Trevor Cook on public relations, social media and politics

Category Archives: history

Welcome to the world of social media war rooms

February 14, 2009 – 2:10 pm

Israel’s recent invasion might be the continuance of an old conflict, but it brought us something new and very depressing – social media propaganda campaigns:
Both sides deployed dangerous new media weapons during this latest round of fighting in Gaza. Armed with Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts, and Lavazza espresso, warriors fearlessly and tirelessly scoured the cyber [...]

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Books among the tropics

February 12, 2009 – 8:15 am

This strange disease afflicts so many of us from the inner-city to the far-flung outposts, like Reg Thomson most of us could hardly imagine a life lived without books:
My earliest memories of my father are permeated by books. They were an integral part of the daily rhythms of his life. Books arrived constantly in boxes [...]

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When did our obssession with consumerism start?

February 1, 2009 – 3:21 pm

Often we think of consumerism as a recent phenomenon, but as this great article points out the origins are much deeper than that:
What we see during the 17th and 18th centuries is the gradual emergence of a new ideology, accepting the pursuit of consumer goods as a valid object of human endeavour and recognising that [...]

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Cuban Revolution turns 50

January 1, 2009 – 12:33 pm

From Wikipedia:
The next day (the 31st), in a scene of great confusion, the city of Santa Clara was captured by the combined forces of Che Guevara, Cienfuegos, Revolutionary Directorate(RD) rebels led by Comandantes Rolando Cubela, Juan (”El Mejicano”) Abrahantes , and William Alexander Morgan. News of these defeats caused Batista to panic. He fled Cuba for the Dominican Republic just [...]

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