Jamie Hanton

On my way into the office a couple of days ago I happened upon an increasingly common sight. Folks in pajamas in the city. It’s a look that says many many things. “I’m above fashion” “I’m lazier than thou” “I’m like, so laid back”. And keep in mind we were well into the afternoon.
I remember [...]

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Doing some course reading (Grunig & Grunig, 1992) and found that there is actually an historical basis for the depiction of PR and Comms practitioners as emergents of the dark side.
Edward L. Bernays, pioneering PR man and nephew of Sigmund Freud believed “that humans were manipulable, as evidenced by the success of Nazi propagandists [...]

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Sigh. I’m having conniptions about flux. Well, not really but I’d like to be. It doesn’t throw me into a spinning torrent of rage or anger. In reality, I’d like flux to be a bit more like conniption really. Nuanced, complex, multi-syllabic. Perhaps they could change definitions for the day. Just to see how it [...]

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“Our plan was to make things easier for you but it didn’t quite go to plan. So, we have made some changes.”
Thus goes the beginning of Vodafone’s letter of apology in regard to their online billing scheme. Really, the plan fell flat because Vodafone weren’t actually trying to make things easier for the customer, nor [...]

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