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Traditional Media and Shared Experiences
Posted by: Michael on: November 10, 2008
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Cavell’s (2007) paper, Dreaming Awake: Mass Media as Ritual examines an aspect of great Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan’s thinking on media and participation and is applicable for looking at the ideas in a recent NPR On The Media segment.
On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone explains how she was at a jazz club with her husband [...]
Marshall McLuhan on the 1976 Presidential Debates
Posted by: Michael on: October 16, 2008
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In tribute to an incarnation of @marshallmcluhan joining Twitter and the conclusion of the American debates and Canadian election, here’s a 1976 McLuhan interview from the Today Show on the Ford-Carter Presidential Debate. His demeanor and strongly opinionated perspective makes this worth watching.
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 [...]
Transparency and Openness In a Crisis
Posted by: Michael on: June 10, 2008
Daniel Muzyka, entrepreneurship professor at UBC’s Sauder School of Business had an article in the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business. I liked this snippet:
If you are part of the crisis, you are involved and need to dedicate immediate and adequate effort to understanding and communicating the issues.
And this has to be done with transparency. [...]
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 [...]
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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