Links of Interest

Many, many thanks to Marcia Zorn from the National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health, for passing on these links:

AGED / ELDERLY / LIFE COURSE

 Global Telemedicine and the Elderly, eHealth International Journal V.3#1 March 2007 R Bashshur
 http://www.ehealthinternational.org/vol3num1.htm
 Archive of eHealth International Journal http://www.ehealthinternational.org//archive.htm

CLINICAL COMM / PROVIDER-PT COMM / PATIENT-CENTERED COMM / MED ED

 On-line between Dr and Pt http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2007/01/on-line-between-doctors-and- patients.html

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMM (CMC) / HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI) / CREDIBILITY & DIGITAL MEDIUM / 

Bibliography on Web / Internet Credibility (digital media) compiled by Andrew Flanagin and Miriam Metzger, 36 p. April 2007 http://www.credibility.ucsb.edu/files/bibliography.pdf

Guides to Finding Credible Information Online , a list of "best practices" that will help you find quality information on the Web: http://www.credibility.ucsb.edu/finding_credible_info.php

Credibility & Digital Media homepage of Metzger & Flanagan’s Credibility in the Digital World project with more links http://www.credibility.ucsb.edu/index.php

Will Security Enhance Trust Online, or Supplant It? (pdf) by H. Nissenbaum,--argues for surety vs. trust.  From  P. Kramer and K. Cook (eds.) Trust and Distrust within Organizations: Emerging Perspectives, Enduring Questions, Russell Sage Publications, 2004. 155-188. http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/papers/trust.pdf

DIVERSITY / CULTURAL /  MULTICULTURAL / ETHNICITY / CROSS OR MULTI-CULTURAL

New American Media Web site: “The First & Largest Collaboration of Ethnic News Organizations”
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/

Attitudes and Trends in Radio among Hispanics report by Edison Media Research and Arbitron (presented at Radio Ink's Hispanic Radio Conference/May 2007) look at Hispanics and their perceptions of media and radio, and usage of digital platforms, including online radio and iPods. Presentation (PDF) at http://www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/Radio%20Ink%20Hispanic%20Presentation.pdf

E-JOURNALS

The British Journal of Healthcare Computing & Information Management at http://www.bjhcim.co.uk/ moved to a new publisher and is now Open Access. An announcement is at http://www.bjhc.co.uk/news/1/2007/n706001.htm

Health Care & Informatics Review Online July 2007 issue http://hcro.enigma.co.nz/website/index.cfm 

EDUTAINMENT

HIVV/AIDS, soap operas and young viewers: exploring the intersection of media effects and reception analysis & its implications for health communication by R. Obregón,  Investigación y Desarrollo  2005 V13 # 2 p.250 -279 http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/src/inicio/ArtPdfRed.jsp?iCve=26813202

ENVIRONMENT / GLOBAL WARMING

Game: CO2FX is a web based multi-user educational game which explores the relationship of global warming to economic, political & science policy decisions http://www.globalwarminginteractive.com/

Game: Inspector Carbone has been assigned by the Mayor to clean up Ecoville. To do this, he must visit each house in a neighborhood, & convince the residents to improve their devices and habits. http://a.parsons.edu/~project_lab/?q=node/150

GAMES / GAMING

AMA Document Video Games press release http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/17770.html

Emotional and Behavioral Effects of Video Games and Internet Overuse (A-07) Full Text Featured Report: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/17694.html

More than a game: New wave of video games have health benefits http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/07/23/bisa0723.htm

Articles about the AMA document: AMA Backs Down From Video Game Addiction by N Breckon 6/25/07 http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/47603 & Reuters  story at http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN2425415820070624?pageNumber=1

Evidence for publication bias in video game violence effects literature: A meta-analytic review by Christopher J. Ferguson, Texas A&M International Univ  5 De 2006; accepted 26 Jan 2007. Available online 3 Feb 2007. An abstract of his article in Aggression and Violent Behavior is at http://tinyurl.com/2cl3v5.

The National Summit on Video Games, Youth and Public Policy (invitation only) Oct. 21-22, 2006, Web site has links to many full text research articles, other http://www.mediafamily.org/videogame2006summit/index.shtml?utm_source=weekly&utm_medium=weekly&utm_campaign=7_12_07_summitsite
Research articles linked to http://www.mediafamily.org/videogame2006summit/publications.shtml 

HEALTH PROMOTION

Virtual Community Health Promotion Virtual Community Health Promotion,
Richard Crespo, Prev Chronic Dis. 2007 July; 4(3): A75. Published online
2007 June 15.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=195
5425&blobtype=pdf

