Please enjoy the Fall/Winter 2023 issue of The Amplifier Magazine. In its pages, we hear from our Executive Board, Media Psychology Greats and new student voices. I sincerely thank everyone who contributed their time and wisdom. I also want to extend a warm welcome to Perry Reed, who helped co-edit this issue and will go…
A tribute to the outgoing editor
V. Krishna Kumar, PhD kkumar@wcupa.edu TV news carried it, as did the Wall Street Journal on the front page (August 19, 2016) and on the opinion page (p. 11, August 27-28, 2016), and widely reported in the media—the image of a young boy pulled from the rubble of airstrikes in Aleppo. Other examples include the…
V. Krishna Kumar, PhD kkumar@wcupa.edu Internet can be a great self-help media for young and old alike to exchange information, shop, and stay connected, informed, and entertained. By no means, what some seniors do is passive (e.g., read online news, watch videos); the 2014 Pew Research Survey notes that seniors (56%) go online to communicate…
V. Krishna Kumar, PhD Kkumar@wcupa.edu E-mail, a truly great invention, is increasingly replacing paper mail for most purposes. We regularly receive e-mails in more than one e-mail account from banks, various doctors’ clinics, automobile dealers (a price you pay for bargain shopping), automobile associations, travel agencies, hotels where you stayed, retailers, newsletters, newspapers, periodicals,…
V. Krishna Kumar, PhD kkumar@wcupa.edu In the early 1960s some university and technical training centers in the USA and former USSR employed electronic student response systems during lectures to measure student’s comprehension via multiple-choice items. Students responded by pressing response keys, usually five or fewer, and the percentages of students selecting various options were displayed…
Governments, Corporations, Hackers and You
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