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Made You Look! Advertising and the New Attention Economy
By Dino Sossi https://dinosossi.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/hey-you-look-over-here-advertising-and-the-dawn-of-the-attention-economy/ Figure #1 – Taste the difference? (Bond, 2020) Why do we have advertising? Paying for content via advertisements is a relatively recent phenomenon. In his important and timely book The Attention Merchants (20106), author Tim Wu … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, advertising, attention economy, behavior, business, commercials, communications, corporate communication, corporate social responsibility, cyber policy, data, digital, ecommerce, feature, free speech, information, interactive, internet, iPhone, Jaron Lanier, Jonathan Haidt, Madison Avenue, news, Nir Eyal, online shopping, op-ed, pop culture, privacy, Silicon Valley, smartphone, social media, social media campaign, technology, television, texting, Tim Wu, Twitter, video, Walter Lippmann, web apps, writing
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Sharp Tweets-Would Trump Be President Without Twitter?
By Dino Sossi (updated November 4, 2020) https://dinosossi.wordpress.com/2020/02/01/negative-repercussions-would-trump-be-president-without-twitter/ Figure #1 – “Would ya just watch the hair?” (image–University of South Australia, 2019; quote–Saturday Night Fever) You may have disliked the final results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election or even … Continue reading
Posted in #CrookedHillaryClinton, behavior, business, censorship, communications, corporate communication, dialogic space, digital, fake news, free speech, grammar, Hillary Clinton, information, internet, Joe Biden, law, news, op-ed, Politics, pop culture, privacy, rhetoric, smartphone, social media, social media campaign, technology, text, texting, Twitter, typography, U.S. Presidential Election 2016, U.S. Presidential Election 2020
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Translating Media Messages–Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding
By Dino Sossi (updated January 2019) Translating Media Messages–Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding Figure #1 – Stand by to decode this television messages (Seek PNG, n.d.) We watch television in overwhelming numbers. The Trump era has only increased that. A hot medium … Continue reading
Posted in communications, cool medium, dominant-hegemonic position, education, encoding/decoding, fake news, free speech, hot medium, media, negotiated code, negotiated position, news, non-verbal symbols, oppositional code position, Politics, Stuart Hall, symbols, technology, television, theories of participation, Uncategorized, verbal symbols, video
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You Can Always Get What You Want–Aristotle’s Rhetoric
By Dino Sossi https://dinosossi.wordpress.com/2021/01/14/get-what-you-wantaristotles-rhetoric/ Figure #1 – Could I sell you a soda? (Nordquist, 2017) How do we get what we want? During the current political moment, it feels like might makes right. Those who are the strongest and have … Continue reading
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Protected: Citizen Journalism’s Dark Side-The Sunil Tripathi Tragedy
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Posted in #BostonStrong, behavior, Boston Marathon, crime, digital, ethics, free speech, information, internet, law, news, op-ed, Politics, privacy, Reddit, social media, Sunil Tripathi, surveillance
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