Kiran Bhatia, Ph.D.’s Post

Thanks to WMUK for this media coverage for the website launch of Wonder Media: Ask the Questions! Here's the first! Check out www.wondermedialibrary.com to learn more about how to be a smart, savvy consumer of news, information and all media.

More media coverage of Wonder Media: Ask the Questions! Listen to learn more about the project and why it's important. Check out the website at: www.wondermedialibrary.com

📢 The latest 'Children's Media Lives 2024' from Ofcom, via Revealing Reality, heightening again the need to define what we mean by social media in any discussion of it. 🖋 "Children are primarily looking at visual media – images and videos – not interacting with other people. The content they see in their feeds is increasingly professionalised and commercialised – as social media has become bigger and bigger business, it’s changed the way people use it." 🔎 These important reports do highlight the critical need for real time monitoring of impacts, and the challenge of longitudinal research. ✔ Much to digest, but the 5Rights report, from Alexandra Evans and colleagues, and its reference to cumulative harms is spot on: 💰 "Most of what children now see on social media was created by someone with the deliberate goal of capturing attention, garnering ‘likes’ or building a following – and it’s often their job to do this."

Interesting article exploring how young people make sense of their rural identity. Implications for rural policies: 1. Rural young adults can have parallel future horizons - importance of flexible futures and opportunities 2. Maintaining a rural location for mobile young adults - supporting functional rural identities 3. Promoting regional rural identities to raise awareness of the benefits that access to both rural and urban areas can bring 🌱How can insights like these support recruitment and retention of young people in healthcare careers in rural areas? 🌱How do we privide flexibility of future horizons and access to rural and urban benefits? #ruralhealth #ruralhealthcareers #ruralcommunitites #ruralEurope #stayingrural

October 21-25 is National Media Literacy Week. We've identified some tips that will help you engage more consciously with the media you consume, be it interesting, rage-inducing, meaningful, or entertaining. https://lnkd.in/g8WdAuts

In today's digital age, social media platforms have become powerful tools for fostering community, sharing information, and engaging in meaningful discussions. While often associated with superficial interactions and viral trends, these platforms can also serve as valuable spaces for promoting participatory democracy. By joining the right social media groups, individuals can actively engage in conversations on important issues, contribute to decision-making processes, and ultimately shape the future of their communities.

The fierce battle between the candidates for president has led to an unprecedented explosion of disinformation. I share my thoughts in the latest edition of The Society for Media Psychology & Technology's publication, The Amplifier. https://lnkd.in/g5skvE94

Attention everyone working to rebuild local media: Public Media Company just received a significant grant from the Knight Foundation to help address the crisis in local news. The new initiative will provide data on your community’s local news ecosystem, the status of local public and community media, as well as local demographic and funding insights. It also will include "practical information on how local media organizations can and are addressing local inequities, including examples, case studies, guides, and more individualized support from Public Media Company staff." https://lnkd.in/ejPKYuMe

#NewYork / #Florida NPR #Rare #Radio - What we’re doing is unprecedented, we’re literally creating the blueprint as we go. This initiative is called Social Media Harm Reduction, and it represents a new approach to how we engage with and manage social media. We're not just addressing surface-level issues; we’re using specialized social media aid methods to focus on the entire well-being of the user. This means considering both their online and offline lives, understanding that their digital and real-world identities are deeply interconnected. By addressing the whole self, we aim to mitigate the potential harms of social media and promote a healthier, more balanced relationship with these platforms. 😅Since yall like timestamps: February 11th 2019 - MONDAY I was at University of South Florida meeting with faculty about their the Advisory Board offer and ended on a radio show introducing “ Social Media Awareness “ … #Misinformation #Innovation #Terminology #History

Ever wonder how productive you really are? Anamarie Gennara's dissertation, with the help of #Connect participants, has led to a scale that measures just that. Dive into her study and more at https://hubs.li/Q02tYSg00 #onlineresearch #phchat #AcademicChatter #productivity #participantrecruitment #onlinesurveys