The Media Psychology Blog

A study out of Ohio state reports that “fake” news, such as Jon Stewart or The Colbert Report, doesn’t inform or teach viewers as much about political issues and cadidates as does watching news on television networks like CNN and NBC.  I never thought learning was the issue when reports started coming out saying that [...]

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Announcing the inaugural edition of the Media Psychology Review is a breakthrough as the first academic e-zine employing multiple media forms.

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I recently received this email inquiry from a college student:
I am very interested in obtaining some sort of degree in psychology. I have been researching all the different areas and was just wondering if the pathway would be to just get a psychology degree? Or specialize in something for the media? And then what careers [...]

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Our colleague at Fablevision, Peter Reynolds, lead an interactive investigation with actor Eric Close at the National Educational Computing Conference to demonstrate how technology can impact learning and excite children about education. The event was hosted by Verizon Foundation’s Thinkfinity.org, which offers elementary through high school teachers resources across eight academic disciplines, from science to [...]

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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, or Else You’ll…Uh…” [...]

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