Saturday, August 31, 2013

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Get a Master's Degree in Computer Science for $7,000.

via Jedediah Walls, Media Psychologist http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-7000-masters-degree-thats-scaring-colleges-2013-8

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

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Saturday, August 24, 2013

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Reality is a game about telling stories. The best stories increase the length and quality of play. via Jedediah Walls, Media Psychologist http://www.facebook.com/pages/p/375155975925633

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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via Jedediah Walls, Media Psychologist https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=459869970787566&set=a.385076564933574.1073741825.375155975925633&type=1 Latest Argument. Influenced by: Barabasi, A.-L. (2003). Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means. New York, NY: Plume. Barkow, J. H., O’Gorman, R., & Rendell, L. (2012). Are the New Mass Media Subverting Cultural Transmission? Review of General Psychology, 16(2), 121-133. Blascovich, J., & McCall, C. (2013). Social Influence in Virtual Environments: Oxford University Press. Bloom, P. (2010). How pleasure works : the new science of why we like what we like. New York: W. W. Norton. Campbell, J. (1949). The Hero and the God The Hero with a Thousand Faces. New York: World Publishing. Cirucci, A. M. (2013). First person paparazzi: Why social media should be studied more like video games. Telematics and Informatics, 30. Dill, K. E. (2009). How Fantasy Becomes Reality: Seeing Through Media Influence. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Exaptation. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exaptation Green, M. C., Brock, T. C., & Kaufman, G. F. (2004). Understanding Media Enjoyment: The Role of Transportation Into Narrative Worlds Communication Theory, Fourteen(Four). Gross, J. (2004). A Dream Life Freud Would Have Envied. Retrieved August 2, 2013, from http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/fashion/07CAR.html?_r=0 Haven, K. (2007). Story Proof: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story. Westport: Libraries Unlimited. Jung, C. (1964). Man and His Symbols. New York: Dell Publishing. Loftus, E., & Palmer, J.C. (1974). Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction : An Example of the Interaction Between Language and Memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 13, 585-589. Lyotard, J.-F. (1984). The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge: University Of Minnesota Press. Mcluhan, M., & McLuhan, E. (1992). Laws of Media: The New Science. Toronto, OT: University of Toronto Press. Rushkoff, D. (2001). The Merchants of Cool Retrieved August 2, 2013, from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/ Shedlosky-Shoemaker, R., Costabile, K. A., DeLuca, H. K., & Arkin, R. M. (2011). The Social Experience of Entertainment Media Effects of Others’ Evaluations on Our Experience. Journal of Media Psychology, 233(3). Van Overwalle, F., & Heylighen, F. (2006). Talking nets: a multiagent connectionist approach to communication and trust between individuals. Psychological Review, 113(3). Zak, P. (2012). Empathy, Neurochemistry, and the Dramatic Arc: Paul Zak at the Future of StoryTelling Retrieved August 2, 2013, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1a7tiA1Qzo Experiencing Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of Reading By Richard J. Gerrig Media influence, and media apology by Melanie C. Green, Karen E. Dill A General Framework for Media Psychology Scholarship W. James Potter

Monday, August 19, 2013

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via Jedediah Walls, Media Psychologist http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/08/19/women-in-science-exploring-the-exquisite-choreography-between-action-and-perception-in-the-human-brain/

Saturday, August 10, 2013

From Facebook



via Jedediah Walls, Media Psychologist https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=455362004571696&set=a.385076564933574.1073741825.375155975925633&type=1 Current Paper.

Friday, August 9, 2013

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First robot love affair ends badly.

via Jedediah Walls, Media Psychologist http://realitypod.com/2010/10/robot-programmed-to-fall-in-love-with-a-girl-goes-too-far/

Thursday, August 8, 2013

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Further implication that we are primarily symbol making machines, and that story is an important driver of happiness.

via Jedediah Walls, Media Psychologist http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/for-better-health-find-meaning/278250/

Monday, August 5, 2013

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This semester I did an awesome experiment where I turned my class into a game: I had my students take part in a mystery adventure where each assignment told a small part of a story about a missing painting, and their grades helped determine how many clues they received in tracking down the art. The results have been AWESOME, and I have been surprised at their ability to deduce things analytically and even symbolically. I've had to work hard to make the mystery difficult enough for them! This tells me something about the nature of games and investigation - they are correlated. Investiagation is often integral to games, and our powers to deduce seem to be increased when we are in a game environment. I think next semester I'm going to take this a step further: I'm going to have my students work on an actual mystery: a real missing piece of art and a real theft, and let's see if they can determine anything useful or insightful that can help real investigators on the case. Can students solve an unsolved mystery? via Jedediah Walls, Media Psychologist http://www.facebook.com/pages/p/375155975925633

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Within a couple generations the idea of killing animals for food could be seen as barbaric.

via Jedediah Walls, Media Psychologist http://www.nbcnews.com/science/intense-flavor-330-000-hamburger-was-built-lab-hits-spot-6C10835460