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Climate Change Debunked? The Great Global Warming Swindle We are told that CO2 and climate change are inextricably linked, and that global warming is a direct consequence of our carbon emissions. But what if these apparent facts were founded on faulty assumptions? That is the premise of documentary film The Great Global Warming Swindle. This ... read more | cat.: mass media | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- May 26

The War On Terror And The Victory Of Spin: Believing Your Own Propaganda Is The True Weapon Of Mass Destruction It is hard to calculate how many times you might have encountered the phrases "war on terror", "Islamo-Fascist", "IED", "9/11", ''ground zero" and "weapons of mass destruction" in the space of your life. Repetition of buzz-words and key phrases are key to any successful propaganda campaign, ... read more | cat.: mass media | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 14

Product Placement And Hypercommercialism Pervade Hollywood Film Industry: But No-One Seems To Notice Product placement presents consumer products, brand names and locations to film and television production teams for inclusion in their projects. The goal is the one of raising brand awareness while selling the idea to movie production houses as a "clever" way to reduce their costs while ... read more | cat.: mass media | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 9

9/11 Twin Towers Collapse: Independent Media Research Brings Back A Different Story - Video Clips As people reject the spin-heavy, information-lite mass media and turn to networked, participatory media emerging through blogs, podcasting and video sharing services like YouTube, truth becomes no longer the property of the few. It is being negotiated by active, engaged participants in the new media landscape ... read more | cat.: mass media | Link | Comment Robin Good and Michael Pick -- October 21

Media Advertising Reality And The Manufactured Beauty Myth - Video ''There is a secret "underlife" poisoning our freedom; infused with notions of beauty, it is a dark vein of self-hatred, physical obsessions, terror of aging, and dread of lost control." Naomi Wolf - The Beauty Myth Photo Credit: Adam Radosavljevic "No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted. Every ... read more | cat.: mass media | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- October 18

Public Media Reinvents Itself: Beyond Broadcasting - Video Here is our own, short (7 mins), pared down version of the excellent Beyond Broadcast video documentary produced by Martin Lucas about the Beyond Broadcasting: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture conference that was held at the Berkman Center this past spring. Dan Gillmor of the Link | cat.: mass media Robin Good -- August 25

US-Iran: Raid On Nuclear Fuel Market In the background of the political joust about Iran, a few countries are reshaping the world. They are taking possession of the global nuclear fuel market. New IAEA regulations should keep newcomers away. The US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, China and Japan will become world's nuclear ... read more | cat.: mass media | Link | Comment Rudo de Ruijter -- May 8

The Power Of Open Participatory Media And Why Mass Media Must Be Abandoned To promote a more participatory society, it is important to promote participatory media and to challenge, replace and eventually abandon mass media. Photo credit: Marilyn Barbone In order to better understand the mass media's inherent lack of democracy, it is useful to imagine a communication system that allows ... read more | cat.: mass media | Link | Comment Brian Martin - University of Wollongong -- March 20

Why Mass Media Are Bad: Weaknesses And Limitations Of Commercial Mainstream Media Mass media are inherently corrupting. A small number of owners and editors exercise great power over what is communicated to large numbers of people. Mass media should be replaced by participatory media organised as networks, such as telephone and computer networks. Photo credit: Ben Goode Strategies to ... read more | cat.: mass media | Link | Comment Brian Martin - University of Wollongong -- March 13

Television As We Know It: The Beginning Of The End "I am in digital-electronics-gadget nirvana. And, I am not afraid to boast. My home sports a fully wireless broadband (WIMAX) Internet environment, where content moves freely among the home server, several multiple high definition (HD) screens, the office PC and the mobile devices that I continually ... read more | cat.: mass media | Link | Comment Dr. Saul J. Berman, Louisa A. Shipnuck and Niall Duffy - IBM -- February 28

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