dinsdag 15 februari 2011

The ease of online media manipulation




Do you want to influence media and society? Read this log carefully.

First Step:
Choose a subject that's really hot at the moment. Especially online websites are searching the entire day for news on Twitter and Blogs. In fact they are too lazy to set up their own story, so they simple copy-paste our findings. Newsmedia have called this 'crowdsourcing', I am calling this saving money and reducing sweat.

//My case: Feyenoord football player Luigi Bruins formed the subject of my topic. Traditionally January is a transfer month and that's why online reporters are dedicated for transfer rumors. They do not like to disappoint their visitors, so all the rumors are welcome.
 


dinsdag 8 februari 2011

Social Media aka Stasi 2.0

The people of Egypts have formed the news since two weaks. Because of the Facebook flashmob different sorts of media have suggested that social can liberate the world from dictatorships. Let me tell you another story, based on Evgeny Morozov's book - The Net Delusion.


maandag 7 februari 2011

Me Myself the hypocrite

Communication Parrots
Setting up a weblog about business communication is the easiest thing to do for me. As a communication graduate it is not hard to find relevant articles and weblogs about this subject. Four years Bachelor nearly convinced me about the value of social media and the 'opportunities' this medium has to offer us.

The University told me to set up a blog and a twitter to publish about communication. Keeping in my mind that we all describing our own (feature)business i am expecting numerous of positive posts and tweets about communication and social mediablabla. One of the first lessons in marketing is: Be Remarkable. That's the main reason this weblog is set up in a "pickle-wise" way.

I hope to serve and enjoy you the next couple of months with anti-digital communication posts. Next topic will be about Evgeny Morozov (cyber-utopism).