Psychology of Media & Technology

There are a lot of physical changes when you become a mom.  Some research suggests that pregnancy impairs memory temporarily. It certainly was true for me, although I think that's nature's way of making the next kid seem like a good idea.  (It was.) The hormonal changes also increase the drive to connect and heighten sensitivity to danger to protect your young -- all of which makes sense from an evolutionary perspective.  Thus we gain vigilance and lose the ability to sleep deeply through the night and movies with gore or child abduction lose their appeal.  #mediapsychology #parenting #fightorflight #scarymovies

We rarely consider the weight of our choices in media, but every choice, whether to go to a theater or on TV is casting a vote for programming.  As a society, we happily "blame" the media for the lack of programming we want to see (or the depths to which we think it has sunk, but seldom take responsibility for our contribution to what we see and the media choices we have.  This billboard Op-Ed by Stephen Daw sums it up nicely:  Love, Simon is the exactly the kind of representation that we want to see more of, so consider a ticket to Love, Simon as an investment in the future of entertainment so that studio executives will have less of an excuse to not make diverse stories for the silver screen.