Kathryn Stamoulis Kestamoulis@hotmail.com There’s no denying that our culture has experienced seismic changes over the past decade brought about by digital innovation. In the early months of 2018 alone, our President tweeted out threats of nuclear war to the world, our Facebook data was stolen and used to manipulate us, and students in Parkland, Florida…
June Wilson, PhD junewilsonphd@gmail.com Over the past weeks we have all witnessed the good, the bad, and the ugly of social media leaving many to ponder the role social media has in our lives. The Good On February 14, 2018 a gunman with an AR-15 semi-assault rifle entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas (MSD) high school and…
Chair: Kathryn Stamoulis, PhD The Nominations and Elections committee is pleased to report the election of V. Krishna Kumar, PhD, as President-Elect. In addition, Frank Farley, PhD, and Jerri Lynn Hogg, PhD, have both been elected to serve as Member-at-Large. Many thanks to those who ran and voted in the 2018 elections.
Chris Ferguson cjfergus@stetson.edu At the August 2017 meeting of the APA, we had our biannual meeting of the Council of Representatives. What follows is an update on some of the important issues going on in Council. As usual, these highlights popped up for me while I was at the meeting and from ongoing Council listserv…
Frank Farley, PhD Temple University frank.farley@temple.edu Ayse N. Olgun, Bachelor of Theology, Currently Psychology Student Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey olgunayseolgun@gmail.com Review of IT Director: Andy Muschinetti We suppose the attention being given to the movie IT, a remake of the 1990 version, is due in part to its origins in the writing of Stephen King…
V. Krishna Kumar, PhD kkumar@wcupa.edu The film industry has produced hundreds of notable films that depict the effects of various horrors (e.g., holocaust, genocide) and social injustices (e.g., racial, ethnic, and gender prejudices) in the “so called” developing and developed societies. Many films also depict how a few courageous individuals have fought hard to bring…
Mary Gregerson, PhD Media First Response Special Interest Group Chair mary.gregerson@aol.com Division 46 Outreach Since 2014 when I was elected to the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 46 Presidential pipeline, I have led an effort called “Media First Response” (MFR). In this trans-Divisional effort, key Division 46 Members have collaborated with other APA Divisions’ key…