Message Framing, Use of Interactive Technology to Tailor Messages, and Intervention Intensity by MK Fox, et al Jun 2007 10 p. Nutrition Education Research Brief: http://www.fns.usda.gov/oane/MENU/Published/NutritionEducation/Files/LitReview_Brief.pdf

ICT / IT / INTERNET / USABILITY / ACCESSIBILITY

Embodying Values in Technology Aug 31 2007 DRAFT by Mary Flanagan, Daniel Howe, Helen Nissenbaum (64 p. paper) http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/papers/Nissenbaum-VID.4-25.pdf

New Research Norms for a New Medium by H. Nissenbaum in The Commodification of Information.  N. Elkin-Koren and N. Netanel (eds), 2002. 433-457. (26 p. paper up-side-down) http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/papers/research_norms.pdf

Internet & Society 2007 Conference MANY links http://www.is2k7.org/ (Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society Cambridge, MA May 31-Jun 1, 2007)

Where Does the U.S. Really Stand on Broadband and Do Policy Makers Have the Tools to Know? http://www.benton.org/?q=node/6256

Technology & Media Use: Home Broadband Adoption 2007, Pew Internet Report June 2007: by John Horrigan & Aaron Smith 47% of adults have high-speed internet connections at home as of early March 2007 14p Memo http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Broadband%202007.pdf
Other recent reports & memos re: Technology & Media http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/c/1/topics.asp

Internet Passes Radio, Closes in on Television as “Most Essential” Medium in American Life (7 p. summary of Edison Res Rept, 2007) http://www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/Q3%20Media%20Perceptions%20-%20large%20slides%20_2_.pdf

The Infinite Dial 2007: Radio's Digital Platforms, Edison Media Research & Arbitron follow-up to Infinite Dial study explores the digital audio platforms (radio, podcasting, other) & implications
Summary Report http://www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/Infinite%20Dial%202007_Report.pdf
Press Release http://www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/Infinite%20Dial%202007_Press%20Release%20%282%29.doc

The Podcast Audience Revealed - New 2007 Podcasting Statistics report first delivered at the Corporate Podcasting Summit in London, UK on March 19th, 2007 with data derived from the upcoming Arbitron/Edison Media Research Internet and Multimedia 2007 Study. Presentation Slides at http://www.edisonresearch.com/2007%20Podcast%20Presentation.pdf
Tom Webster's Analysis http://www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/2007/03/2007_podcast_statistics_analysis.php
It updates a first Podcasting study at http://www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/2006/07/the_podcast_con.php

Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media [pdf] http://ncam.wgbh.org/

Don’t Leave Me Out! Designing Usable and Accessible Web Sites May 2007 Ginny Redish
http://www.stc.org/54thConf/sessions/sessionMaterials05.asp?ID=57

LITERACY

Online Information Seeking Behavior bibliography by Azy Barak http://construct.haifa.ac.il/~azy/refinfo.htm
More by Barak at http://construct.haifa.ac.il/~azy/refindx.htm

Formal and substantial Internet information skills: The role of socio-demographic differences on the possession of different componentsof digital literacy by Marco Gui First Monday
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_9/gui/

Over my med body! blog health literacy entry http://www.grahamazon.com/2007/06/on-health-literacy/
(Blog owner is a medical student, Graham Walker http://graham.typepad.com/about.html)

MARKETING / ADVERTISING

Drowned Out: Alcohol Industry "Responsibility" Advertising on Television, 2001-2005 Center for Alcohol Marketing & Youth. Exec Summary at http://camy.org/research/responsibility2007/responsibility2007execsum.pdf
Complete report at http://camy.org/research/responsibility2007/responsibility2007.pdf
Press release at http://camy.org/press/release.php?ReleaseID=41
CAMY article at http://camy.org/research/responsibility2007/
Five Technology Trends Impacting Consumer & Physician eMarketing (Opinion Leader Roundtable 9 slides manhattanResearch) http://www.manhattanresearch.com/files/opinion_leader_roundtable/Manhattan_Research_Roundtable_2007.pdf

For the First Time Since Ad Icon was Introduced in 1955, Philip Morris Ran No Ads for Cigarette Brand in Consumer Media by AdAge.com article by B Johnson Jun 25, 2007 http://adage.com/article?article_id=118741

MASS COMM / MASS MEDIA

Mass Media and Medicine: When the Most Trusted Media Mislead (Editorial) JM Fishman Mayo Clin Proc. 2006;81:291-293 © 2006 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/inside.asp?AID=1666&UID=
http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/pdf%2F8103%2F8103e1%2Epdf

Covering Health Issues: A Sourcebook for Journalists http://www.allhealth.org/sourcebook2006/toc.asp 

Moving Experiences, 2nd edition: Media effects and beyond, new ways of exploring media influences, recently published Chapter one at http://www.theory.org.uk/david/book7-extract.htm 

