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Reality TV’s 15 Minutes of Fame
I had a discussion with a reporter from a German newspaper last week. She was interested in the American take on Reality TV—specifically about humiliation and debasement as a form of entertainment. She...
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Old(er) students and new media
Fielding Graduate University is holding an orientation for new doctoral students in media psychology in Santa Barbara. (Fielding has the only doctoral program in media psychology in the U.S.) This is...
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Media Technologies Change the Rules
Gibson guitars is suing Activision for patent violation in Activision’s wildly popular Guitar Hero according to Reuters. This is just one more example of how the proliferation of media technologies is...
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Media Psychology Research Center Hosts Blog
The Media Psychology Blog main site is now integrated with the Media Psychology Research Center. Please join us at: http://www.mprcenter.org/blog
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The web series is dying – and Netflix and Amazon Prime are responsible
Source: www.theguardian.com The emergence of Netflix & Amazon Prime over web series argues that the value proposition for consumers is on control first–the ‘delivery on demand’ rather than the...
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How News Anchor’s Difficult On-Air Cancer Revelation Could Help Others
When Illinois news anchor Dave Benton made a major on-air announcement recently, it was reportage at its most personal: Benton, 51, revealed that his doctors had told him that he has just four to six...
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Filmmakers Look to Virtual Reality and Oculus as the Future of Storytelling
V Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com Recent prototype headsets offer great promise for narrative experience but can they also support the social side of entertainment? Most entertainment–from gaming...
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Solving Customer Problems, Even When They Aren’t Our Fault
It was 4 p.m. on a Sunday and I had just arrived in Las Vegas. Source: www.examiner.com @TuxedoLasVegas Tuxedo Junction has been in LV much longer than @Zappos but this story is exactly what Hsieh...
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Dodgers Dodged A Great Original Content Opportunity To Engage Fans
Article By Jonathan Tavss How exciting was it when the Dodgers were so hot at the end of the season to head into the MLB Post Season? For many in Los Angeles, just the thought that they will actual…...
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You Can Recover From a Snippy Email, But Prepare to Grovel
Email isn’t for complex ideas or strong feelings, says Sherry Turkle, director of MIT’s Initiative on Technology and Self Source: online.wsj.com It’s your reptilian brain that sends those emotional...
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Coming Next: Cosmetics Ads Featuring You As the Model
Startup brand Slate Cosmetics looks to overcome its lack of store presence with virtual sampling. Source: adage.com Makes perfect sense that companies should focus on the actual user of the product....
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The Silent Society: How Americans Have Replaced Words with Clicks
Americans are doing the most mundane everyday task online, particularly on their smartphones, and this growing habit of avoiding the spoken word has become the new luxury in our lives. Source:...
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Transmedia Literacy: Expanding the Media Literacy Frontier
Critical thinking across multiple modalities Source: div46amplifier.com Transmedia literacy implies engaging critically in nonlinear narratives of all kinds, from entertainment and branding to...
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