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Crowdsourcing Ignorance: A Fault With Social Media
Posted by: Michael on: July 7, 2008
As The Times of India reports China’s warning for the Dalai Lama to not disrupt the Olympic Games opening next month, it will be interesting to keep an eye on how social media promotes both sides’ perspective in the battle for public opinion.
We know, with the case of Wikipedia, misinformation is usually corrected through crowdsourcing, [...]
Give and Take on ‘Sorry’: Balancing the Scales of Justice
Posted by: Michael on: June 25, 2008
As a follow-up to my pro-apology post, I’m going to present an anti-apology case.
At the World Conference on Disaster Management, Norm Keith from Gowlings, a law firm with a specialty in health and workplace safety, gave a presentation on legal issues surrounding emergency management and response. He mentioned that his firm was defending a client [...]
T-dot Reputational Editorializing
Posted by: Michael on: June 19, 2008
In Toronto, I see myself as a sort of cultural anthropologist – a westerner peering into the lives, habits, customs and mores of Torontonians. This morning I picked up The Star and saw an editorial by Bob Hepburn. I figure he must be at least somewhat influential in this concrete other-world.
The article, “A summer [...]
Armchair Analysis: Does the Calgary Zoo have a Lingering Crisis?
Posted by: Michael on: May 14, 2008
As listeners of my podcast know, I wrote my Master’s paper on the phenomenon of the lingering crisis, a typology first characterized by DeVries and Fitzpatrick in a study on the Smithsonian National Zoo.
My paper consists of a meta-analysis of the Zoo case, Dow Corning’s breast implant crisis, Denny’s restaurants’ discrimination crisis, and the [...]
The Internship has Landed
Posted by: Michael on: May 8, 2008
I have been hired by Artemis PR & Design, and today was my first day as a summer intern.
Artemis is an integrated agency that, on the public relations side, does stuff like focus groups, comms plans, market surveys, media relations, coalition building, stakeholder relations, crisis comms, and social marketing – the kind of [...]
Discovering Ethics for Working in PR
Posted by: Michael on: April 26, 2008
After a long, drawn-out discussion on ethics in PR, Joe Thornley phoned into Inside Public Relations 108 refuting the claim that PR practitioners are “just like lawyers [who] can work for clients who may be…ethically dubious because everyone deserves a good public relations defence in the same way everyone is entitled to legal defence.”
Instead, [...]
Do you Believe? Media Agnosticism and Blurring Lines.
Posted by: Michael on: April 24, 2008
Last week, I attended the CPRS Vancouver Island Media Crawl. We visited two newspapers, two TV news stations, and one radio station. We also got lunchtime talks from a CP reporter and a community cable manager.
As I furiously scribbled notes throughout the Crawl, a theme emerged: media agnosticism. This means that instead of outlets only [...]
Navigating the Grey: The Promise of a Future for Newspapers
Posted by: Michael on: April 16, 2008
Classified advertisements began moving online 15 years ago, blunting revenues and tolling the bellicose fog horn of “caution ahead” for newspapers. The warnings went unheeded, and with the development of online readership, salvaging the wreck from sites like Craigslist was abandoned.
Over a decade later, the same is happening with advertising. Newspapers are seeing revenues tumble [...]
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