Forget About Social Media, Time To Embrace Social Production

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 By Laurence Parkes

Recent technological advances such as the Internet drive changes in production, distribution and marketing that go far deeper than using social media to let people talk to the stars of ad campaigns. As people congregate around more…

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A Change In Government

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 By Fiona Mason

The impact of a change of government in 2010 shouldn’t be underestimated.

If the Conservatives win the General Election, the country will see significant shifts not only in terms of how public services will be delivered, but also how Government interacts with its citizens, and it won’t just…

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Searching For The Perfect Playlist

Friday, January 22nd, 2010 By Jo Dickson

The last few years have seen a remarkable pace of change in the way we listen to music.  Each of us has moved on from being fed tunes by the radio and buying the odd favourite, to compiling our own playlists, seeking recommendations and sharing them with others. We’ve willingly followed, but it…

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Change We Can Believe In?

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 By Clare Shaw

In the build up to any election, we hear calls for change.  At the start of the New Year, David Cameron said that 2010 should be a ‘Year for Change’.  However, one of the most iconic statements for change in recent times has to be Barack Obama’s ‘Change We Can Believe In’ – a premise that…

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Who Is Winning The Race For Creativity?

Monday, January 18th, 2010 By Jonathan Akwue

I was recently sent the link to this video on YouTube.  If you have a few minutes to spare, I’d recommend that you watch it – although you might want to turn the volume down if you’re at work, as the soundtrack by

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Changing To Channel 4 Will Be Good For The Paralympics, Consumers And London 2012 Sponsors

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 By Tim Crow

Channel 4’s successful bid against the BBC to win the UK broadcast rights to the London 2012 Paralympics defied predictions – including, notably, those of former

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Why Alan Smith Must Hate Niklas Bendtner

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 By Matt Edwards

Alan Smith  must hate Nicholas Bendtner. And Pixie…

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Change – Google Demonstrate That It’s Not As Easy As It Looks

Friday, January 8th, 2010 By Jonathan Peachey

This week saw the launch of the Nexus One, Google’s first foray into making mobile handsets. That a software company like Google should contemplate hardware at all is remarkable but it shows, depending on your views about the search giant,…

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Don’t Come For The Sandwiches – Food As Art And Art As Food

Thursday, January 7th, 2010 By Josh Greenberg

I’ve long been interested in food.  Not just the eating and the making, but everything that comes before, and in-between.

Whilst studying for my MA a couple of years ago, I was shocked to discover food wasn’t considered a ‘creative art’.  The reasons for this are complicated, as is the…

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The Post-consumption Consumer

Monday, January 4th, 2010 By Alison Wright

I recently saw a press ad in the government’s ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ campaign encouraging people to buy less stuff. Somewhat unusual for an ad, not to mention demonstrating a pretty fundamental contradiction between environmental and economic policy!

In modern consumer society, marketers…

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