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Tech Leaders Dismayed by Weaponization of Social Media

November 16, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

View From the Valley Telecom Internet Tech Leaders Dismayed by Weaponization of Social MediaBy Tekla S. Perry Posted 14 Nov 2017 | 15:00 GMT IEEE SPECTRUM The tech industry can’t hide from the information war, particularly when its own creations are being weaponized. That was the consensus of a panel at the Techonomy17 conference in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Science, Trump Tagged: AdSense, Advertising, Autodesk, clickbait, Facebook, GOOGLE, misinformation, Net Neutrality, Propaganda, social networks, Techonomy, Twitter, Verizon

Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: ‘The system is failing’

November 15, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the Guardian – Wednesday 15 November 2017 The inventor of the world wide web remains an optimist but sees a ‘nasty wind’ blowing amid concerns over advertising, net neutrality and fake news Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s optimism about the future of the web is starting to wane in the face of a “nasty storm” of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Science, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: AdSense, Advertising, Ajit Pai, AT&T, Cambridge Analytica, clickbait, Comcast, Facebook, GOOGLE, misinformation, Net Neutrality, Propaganda, social networks, Twitter, Verizon, Vint Cerf

TV Advertising – May 2017

May 15, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

LA Times – Adapting to AD-Skipping Viewers 05/15/02017

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Doc Searls Project VRM

May 13, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

About: http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/about/ https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2015/09/18/debugging-adtech-assumptions/ Wrong. If people have a real relationship with a company, they want it to be with sales or service. That’s it. For example, I have a great relationship with the service department of East Coast Volkswagen in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. I’m on a first-name basis with the guys there, who know … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Thinking about Tagged: AD BLOCKING, Advertising, Apple Computers, Consumers, Cookies, Doc Searls blog, Facebook, Freedom from annoyance, GOOGLE, Internet ADTECH, Internet Vendors, Malware, Privacy, Spyware, Tracking, VRM

Analytics – The Network of Propaganda

February 27, 2017 by sergneri 3 Comments

Today, it is apparent that advertising’s roots in propaganda are resurfacing, we can now add the term analytics under the propaganda heading. These new and highly devious suites of  techniques are becoming key to swaying hundreds of millions of people who use social media and who are unprotected from targeted advertising during their internet sessions. Persuasion is part and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Feminism, Finanace, IT Failures, Politics, Science, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: Advertising, Analytics, Breitbart, Cambridge Analytica, Epidemic models, Farage, GAI, Government Accountability Institute, Macro-Propaganda, Meme Magic, Micro-Propaganda, Persuadables, Propaganda, Propaganda-lytics, Psychological Operations., Psyops, Robert Mercer, SCL Group, Steve Bannon, Twitter

Advertizing

February 18, 2014 by sergneri Leave a Comment

I’ve loaded excerpts from John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing”, Jacques Ellul’s “The Technological Society” and Gary Panter’s very original “Rozztox Manifesto” to stimulate some thinking about advertising and its effects on modern culture. The use of the techniques of propaganda to sell products, ideas, and ways of life, we’ve allowed ourselves to be manipulated by … [Read more…]

Posted in: Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Future of Work, IT Failures, Politics, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: Advertising, consumer society, images, Propaganda, Publicity

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