Abo46n2's Favorite Links on media from Diigo

Microsoft's Ballmer on Yahoo and the Future - washingtonpost.com

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:32:49 -0000

Tags: microsoft media future yahoo

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Worldometers - real time world statistics

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:46:17 -0000

Tags: statistics world population health government

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YouTube - Mimi Ito on digital media and learning

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:10:39 -0000

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Tags: ito media education learning

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EASA Media Anthropology Network - Working Papers

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:41:57 -0000

Tags: anthropology media resources

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YouTube - Alisa Miller on Global News 2.0

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:35:29 -0000

How the news shapes the way we see the world, and why Americans seem to know less and less about the world around them and their many connections to it.

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Tags: news media video

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Violent Films and Prosocial Behavior

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:11:54 -0000

This study attempted to further test the excitation transfer theory's applicability to prosocial behavior. Forty-two female college students were treated in either a positive or neutral manner by a confederate and then watched a violent, arousing film, a neutral, nonarousing film, or no film. Following this, participants were given the opportunity both to aggress against and reward the confederate. As predicted, individuals treated in a positive manner and shown the violent film were more generous in administering reward to the confederate than were similarly treated individuals exposed to the neutral film or no film.

Tags: film media psychology research violence

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Priming Effects of Media Violence on the Accessibility of Aggressive Constructs in Memory

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:09:49 -0000

Two experiments tested the hypothesis that violent media make aggressive constructs more accessible to viewers. In Experiment 1, participants made free associations to homonyms, with one meaning more aggressive than the other; and to nonaggressive words after viewing a violent or nonviolent video. Participants who saw the violent video listed more aggressive associations to both types of words. In Experiment 2, participants completed a lexical-decision task after viewing a violent or nonviolent video. Participants pressed one key if a string of letters was an English word, or another key if it was a nonword. Half of the words were aggressive and half were nonaggressive. Participants who saw the violent video had faster reaction times to aggressive words. Videotape content did not influence reaction times to nonaggressive words. These results suggest that violent media prime cognitive-associative networks related to aggression.

Tags: media psychology research violence

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Media violence and the American public: Scientific facts versus media misinformation

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:57:57 -0000

Fifty years of news coverage on the link between media violence and aggression have left the U.S. public confused. Typical news articles pit researchers and child advocates against entertainment industry representatives, frequently giving equal weight to the arguments of both sides. A comparison of news reports and scientific knowledge about media effects reveals a disturbing discontinuity: Over the past 50 years, the average news report has changed from claims of a weak link to a moderate link and then back to a weak link between media violence and aggression. However, since 1975, the scientific confidence and statistical magnitude of this link has been clearly positive and has consistently increased over time. Reasons for this discontinuity between news reports and the actual state of scientific knowledge include the vested interests of the news reporting, and the failure of the research community to effectively argue the scientific case.

Tags: media psychology research usa violence

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Media violence: Miscast causality

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:55:39 -0000

Tags: media violence

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Howard Rheingold's Vlog

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:25:54 -0000

Tags: media rheingold video vlog

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Race, Media, and Violence: Differential Racial Effects of Exposure to Violent News Stories - Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:39:35 -0000

An experiment was conducted to assess whether effects of exposure to violent media information would vary as a function of target person race. Participants were exposed to violent or nonviolent media information and subsequently made judgments of a violent act committed by a Black, White, or race unspecified man. The most relevant findings indicated that perceptions did not vary as a function of violence exposure for the White and race unspecified defendant. On the other hand, for Black defendants, participants exposed to violent information made attributions of his behavior that were more dispositional than those exposed to nonviolent information. The findings also indicated that when compared to men, women tended to make attributions of defendant behavior that were more dispositional. Finally, when compared to attributions of the White defendant's behavior, attributions of the Black defendant were more dispositional.

Tags: aggression behavior media psychology race

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Massaging Media 2 | April 4-6, 2008 | Seaport Hotel and Convention Center | Boston Massachusetts

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:59:12 -0000

Tags: conference mcluhan media

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China Eats Crow Over Faked Photo Of Rare Antelope - WSJ.com

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:23:29 -0000

Tags: china ethics fake image media

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Changing Records and Changing Realities

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:40:49 -0000

Tags: history media publishing

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YouTube - Exposing the Wiring: Media Reflexivity in Three Genres

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:44:11 -0000

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Tags: anthropology media reflexivity visualanthropology

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The Network Paradigm: Social Formations in the Age of Information

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:20:22 -0000

Tags: Stalder media sociology

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Stage6 · Steal this film II - Video and Download · Billyjjx2

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:58:02 -0000

Tags: film media piracy video

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Some Conjectures about the Impact of Printing on Western Society and Thought: A Preliminary Report

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:59:32 -0000

Tags: eisenstein history media research

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The Advent of Printing and The Problem of The Renaissance

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:58:21 -0000

Tags: eisenstein history media research

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apophenia: Pew on teen social media practices (with interesting bits on class)

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:03:49 -0000

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I wasn't surprised by most of their findings, but one of them did make me raise my eyebrows: Teens from lower-income are more likely to blog. Because of how Pew collects data, they cannot answer the question "why?" when they find such correlations, but I figured that my qualitative data might provide some insight and so I went back through my data. When asked about blogging, most of my MySpace-dominant users would immediately talk about the blogs that they kept on MySpace while my Facebook-dominant teens would talk about how Xanga was "so middle school" and that "everyone stopped" because "it just felt really weird writing about my day to people that I didn't even care about." And then it clicked. As I pointed out last summer and Eszter saw in her survey, the MySpace/Facebook split is correlated with socio-economic status. Because MySpace supports blogging and Facebook does not and because many of the teens who were once on Xanga are now using one of the SNSs, it makes sense that teens from lower-income households are more likely to blog now. They are blogging on MySpace. Now, that outta be interesting when these kids hit college where blogging is used as an educational tool.

Tags: danahboyd media networks pew research

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