It has been almost a year since my mom died. What do you learn from this awful situation? Is there any wisdom to be gleaned? Any silver lining? I think there might be. Everything I need to know (about death, dying and loss), I learned in Kindergarten the year after my mom died. I didn’t […]
The headline is shocking: 8-year-old Chinese girl is youngest to be diagnosed with lung cancer. A disease typically relegated to those at the end of their lives is creeping into the younger generations in China, as the country experiences rapid-fire economic growth. China’s economy is the second largest in the world and large urban (and […]
I’ve worked as social media specialist for the American College of Chest Physicians for just over two years. Each year, it is in my realm of responsibility to coordinate our own social media presence at this meeting, but also to encourage and cheerlead for our meeting attendees (and non-attendees) to get involved. It has been […]
I’ve been assigned a task as a final project in my New Media Studies grad class to examine a local information ecology. A “local information ecology,” you ask? In the book Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart, Nardi and O’Day discuss several topics including the concept that if you look at technology and information ecologies […]
After reading Jose Van Dijck’s The Culture of Connectivity, I wanted to explore some of the social media platforms surveyed by Van Dijck, under the lens of healthcare. Healthcare social media has been a slowly evolving concept and idea. Many health professionals are, rightly so, concerned with patient privacy, HIPAA, and the idea of their […]
Healthcare social media (#hcsm) is a bustling area of the online world. Digital resources are becoming common practice, those living with rare diseases are finding their home, and water cooler talk is hopping on Twitter. Healthcare is evolving; as is the role of how social and new media are being used in healthcare. Here are […]
We’ve all seen it. Facebook comes out with new privacy settings or new verbiage in the site’s Terms of Service. Or maybe they don’t make a change at all and your poor friends are falling for a real life Facebook Privacy Hoax (FPH). Side note: someone copyright FPH, because it happens all the time! A […]
This weekend, I’m not checking out of technology- vowing to stay off Twitter, stopping the pinning on Pinterest, or changing my Facebook password, but I am going old school. I’m writing letters. I was inspired to write after the readings in my New Media Studies course, but was also reminded about the power of letter […]
Depression. Anxiety. Adolescent angst. The tail end of Turkle’s book, Alone Together, focuses on topics of betrayal, escapism, anxiety, and how technology impacts each of these areas. Turkle relies on extreme cases, but I saw a lot of powerful insights in the areas she explored. Examples of individuals struggling with employment, social interaction and life […]
I enjoyed the readings for this week’s class. And as a parent, I found myself feeling really nervous about parenting two girls who will someday have to experience adolescence. ETA: It wasn’t the about the technology. It was more about the fact that ohmygod isn’t it really hard to be a teenager? Ever? 1960. 1990. […]
Kristi Bruno 