Your Media Habits, Explained by Science
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:51:07 -0700
Peter Renfrow, a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge, tracked the media consumption habits of 3,000 people and used the results to propose that there are essentially five types of media : communal, aesthetic, dark, thrilling, and cerebral. How you score on these dimensions, presumably, determines what you like to read or watch. A key finding was that the trends in people's genre ...
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3 iPad Apps that Reinvent News Reading
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:32:49 -0700
As news consumption shifts to the personalized social news stream, the platforms we use to consume the news are also changing.
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Peter Lehner: The Media, Climate Science, and Deniers: Time to Tell a New Story
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:30:08 -0700
It is hard to communicate a sense of urgency when you are writing about ice melting. I get the sense that some journalists handle this dilemma by reporting on climate change as if it were a sports event.
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