Indeed! I actually just reposted it on my Behavioral Science & Health Education class discussion board as an example of applying the Theory of Social Support, Networks, and Coping (which is just what it sounds like: public health theory is not rocket science . . . although I don't know why rocket science should be so epistemologically privileged, come to think of it) within the ICTs in health communication context. --kathy mancuso

From: "Ericka Menchen Trevino" <emtrevino@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Air-l] overstated media inference from fine study To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org

Thanks for sharing this. I think it's a good example for an introductory course if you want to show the importance of academic sources and the difference between academic research and journalism. -Ericka Menchen Trevino

clipping barry's response for space:

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Social Isolation Growing in U.S., Study Says The Number of People Who Say They Have No One to Confide In Has Risen

-- . . . connection in an isolating age . . . Katherine Mancuso, graduate student, Emory University Web 2.0 research, life, and meta: http://museumfreak.livejournal.com, http://del.icio.us/museumfreak, http://www.last.fm/museumfreak, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Museumfreak "You remind me that 'It's not all about the programming, stupid!'"--Vicki Hertzberg, on me "'When is the moment that experientially you experienced what it was to be a cyborg?', Donna Haraway's answer was fabulous: 'I guess it would have to be the first time I realized how like a leaf I am.'" --Thyrza Goodeve