The Media Psychology Blog

Twitter Vote Report is a non-partison network of people working to capture the experience of voting—long lines, broken machines, errors in registration, etc.  It works by having individuals all over the country report on their experience.
You submit a report a number of ways:
By Twitter: Post a tweet that includes the hashtag #votereport. More tags.
By Text [...]

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The study “Teenagers: A Generation Unplugged” by the wireless trade association CTIA and Harris Interactive reports that cell phones have become a vital part of a teen’s identity. The coolness of the cell phone is considered a marker for popularity and status and having a phone is essential to a teen’s social life. (While [...]

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Social media sites just keep springing up from the ether like summer flowers, or weeds, depending upon how you view this proliferation. Still, the simplicity and immediacy of social media website, Twitter, and its cousin Jaiku, still have me hopelessly addicted above all others. You know that a “trend” has arrived when the pornographers, spammers, [...]

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I hadn’t been in Second Life for several months. But I was invited by a friend to visit his class on Social Media Marketing and talk about the psychology of website design (I’ll post the talk when I get it cleaned up–we had some technical issues), so I was forced to go out and [...]

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Thanks to my friend Jon Cabiria, wrote about Twitter in this blog on May 16 and got me started on this thing, I am now a Twitter addict. Twitter is a social networking site, a sort of micro-blog where you share tidbits and musings (called “Tweets”) with your friends, acquaintances, and total strangers. [...]

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