communications industry structure, including mass media, advertising, and telephone companies
The local paper directory business is shrinking rapidly. Consider Yell Group, which publishes Yellowbook and describes itself as “a leading international directories business operating in the classified advertising market through print, online and phone-based media in the United Kingdom, United States, Spain and Latin America.” The Yell Group’s presentation of financial results for the first … Continue reading shrinking paper directory advertising
The rise of interactive media has directed attention to differences in communicative style. “News is a conversation” and “conversational marketing” have become rallying slogans for new-media news reporting and advertising initiatives. Conversation uses words and grammatical constructs in characteristically different ways and frequencies than does traditional news reporting and public relations releases. Experts in corpus … Continue reading traditional news: an academic style
Both females and males talk longer on the telephone when they call females. That female preference accounts for females’ greater telephone talking time. … Read the post both sexes talk longer on the telephone with women
While having some dental work done last week, I had a TV screen stuck in front of me. It was showing Nostradamus: 2012, from Armageddon Week on the History Channel. In this intellectual investigative report, a solemn, authoritative male voice objectively narrates what some scholars believe and what other scholars believe. Particular scholars appear as … Continue reading learning from history: Armageddon Week on the History Channel
To prepare for lectures he gave about 880 years ago, Hugh of Saint Victor painted an extraordinarily intricate, multi-color teaching aid on the wall of the Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris. The painting was probably about 4 meters tall and 4.5 meters wide. It was “the most complex single work of figural art from … Continue reading Hugh of Saint Victor: socio-economics of copying