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Are streets in Natomas made for walking and biking?

The four-part series "Streetwise: Walking & Biking In Natomas" examined whether efforts to create a healthy, walkable and bikeable community in Natomas have been successful.

SXSW Interactive: Examining health and Facebook with Aimee Roundtree

Many media and health advocacy groups take for granted these days that Twitter and Facebook are essential to reach readers and constituents. But a panel at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive shed new light on how we use those social media tools. Aimee Roundtree, an associate communications professor at the University of Houston-Downtown, has been examining health communication in social media for five years. She says health advocacy groups are using Facebook the same way they would traditional media.

Julie Albright

Julie Albright is a lecturer in sociology at USC, as well as a licensed marriage and family therapist. Her research focuses on the intersection of culture and communication, social psychology and relationships/family. She studies modern courtship and dating, including a qualitative study of men who are "players" and the women who date them. Her current projects include a survey on body image and reactions to plastic surgery makeover shows, which will result in a book chapter and content for a documentary film titled "Made Over in America," for which she is associate producer.

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