Category: Ethics
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How to get the media on board to end AVE
One of the hurdles along the road of seeing an end to the “advertising value equivalence” (AVE) measurement metric that’s decried by many in the PR and measurement communities is persuading organisations to stop using it. The issue with AVE…
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The end of AVE in PR?
If there’s one phrase guaranteed to generate debate in the PR business, it’s ‘advertising value equivalence,’ AVE for short. In simple terms, AVE looks at the volume of space an editorial article takes in a print publication, or the amount…
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Addressing privacy and fake news on the web: Tim Berners-Lee’s call to action
The recent rise and spread of so-called fake news is a topic that’s generating a great deal of opinion on what to do about it. I’ve weighed in, too, in a recent episode of the Small Data Forum podcast. Now,…
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Genevieve Bell: ‘Humanity’s greatest fear is about being irrelevant’
The anthropologist explains why being scared about AI has more to do with our fear of each other than killer robots
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Give your chatbot some real personality
Chatbots are all the rage at the moment. These clever computer programs (algorithms, to be more precise) are popping up everywhere online to help you with mundane tasks from getting a weather forecast or currency exchange rate to travel planning…