Oct
15
The Washington Post reported that teens have figured out how to get around Apple’s Screen Time. Why parents are surprised, beats me. Kids and teens today have a lot of experience navigating their digital worlds. They know how to find solutions to problems by experimentation and/or by looking online. I google recipes,...
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Oct
07
The digital revolution has disrupted a century of economic, social and political norms bringing a variety of new opportunities as well as unfamiliar and complex problems. As a media psychologist and researcher, I am excited by the new approaches to audience analytics enabled by digital and social technologies that let us...
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Oct
05
A savvy influencer knows the importance of creating an emotional connection and works hard to build fan relationships. Fan communities create a sense of affiliation and belonging, powerful drivers of human motivation. There is nothing like a little drama to activate belonging, picking sides, who's in and who's out. It fires...
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Sep
29
Fortune reported on the move by Facebook to test hiking 'Likes' from posts. Removing the likes that other people have doesn’t change our need to compare ourselves. It'll be like holding a balloon underwater--it'll pop up somewhere since social comparison is hardwired. It easy to forget, given all the social...
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Sep
28
An article on NBC News (A New York teen's fatal stabbing was filmed by onlookers: Is social media to blame?) looked at the potential impact social media may be having on how people help others in trouble. It's a good quesion. What happens to the bystander effect as people capture...
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Dr. Pamela Rutledge is available to reporters for comments on the psychological and social impact of media and technology on individuals, society, organizations and brands.