Is anyone aware of any attempt to do a " n degrees of separation"
experiment using cell phones?
Given the widespread of such mobile units and texting, it may be
possible, within the span of a 3-hour class, to get a final answer
rather quickly... say, How many of you students can a link to .
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Hi All
Chris and Joan make good points. My perception is colored by the fact
that most of the journalists I know are independent war correspondents
or report in genocide ravaged areas. Not work for the faint of heart
but work th
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=seymour+hersh&aq=1&oq=seymo&aqi=g10
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/31/seymour_hersh_on_syria_calling_the
What we are seeing so much of is the sheep mentality of the media.
Someone somewhere creates the "conventional wisdom" of a certain event and
everyon
Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D. wrote:
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> My hat's off to all journalists! These folks often risk their lives
> and freedom every day to bring us news from around the globe.
>
Perhaps a few do. The days of Woodward and Bernstein are long behind us,
however. More and more (with fewer and fewer investiga
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Hi All,
Such a requirement for psychology majors might not make sense but for
journalism majors, this seems a realistic requirement. Although the
use of an iPhone vs. Blackberry certainly could be debated (Go Apple!),
the ability
On Tue, 26 May 2009 09:02:28 -0700, Carol L DeVolder:
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>Interesting twist...
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> http://tinyurl.com/ojymyt
To quote from the article:
|Missouri University Makes Apple iPhone a Course Requirement
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|According to the website for the Missouri University School of
|Journalism, "Effective Fall 20
You might want to look into the Books for Africa program in Minnesota.
http://www.booksforafrica.org/
Bill Scott
>>> Beth Benoit 05/26/09 9:43 AM >>>
Once again, my bookshelves are overflowing with older textbooks, teachers'
manuals, etc. I think the Florida school system is probably overwhel
On one of my lists, someone in the past week or so had requested a source
for clips of classic research in psych. I wasn't sure of the name of the
source when I read the email, and now that I have the info, I can't find the
email.
For anyone who wants to know, Worth Publishers used to have
Interesting twist...
http://tinyurl.com/ojymyt
Carol
Carol L. DeVolder, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Chair, Department of Psychology
St. Ambrose University
518 West Locust Street
Davenport, Iowa 52803
Phone: 563-333-6482
e-mail: devoldercar...@sau.edu
web: http://web.sau.edu/psycholog
The story made the morning news in SanDiego, so I guess this is going to get
around rather widely to the public.
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
619-260-4006
tay...@sandiego.edu
Original message --
And if it's the Dr. Laura I'm thinking of, her PhD is in physiology.
All the more reason to ignore her -- as if there weren't already a dozen good
ones...
--
Marc Carter, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
Baker University
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Mike - my daughter reminds me of that very point quite frequently!
Marie
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>PS. My parents were driven insane by my non-stop talking on the phone
>when I was a teenager (in part because no one could call us or use the
>phone when I was using it). Teenagers always seem to find ways to do
>an
On Tue, 26 May 2009 06:20:12 -0700, Helweg-Larsen, Marie wrote:
>I had two other reactions to the article. First, I'm also skeptical of the
>"new technology will make us all go to hell" media coverage.
Oh, it's just another sign of the impending apocalyse (2012?) ;-)
>I'm sure there are teenage
Once again, my bookshelves are overflowing with older textbooks, teachers'
manuals, etc. I think the Florida school system is probably overwhelmed
with all of the books I sent there a couple of years ago.
Does anyone have any use for them, or know somewhere that would be grateful
for them? They'r
Hi
It would be interesting to see the data on which some of these statistics are
based. What is the distribution of uses like? Does a mean of several
thousand suggest some people have extremely high numbers (i.e., skewed
distribution like RTs)? I'm not sure what the implication (if any) is
I had two other reactions to the article. First, I'm also skeptical of the "new
technology will make us all go to hell" media coverage. I'm sure there are
teenagers who will abuse (to detrimental psychological effects) any activity
(technological or otherwise). I do think cell phones and texting
On Mon, 25 May 2009 22:02:04 -0400, Christopher D. Green wrote:
>Generally speaking, I am skeptical of the popular
>computers-are-killing-our-children genre of news report. However,
>"American teenagers sent and received an average of *2, 272 text
>messages per month* in the fourth quarter of 20
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