Shyam Sundar
Exploring Media Effects
What’s the impact of social media?
DISCUSSION
Technology
Some say it’s “the technology most adapted to the essence of the human species—sociability.” But is technology making us free—or permanently tethered?
ABOUT THE EPISODE
S. Shyam Sundar is the founder of the Media Effects Research Laboratory at Penn State, a leading facility of its kind in the country. We’ll talk with him about shifting norms and etiquette in the age of social media, about the reliability of online information, and about what interactivity might look like for future generations.
ABOUT THE GUEST
S. Shyam Sundar is the founder of the Media Effects Research Laboratory a leading facility of its kind in the country. He teaches courses in the psychology of communication technology, mass-communication theory, and research methodology. He holds joint faculty appointments in the departments of film-video and media studies, advertising, architecture, and communication arts and sciences at Penn State.
Sundar’s research investigates social and psychological effects of technological elements unique to Web-based mass-communication. He was among the first to publish refereed research on the effects of new media and was identified as the most published author of Internet-related research in the field of communications during the first decade of the Internet. A frequently cited source on technology, Sundar has testified before Congress as an expert witness and delivered talks at several universities in the United States, Germany, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Korea, China, and India.
More About Sundar
- Penn State College of Communcations: Shyam Sundar
- Podcast: Tweeting, Digging, Blogging: Communication in the Age of Interactivity
- Video: Shyam, Jazz DJ
More About Social Media
- Social Networking Watch
- 10 WOW Social Media Statistics
- History and Evolution of Social Media
- Mobile Phones in Developing Countries
- Wired: Why Kids Can’t Search
- 101 Social Media Marketing Terms Explained
- Center for Media Literacy
PENN STATE CONNECTION
WHERE TO WATCH
WPSU
February
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