Theoretical Framework: Multi-Year Mass Media Campaign Plan (14 p. Dec 2004) http://www.fsis.usda.gov/PDF/BFS_Theoretical_Framework.pdf

The PAUSE campaign (Fox Network Group & the Kaiser Family Foundation) debuted on American Idol. It targets ages 15+ to promote smart choices on issues including teen pregnancy, STDs, substance use, & online safety, & information briefings for Fox producers & writers to help incorporate messages in entertainment programs.  The PSA is at http://www.kff.org/entpartnerships/fox/psas.cfm

InsiderMedicine Video news in MULTIPLE languages
http://www.insidermedicine.ca/insidermedicine-video-site-map.aspx
For example, Chinese explanation of New Treatment for Young Women with Breast Cancer May 21, 2007 http://www.insidermedicine.ca/Archives/New_Treatment_for_Young_Women_with_Breast_Cancer_1121.aspx
 “Homepage” http://www.insidermedicine.ca/home.aspx
About InsiderMedicine http://www.insidermedicine.ca/daily-health-videocasts-about.aspx

Ten things wrong with the media 'effects' model by D. Gauntlett http://www.theory.org.uk/tenthings.htm

MEDIA EDUCATION / MEDIA LITERACY

What Wikipedia Can Teach Us about the New Media Literacies (Part 1) Henry Jenkins' keynote for the National Media Education Conference 6/26/07 http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/06/what_wikipedia_can_teach_us_ab.html
Jenkins proposes that Wikipedia is a new kind of knowledge production.
Part 2 at http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/06/what_wikipedia_can_teach_us_ab_1.html

MISCELLANEOUS

 "ALL" WWW facts from ITFacts at http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P8517

 E-Health: Where, When and How you want it presentation by Janice Nall,who worked in the NCI 
 Communication Technologies Branch &  was one ofthe team members who created "Research-Based
 Web Design & Usability Guidelines"  ( http://www.usability.gov  - see also  recent update info at http://www.usability.gov/pdfs/updatedguidelines.html ) . The Guidelines were an
 outgrowth of the team's experience with the NCI's usability efforts.
 http://www.cdccancerconference.net/Presentations/ET8.0/ET8.0_Nall.pdf

 iRhetoric Placeshifting: A New Media Approach to Teaching Classical Rhetoric
 http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.3/binder.html?topoi/rice/index.htm

 First Principles of Communications Privacy by Susan Freiwald re:insufficiency of the reasonable  
 expectation of privacy test in the context of modern communications. Significantly, courts have required
 that communications media be virtually invulnerable before affording them Fourth Amendment
 protection http://stlr.stanford.edu/pdf/freiwald-first-principles.pdf
Audio from Susan Freiwald's presentation of her paper at the 2007 STLR Symposiusm can be accessed at: http://voirdire.stanford.edu/student-orgs/stlr/20070126_STLR_Freiwald-28 k.mp4

Online videos catch on: Web sites and publishers plan video offerings, but will researchers embrace the new medium? By Matthew Busse  TheScientist NEWS: 22nd Aug 2007
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53500/

TECHNOLOGY

 Public Access Computing Technology Competencies (April 2007)
 http://data.webjunction.org/wj/documents/15575.pdf

Technology and the Generation Gap by Genevieve Zook
http://www.llrx.com/features/generationgap.htm

TELEVISION

Media Violence Apr 2006 FCC Report http://www.c-span.org/pdf/fcc_tvviolence.pdf

"Understanding Teletubbies"  at www.pbskids.org/teletubbies/parentsteachers/progphilo.html explains the educational crafting of the show.

Parental Controls and Online Child Protection: A Survey of Tools and Methods at http://www.pff.org/parentalcontrols

Five years later: Media Perceptions from 2002 to 2007 by Edison Media Research. Internet passes radio & closes in on TV as "most essential" medium in American life. Summary Report at http://www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/Q3%20Media%20Perceptions%20-%20large%20slides%20_2_.pdf
Press Release at http://www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/Q3%20Media%20Perceptions%20-%20Press%20Release%20for%20Campaign%26Website.doc

VISUAL

Away with words: designing wordless instructions for international audiences P.Hofmann 85 slides
http://www.stc.org/54thConf/sessions/sessionMaterials05.asp?ID=111#337

Syllabus From Seminar in Visual Communication (Sandra Moriarty is a professor in the Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) grad program in the School of Journalism & Mass Comm, U Colorado-Boulder) http://spot.colorado.edu/~moriarts/vcsyllabus.html
Links to articles from her homepage at http://spot.colorado.edu/~moriarts/index.html
E.g., Visual Communication Theory: A Search for Roots at http://spot.colorado.edu/~moriarts/vctheorysurvey.html