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PODCAST: Mapping and Decoding Information Warfare
WHETHER AT HOME in the Capitol or abroad in the Kremlin, the plays we run are the strategies that shift positions and points of view. Please listen in to this important podcast, hosted by the Information Professionals Association, to learn how disinformation, misinformation and what I call spinformation can be mapped and decoded for collaborative and […]
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EXCERPT FROM BEYOND POST-COMMUNICATION: Macnamara's New Book Challenges and Provokes
FEW SCHOLARS see their field as clearly as Jim Macnamara, the prolific professor of communication and public relations, and fewer still will give balance and voice to what is contrary. I was glad then to be interviewed by Jim for his new book, Beyond Post-Communication: Challenging Disinformation, Deception, and Manipulation, and thankful for his even-handed treatment of […]
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Trump's Lesson for Communicators: Be Fast
For all the plays that President Donald Trump runs it might be speed more than strategy that gives the president his unique political edge. Even when he’s been beaten. In the wake of a midterm thumping, Trump delivered another clinic in perception management and information warfare. By 8 a.m., he tweeted to House Democrats that […]