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Category: Society

  • Defining contemporary society

    Best words I’ve seen in a very long time that paint a compelling picture of what anyone with an opinion has the potential to do today: “We have gone from a world split between gatekeepers and media “consumers” to a…

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  • Hollywood had Chris Dodd and a press release, Silicon Valley had Facebook

    A nice sound bite in a frothy report by US entertainment industry columnist and blogger +Sharon Waxman about yesterday’s online protests against SOPA and PIPA. If you remember the core of this issue, it’s seen by many as Hollywood and…

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  • The SOPA blackout

    From 5am GMT today, January 18, one of the top-ten most visited websites on the internet is unavailable for 24 hours – if you visit English-language Wikipedia, you’ll just get a page with a text concisely explaining why you can’t…

  • Three candidates for new PR definition

    The PRSA-led global initiative to find a new definition for public relations has moved into an interesting phase as it extends the time for deciding on what will be the one. Rather than the PRSA and its global partners choose…

  • TFL’s stop-start approach to combating vehicle pollution

    As someone who drives into and out of central London quite frequently, I’m as conscious as any road user of the huge traffic congestion that’s a feature of a typical journey, along with consequential environment issues like exhaust emissions and…