What makes positive media? There is a huge pile of research looking at the negative aspects of media, particularly related to advertising. There are studies addressing social concerns about the impact of media on how people define themselves, success, society and, well, pretty much everything. The quality of the research varies, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'creativity'
Defining Positive Media
February 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Brands & Markets, Positive Psychology
Tags: creativity·Fanta·Positive Media
Media framing: “Conservative” or Cognitive Inflexibility?
November 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Culture & Change, Politics & Policy, Pop Culture, Psychology, Society
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 [...]
July 4th in Second Life
July 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Networks, Pop Culture, Psychology
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 [...]
Tags: creativity·Media Experience·participatory art·Second Life
