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From Fall/Winter 2008 The Amplifier, a Media Psychology newsletter published by the American Psychological Association:
By Lawrence Kutner
Blogs are powerful, ubiquitous and notoriously inaccurate. Just before Grand Theft Childhood was published, Cheryl did an interview with the proprietor of a small, specialized blog named gamecouch.com. It was a quiet way, we thought, to test the response of the gamer community to our findings and to find out what questions we hadn’t anticipated so that we could better prepare to answer them. The interviewer did an excellent job of presenting our nuanced findings and recommendations.
Within a matter of hours, excerpts from that interview appeared on dozens of blogs. By the end of the week, that number had grown exponentially to many hundreds…
Kutner continues to say that, at that point, it turned into a game of telephone with their findings being distorted to support agendas and then those distortions became distorted.
The full article is an interesting read about how the Internet has changed the landscape of book publishing and has interesting bits like: “When we were plotting our media strategy, we realized that we didn’t want to get on ABC-TV’s Good Morning America as much as we wanted to be on G4 network’s X-Play.”
Silvercube:
Congrats I guess?
I remember that article when you posted it :)
I hope people sited you properly.. plagiarism these days… yeesh.