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Putin’s Potential for a Digital Personality Cult

The internet has changed many things including the concept and practice of “cult of personality.”…

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Notes from the Internet Apocalypse

What La Generalista has to say: Wonderful satire of our virtual world and the perils…

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Naiveté & The Net

Facebook continued to fuel the usual public outrage with news of a 2012 study on the emotions…

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Gone From Google… But Not Forgotten

Google has begun the process of removing links to “outdated or irrelevant” content in European search…

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Alicia Wanless (A.K.A. La Generalista) studies influence and propaganda in a digital age, applying her research to strategic communications campaigns. Learn more about her work here or connect with Alicia via social channels linked here below:
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The Audience is the Amplifier

Propaganda is changing in a Digital Age. What once was a top-down effort to the…

How Do You Define a Problem Like Influence?

Myriad actors attempt to shape the information environment for specific aims. The capabilities enabled through…

The Changing Nature of Propaganda

Information has always been used in conflict to sway opponents and mobilise supporters. In recent…

Armed with Ethics: Communicating in an Information Age

This piece draws from a talk delivered at the Canadian Public Relations Society’s annual conference…

Diplomacy in a Digital Age

On 15 February 2019, the Young Transatlantic Initiative and the General Delegation of the Government…

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.