Unscaling was not a phrase I was familiar with in a political context, though the basic principle is certainly well known: conventional business paradigms are being disrupted by technology. To unscale refers to the specific act of “dismantling all large-scale, vertically integrated, mass-market institutions”. I have been writing about the disintermediation effect that we are […]
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Media disintermediation and priming in politics
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. Having posted earlier on the way agenda setting and priming have functioned in the US Presidential Primaries, I thought it useful to take a look at how social media affects this process, focusing on the impact of […]
Agenda Setting in Trump’s Triumph – Politics, Policy & Media
A note about one of the many things that struck me while observing the Republican primaries. I thought it an interesting exercise to evaluate this using the agenda setting marketing theory. Agenda-setting theory describes the “ability [of the news media] to influence the salience of topics on the public agenda.” Using this, it is apparent […]
Authenticity and Framing
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. This post about the repackaging of Hilary Clinton (in a manner similar to that of the sitcom character Leslie Knope) struck a cord with me; particularly in the context of authenticity and framing. She was preening and […]
Post-truth politics and facts
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. With media gatekeeping being the topic of my previous post, this article brought up some points that are worth retreading. In many ways, it is a lament for the death of gatekeeping and a statement against what has […]
Media gatekeeping & campaigning
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. please forgive any formatting issues. Having made frequent references to media disintermediation, I thought it would be instructive to take a look at media gatekeeping. Particularly in light of the previous post on Brexit and the idea that electorates were “tired […]
