Armed with Ethics: Communicating in an Information Age
This piece draws from a talk delivered at the Canadian Public Relations Society’s annual conference…
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We have a problem, but it isn’t technology.
There is an elephant in the room – and it is persuasion. Until we come to grips with its role in Western society, we cannot tackle issues associated with the shaping of the information environment.
How can we be at war?
“How can we be at war, if we don’t even know what we are talking…
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
This book is amazing. Full stop. This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things by Whitney Phillips…
Snow Crash
At some point earlier this year someone wrote an article related to information warfare that…
Disinformation, Persuasion, and the Information Environment
At the 2018 RightsCon conference in Toronto, we had the opportunity to test an experimental…
Participatory Propaganda and the 2018 Ontario Election
Two “grassroots” political Facebook pages outstripped official party pages in follower engagement during the 2018…
Fantasyland
While the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election weren’t as surprising around here, if they…
Integrating Information Activities into Training
Special Report Integrating Information Activities into Training This report draws from a talk prepared and…
The Influencing Machine
I was recently given a copy of The Influencing Machine for speaking at a NATO…