User:Pamelarutledge

Pamela B. Rutledge, PhD, MBA, is a media psychologist and Director of the Media Psychology Research Center. One of the first people to hold a doctorate in the field of media psychology, she is active in the promotion of positive use of media technologies, experience design, consumer psychology, media messaging, transmedia storytelling, and the social implications of emerging technologies. A consultant, speaker, author, researcher, and professor, her expertise is the application of positive and cognitive psychologies to media experience and development. She is a contributor to PsychologyToday.com on the blog "Positively Media" and develops and teaches courses in social media psychology, consumer psychology, and transmedia storytelling for marketing and social causes for Fielding Graduate University, UCLA extension and UC Irvine extension. She is a member of the advisory board of UC Irvine Extension's Internet and Social Media Marketing Certificate. She is also an academic consultant for the Massachusetts School of Psychology, helping to develop and launch an intensive, 10-month masters degree program in applied media psychology as part of their new 21st Century Psychology Programs.

Rutledge has a background in communications and graphic design, business management, and psychology with a specialization in media.