Kate Carruthers
Living in the future: new media, new consumers, new desires
The old media model of the twentieth century was monolithic and based on a broadcast model. Large scale media players distributed a fixed series of products to a passive audience.
In the twenty-first century we are seeing the beginnings of a new media model. The passive broadcast audience is
Success but on whose terms? What about personal brands and character?
There is so much pressure on people these days to be successful. And I do not think we are encouraged to stop and think what success actually means for each of us and for society in general. Many of us seem to be on a treadmill. Go to school, get
Combining LOLcats with gratuitous sci-fi references FTW - happy Caturday
The future of shopping is social
These are some thoughts that I presented at the AMP Social Media Cafe in Sydney on 11 November 2010, the slides and references follow below.
The future of shopping is social. But that is nothing new – shopping has always been social. The difference is that now we are seeing social
Remembering 11-11
Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?
Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,—
Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones?
Crudely renewed, the Salient holds its own.
Paid are its dim defenders by this pomp;
Paid, with a pile of peace-complacent stone,
If bad is stronger than good what can we do about it?
I've been reading an old article that remains extremely interesting - it is an academic paper dating back to 2001 titled Bad Is Stronger Than Good.
The authors note that:
... Bad impressions and bad stereotypes are quicker to form and more resistant to disconfirmation than good ones. "
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