Accountability and the modern state
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Philosophy, Quotes, Society | 2 Comments »On Monday this week I sat down with Euan Semple to discuss a project that I have in mind. It centered around the concept of Engagement as a bigger idea beyond marketing communications. How could we evolve to be more ...
What Age are we in?
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Education, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Media, Networks, Philosophy, Quotes | 2 Comments »I was in Amsterdam yesterday working with the staff from Freedom Lab in Amsterdam - probing, exploring, discussing some of the major themes that preoccupy me. And one of the questions that came up yesterday was - What Age ...
Henry Jenkins on Obama and the “We” Generation
Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Participation, Philosophy, Quotes, Social Networks, Society, Trends | No Comments »The community generation is how we describe what are otherwise known as Digital Natives Henry Jenkins has added his thoughts on Barak Obama and the transformation of American politics, he states Commentators have noted his tendency to use ...
Henry Jenkins on Obama and the “We” Generation
Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Participation, Philosophy, Quotes, Social Networks, Society, Trends | No Comments »The community generation is how we describe what are otherwise known as Digital Natives Henry Jenkins has added his thoughts on Barak Obama and the transformation of American politics, he states Commentators have noted his tendency to use ...
Henry Jenkins on Obama and the “We” Generation
Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Participation, Philosophy, Quotes, Social Networks, Society, Trends | No Comments »The community generation is how we describe what are otherwise known as Digital Natives Henry Jenkins has added his thoughts on Barak Obama and the transformation of American politics, he states Commentators have noted his tendency to use ...
Who does the UK government work for?
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Economics, Government & Politics, Health, Retail, Society, Trends | 1 Comment »Now tell if I am wrong, but I thought that elected Governments are constituently bound to serve the needs to the people that elected them - they, the elected Government are servants of the people. A community in this sense ...
1968 and all that
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Posted in Culture, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Television, Trends | 3 Comments »In my speeches that I give, I often refer to how societies values change as the economy of that society develops. 1968 was a big year - the Paris Riots, Berlin, Prague, Chicago, Rome, Mexico City and even London. I ...
The man who would be President
Monday, January 14th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Strategy | No Comments »An in depth look at Barack Obama Barack famously said Your issues of unemployment and crime in the community are the same issues the Baptists are having and the African Americans are having. Let's put all the other ...
Politics and satire - to engage a nation
Monday, January 14th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Engagement Marketing, Government & Politics, Media, Television | 2 Comments »I remember in the 80's a great deal of comedy being created out of political satire, Spitting Image perhaps its finest example. Today - political satire seems to be waning. However, in the US and because of the writers ...
New Kids on the Blog - BBC Radio 4 explores the evolution of media
Sunday, January 13th, 2008 Posted in Citizen journalism, Convergence, Distribution, Generation C, Government & Politics, Media, Social Networks, Society, Television, Web/Tech, Weblogs | 2 Comments »http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/4tbwg/ Matt Frei looks at how the digital revolution is changing the face of American media. American journalism is changing faster than ever before and the mass audiences of the nightly network news are in decline. With the internet explosion, Americans now ...
