A few observations to date: You’re a flip-flopper! No, you are!! the Lib Dems and Tories are using very similar graphics to draw attention to flip-flops by each other’s party leader. While this style of an image can be a useful tool, it wouldn’t surprise me to see the onset of a degree of audience … Continue reading UK General Election – analysis of content #GE2017
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Fake News & Imagined Realities
Having been away for a week, a fortuitous selection of holiday reading lead me to some insights on the fake news phenomenon and its impact on the recent US election. Let me list these out, before exploring them in more detail: A unique quality of humans is our ability to create imagined realities. Many things … Continue reading Fake News & Imagined Realities
Gary Hart and why Trump was inevitable
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. We’re all going to have to seriously question the system for selecting our national leaders, for it reduces the press of this nation to hunters and Presidential candidates to being hunted. In an episode of the … Continue reading Gary Hart and why Trump was inevitable
Trump vs. everyone
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. A great example of how social media has changed politics is taking place in America with the battle over how Obama’s healthcare policies are to be changed under the new administration. President-elect Donald Trump is setting the … Continue reading Trump vs. everyone
Trump Lessons Part 3: Voters & Prospect Theory
NB: This post was first published in another blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. This concept from Behavioral Economics is important in understanding why Trump won. Simply put, prospect theory posits that individuals are risk averse when facing favourable prospects but are more accepting of risks when faced with losses. In the case … Continue reading Trump Lessons Part 3: Voters & Prospect Theory
Trump Lessons Part 2: Ideology
NB: This post was first published in another blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally. This was a great line from an article in The Atlantic and Trump’s billionaire backer Peter Thiel said much the … Continue reading Trump Lessons Part 2: Ideology
Trump Lessons Part 1: picking your battles
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. The problem from a political campaigning perspective with the type of handwringing articles we’ve seen about Trump’s sexism and racism is that they focus on the wrong thing. This happens in Sri Lankan politics too. In … Continue reading Trump Lessons Part 1: picking your battles
Strict fathers, Trump and Appachchi
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. please forgive any formatting issues. These were very intriguing articles quoting George Lakoff (one of the great thoughts leaders on political communication) about the influence on voters of moral frameworks and perceptions of parenting. He describes the two models as “strict … Continue reading Strict fathers, Trump and Appachchi
Roundup on politics, media and campaiging
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. please forgive any formatting issues. There have been a few articles that caught my eye lately, but these two stood out in the context of this blog. The always outstanding Matt Taibbi had an excellent piece on the current status of … Continue reading Roundup on politics, media and campaiging
Experts, framing & communication
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. “Not only were we facing the British establishment in the government, we also, in some ways, took on the world establishment because all these heads of government [including Obama] were coming out to say that Britain … Continue reading Experts, framing & communication
