Scott Kaufman in a Psychology Today blog discusses research claiming that conservatives are less creative (Are conservatives less creative than liberals?). Kaufman is fairly even-handed, but I have a problem with research that takes several political policy positions and uses that to establish that some is a “conservative” since that has a much broader social [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Media Psychology'
Media framing: “Conservative” or Cognitive Inflexibility?
By: Pamela Rutledge · November 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Culture · Media Psychology · Political Issues · Pop Culture · Social Change
Internet Addiction: A Sign of the Times?
By: Pamela Rutledge · September 12th, 2008 · No Comments
The question of ‘Internet Addiction’ is big in China. Parents are more worried than ever about their child’s performance–most have only one child to bear the brunt of all that parental pressure–and those same parents are facing a digital divide between themselves and the new generation.
China has its own set of pressures and changes. But [...]
Tags: Culture · Media Psychology · Pop Culture
New media psychology journal - Media Psychology Review
By: Pamela Rutledge · August 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Announcing the inaugural edition of the Media Psychology Review is a breakthrough as the first academic e-zine employing multiple media forms.
Tags: Education · Media Psychology
Emerging Technologies from the Vegetable Garden
By: Pamela Rutledge · August 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Sometimes new ideas are right in front of us in the garden. The Media Creativity blog reports that watermelons are being tested as ad vehicles. When I read this, I imagined mini-billboards applied across the span of the rotund fruit, but the the ad is applied more discreetly as a sticker (but does [...]
Tags: Media Psychology · Pop Culture
The Face of Beijing
By: Pamela Rutledge · August 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I am lucky to be able to see Beijing in person during the Olympics. The athletic accomplishments aside–and the Chinese had 16 gold medals last I checked–the people’s pride in being a host to the games is palpable.
Putting on the Olympics is a lot of work. Designing, constructing, staffing, planning and delivering demand a [...]
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