Map of the Political Blogosphere. I like it because it shows the interrelatedness and dynamic linking of professional and nonprofessional discourse on the Internet. It is a wonderful–and aesthetically beautiful–example [...]

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So, here I am, starting off my morning checking e-mail.  Once I get past the Cialis ads, debt consolidation promises, endless RSS feeds, newsletters, and e-news links, I get to the stuff that I really like more than anything else in my daily mediated communication ritual.
However, before I tell you want that is, let me [...]

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A friend in the news industry sent me this blog posting by Robert Niles (USC Journalism School) that I just got around to reading, “When journalists hate journalism”
Niles’ reports that unlike other industries, such as music, where professionals in the industry are the biggest fans of the industry, that:
Many journalists despise TV news. They hate [...]

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