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PSY 700 - Spring 2009: Week #9: The risks and benefits of social media
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Week #9: The risks and benefits of social media. Week 9: May 11-17). The world is awash in Web 2.0, also known as the social web, also known as the read-write web because of the free, easy-to-use tools that allow the least technical among us to create web content. There are four basic pillars of Web 2.0:. Many of the tools that characterize Web 2.0 are developed with programming languages that many people use. The result is that there are lots of tools! A cornucopia of content resources. Fortunately ther...
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PSY 700 - Spring 2009: Week #4: How does wording skew perception?
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Week #4: How does wording skew perception? Week 4: April 6-12). Detecting bias in writing is especially problematic because words have the appearance of being conservative in the age of fast moving multimedia. After all, with writing there are no quick technical events, no persuasive music. Just silent, frozen words on a page. Read “When Words Decide” by Barry Schwartz (Scientific American Mind, V 18, No. 4, Sept 2007). We will provide a link to the article through Fielding resources. How to read the news.
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PSY 700 - Spring 2009: Week #8: How plugged in are you?
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Week #8: How plugged in are you? Week 8: May 4- May 10). As the ancient adage goes, fish don’t see the water. To McLuhan we are the fish and the tEcosystem is the water. And if we can’t unplug, who are we becoming as people, friends, citizens? First watch this very short clip in which Amazon founder Jeff Bezos explains the symbiotic, transactional nature of the human-tool relationship:. Bezos BBC interview clip about the Kindle. Second, read the following articles:. Am I Still Here? The End of Alone.
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PSY 700 - Spring 2009: Week #3: How does music persuade?
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Week #3: How does music persuade? Week 3: March 30- April 5). The Jaws theme can make Bambi appear evil. That is because music is one of the most manipulative media within the overall multi media collage. Music easily escapes our judgmental mind, slipping below our conscious radar, skewing how we feel about what we experience. Even Aristotle recognized this when he said in his book Politics. Go to my digital storytelling site that addresses the power of music in media. Compare HBO and network television.
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PSY 700 - Spring 2009: Week #7: How do media gate keepers operate?
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Week #7: How do media gate keepers operate? Week 7: April 27- May 3). Gate keeping is a term in wide use to describe those people, organizations or structures that control the flow of information, thus limiting what the rest of us can know by virtue of the decisions they make about what we are allowed to experience. The goal of this activity is to better understand how media gate keepers operate. To better understand the concept of gate keeping,. First, watch The Photoshop Effect. The article examines so...
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PSY 700 - Spring 2009: February 2009
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Welcome to PSY 700, Critical Thinking, Spring 2009. This course provides a number of activities and exercises designed to challenge and expand your perceptions of media, and at the same time help you develop perceptual tools to help you see more clearly and evaluate more effectively the technology and media that populate your digital landscape. Nearly all of the materials needed for this class are found on the Internet. So, there are no books or media that you have to buy. This Film Is Not Yet Rated.
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PSY 700 - Spring 2009: Week #2: What are urban legends?
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Week #2: What are urban legends? Week 2: March 23-29). There is a good deal of storytelling going on in the media. Some is deliberate, some is inadvertent and some happens just because information exchanges hands so many times that error and embellishment become part of the public narrative. The goal of this activity is to look at the tension that exists between the proliferation of what are often referred to as “urban legends” and those who seek to distinguish fact from fiction. Sarah Palin's SAT scores.
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PSY 700 - Spring 2009: Beyond NSO - Weekly course topic matrix
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Beyond NSO - Weekly course topic matrix. Course and topic schedule, after NSO. NSO schedule, activities. Beyond NSO course schedule. Jason's Media Literacy/Tech Assessment Handbook. Beyond NSO Weekly assignments. Week 1 (3/16-22) Critical thinking. Week 2 (3/23-29) Urban Legends. Week 3 (3/30-4/5) Music skews. Week 4 (4/6-12) Word skews. Week 5 (4/13-19) OPTIONAL Bias on the web. Week 6 (4/20-26) Consumer psych. Week 7 (4/7-5/3) Gate keepers. Week 8 (5/4-10) Plugged in. Week 9 (5/11-17) Social media.
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PSY 700 - Spring 2009: Welcome to PSY 700, Critical Thinking, Spring 2009
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Welcome to PSY 700, Critical Thinking, Spring 2009. This course provides a number of activities and exercises designed to challenge and expand your perceptions of media, and at the same time help you develop perceptual tools to help you see more clearly and evaluate more effectively the technology and media that populate your digital landscape. Nearly all of the materials needed for this class are found on the Internet. So, there are no books or media that you have to buy. This Film Is Not Yet Rated.
