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FAFO Parenting: Letting Kids Learn the Hard Way November 13, 2025
The latest parenting trend on social media says let kids experience the consequences of their actions rather than intervening. Sounds good. Does it work? Key Points When I heard about the FAFO parenting trend, I was curious. I’m always interested in how social media channels construct (or destroy) meaning as information spreads. As a parent […]
Pamela Rutledge
Meta Is Using Your AI Chats to “Personalize Your Experience” November 3, 2025
Meta will begin using AI chat as data for ad targeting and content personalization across the Meta ecosystem. Here’s what we can do. Recently, I got an email from Meta Privacy saying that they’ll start using my interactions with Meta’s AI tools to “personalize” my experience by suggesting content I may find interesting and showing […]
Pamela Rutledge
Why Teens Love Location Sharing: From Safety Net to Social Glue July 18, 2025
Location sharing can enhance connection and feelings of safety, but raises questions about privacy, personal boundaries, and what it means to be constantly visible. Key Points Why Teens Love Location-Sharing It’s been six years since I wrote about the impact of location-sharing apps on trust and relationships. Six years is a long time when it comes to […]
Pamela Rutledge

Ubiquitous technology means we need a better understanding of:

- Digital and Transmedia Storytelling and constructing and sharing additive narratives across media channels
-Participatory and collaborative media
On-demand information access
-The use of technology to promote positive experiences through cognitive and emotional engagement: positive mood inducement, sense of self-efficacy, social connectedness
-Immersive Environments and new arenas for expression and social modeling of new attitudes, skills, social roles, and personal identity
-Human relationships mediated by technology
-Tools and environments for learning across the lifespan
-Psychological, perceptual and cognitive aspects of using technology and understanding usability