Apr
18
The ethical questions surrounding psychologists who appear in the mass media are emotionally-loaded and subject to much debate. But we also have to realize that there really is no such thing as just 'mass' media anymore in the traditional sense of uni-directional broadcast one-to-many media. The information flows are much...
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Apr
04
As I told Carrie Cummings from OMMA (interview excerpted below), I so rarely get asked questions about the positive side of social media or the Internet, it was a joy to talk about the benefits of social media, the Internet, and, yes, even humor. Even the act of smiling has powerful...
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Mar
02
Twitter has been teeming with celebrity death hoaxes; the #RIP hashtag has been attached to Tweets about the untimely demise of celebrities from Chris Brown and Cher to Mr. Bean. We often take information for granted because it is plentiful. Plentiful is not the same thing as accurate. On the...
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Feb
19
The loss of someone as young and accomplished as Whitney Houston always gives us pause, no matter what the circumstances. We can see fans, friends, and family try to come to terms with Whitney Houston's death in the mass media coverage and across the Internet in a cascade of Tweets...
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Feb
19
The North Carolina dad who shot his daughter's laptop in a YouTube video shows the critical need to teach media literacy to our kids. You may see the dad as a hero or an idiot, the daughter as a victim or an entitled brat, but she is also ignorant of...
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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.