Publicacy 101: Edward Bernays + Propaganda = Industrialization of Institutional Knowledge Acquisition in the Twentieth Century

A short course on publicacy and the relationship of this concept to literacy and also related fields such as public relations, business and general communications, etc.

Sixth Meditation on Social Media: Fair Use & Advertising

I’d like to bring this series full circle, right back to the beginning — I didn’t start the Fair, the Real Truth is a Trade Secret. Apparently, according to Desmond Morris (who passed away just a short while ago, RIP), humans have been using the technology of the handshake for many centuries or even millennia.… Continue reading Sixth Meditation on Social Media: Fair Use & Advertising

Community Information versus Milieu Information

Since I have been writing about information, language, communities and milieus for quite some time, and since other people have also recently been increasingly commenting more on a wide variety of related issues, I’ve decided I should focus my attention on an insight that just happened to me in an “AHA!” sort of way. I… Continue reading Community Information versus Milieu Information

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