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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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The Tragedy of Tyler Clementi
By Dino Sossi https://dinosossi.wordpress.com/2018/05/27/the-tragedy-of-tyler-clementi/ Tyler Clementi was, in many ways, a typical teenager. Figure #1 – Tyler Clementi (CBS News, 2010) Raised in small town New Jersey, Tyler dreamed of going to college. He was accepted into Rutger’s University, a … Continue reading
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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
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