Amazing Stuff: The Film and Video Edition
Social and video media are the topic of this week’s Amazing Stuff: from social policy to documentaries, I highlight video sharing and creating sites that inspired me over the past week.
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Storytelling in the Age of Twitter
Our tweets and Facebook posts provide us with new ways to tell stories that can be as rich as traditional methods. By viewing these narrative fragments in context, we can learn a lot about our world and the way that we communicate.
Amazing Stuff: November 14th Edition
What we eat, how we produce the food we eat, whether our healthcare is environmentally sustainable, and how mobile technologies can help connect teens to health and filmmakers to audiences is all part of this week’s edition of Amazing Stuff.
Seeing Simplicity / Seeing Complexity
We often confuse simplicity and complexity, which can have harmful effects on our health and social wellbeing. The confusion between the complex and the simple as it relates to public health is discussed in this look at issues like vaccination and cigarette smoking.
Cohesion vs. Diversity
Systems function well at the ‘edge of chaos’. In social systems that means balancing diversity with cohesion, but there are aspects to both that are troubling and may be highly incompatible. Can we have both or do we have to sacrifice one for the other?
e(un)Health
Is the ‘e’ part of eHealth working at cross purposes with our wellbeing? The speed, volume and complexity of information online and the myriad ways we access such information may be leading to new types of illnesses and problems as it solves others.
eHealth Isn’t Rocket Science…But Maybe it Should Be
We can learn a lot from the Ansari X-Prize for space that can be applied to the woeful problems of eHealth.
The Organic – Health debate
Focusing on nutrients in the organic-health debate is missing the point on the benefits to the environment and social determinants of health of organics.
Obesity the new tobacco?
Is obesity the new tobacco? The parallels are striking.
Censemaking
What is censemaking and why is it here?