21 APR 2014 by ideonexus
Consumers of Alternative News are More Likely to Fall for...
Most of the online activism Facebook pages contain claims that mainstream media is manipulated by higher entities (and thus the information is be not neutral or reliable). Such an antagonism makes any kind of persuasion process, even if based on more solid information, very dicult. As a response to partisan debates, the emergent groups of trolls began to provide parodistic imitations of a wide range of online partisan topics. Despite the evident parodistic (and sometimes paradoxical) contents...
1 Memes that are satirical or paradoxical.
28 OCT 2013 by ideonexus
Presenting Evidence is a Moral Act
Making an evidence presentation is a moral act as well as an intellectual activity. To maintain standards of quality, relevance, and integrity for evidence, consumers of presentations should insist that presenters be held intellectually and ethically responsible for what they show and tell. Thus consuming a presentation is also an intellectual and a moral activity.
1 Our responsibility as the audience is to hold the presenter accountable.
01 AUG 2013 by ideonexus
Legal Perspective of "Semiotic Democracy"
"Cultural populists," . . . generally view popular culture as contested terrain in which individuals and groups (racial, ethnic, gender, class, etc.) struggle, albeit on unequal terms, to make and establish their own meanings and identities. As the populists see things, the consumers of cultural commodities (movies, songs, fashions, television programs, etc.) neither uniformly receive nor uncritically accept the "preferred meanings" that are generated and circulated by the culture industry. T... 1 
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notesAlso a way of saying "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," in that entertainers have no control over how the viewer reinterprets their work.
14 JUN 2013 by ideonexus
Prediction Errors for the Information Age
Perhaps the best way to describe the flawed vision of fin de siecle futurists is to say that, with few exceptions, they expected the coming of an ''immaculate'' economy -- one in which people would be largely emancipated from any grubby involvement with the physical world. The future, everyone insisted, would bring an ''information economy'' that would mainly produce intangibles. The good jobs would go to ''symbolic analysts,'' who would push icons around on computer screens; knowledge, rathe...Economists misunderstood the value of information and material goods in the information revolutions.
03 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
The Consumer is Not King
Marketers glibly say that the consumer is king, but in practice he's not. In the real world, experienced marketing and consumer-affairs hands will tell you, consumers aren't very good at protecting their own interests. They're too busy consuming, or working, or just living regular lives. The groups that claim to protect their interests often end up with their own agendas, which may have more to do with Washington power battles and fund-raising than with genuine consumer interests.Folksonomies: capitalism
Folksonomies: capitalism
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notesThis is a common-wisdom that is not true in practice, consumers are too busy too look out for their own interests.
03 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
How People are Paid for Their Attention
The result of the new economics is that people are often paid for their attention, implicitly or explicitly. They get to see television free in return for watching commercials. Their magazines and newspapers are subsidized or supplied free by advertisers. Nowadays bus shelters, baseball stadiums, and even those little refresher towelettes on airlines such as Lufthansa are supported by advertisers eager for your attention.
You are also rewarded with content according to the "quality" of attent... 1 notes
notesConsumers are rewarded by advertisers and companies for the attention and quality of attention they pay to products.
