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Environmental Psychology
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wiretapping – at&t’s new marketing strategy

By gtdonovan | Published: 08.11.2008
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while now, but what with article deadlines, ecycolpedia entries, the NUDA Summer School, and Euro-SSIG, I’m just now getting around to it. Back in June, at&t briefly flirted with the idea of using the scandal surrounding their illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens’ domestic and international communications [...]
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astroturfing in action

By gtdonovan | Published: 01.29.2008
Here is a clear case of astroturfing… I noticed the following ad on HuffingtonPost yesterday (01.28.08) promoting “draftbloomberg.com.” Draftbloomberg.com (formerly Unity08.com) has been setup to encourage people to petition Michael Bloomberg to run for president as an Independent. The ad states 5,237 signatures… Meanwhile the web site only lists 3,719 signatures. Bloomberg’s broadcasting of support appears [...]
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young people: victims, criminals… red herring

By gtdonovan | Published: 07.30.2007
While reading Walter Lippmann’s “A Preface to Politics” my attention was mainly drawn to his discussion of the red herring. The red herring — a metaphor used to describe the obfuscation of, or distraction from, a particular object(ive) — is portrayed by Lippmann (1913, p261) as both “pest” and “benefit,” as a political maneuver which [...]
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