When the Medium is The Message Promoting Ethical Action Through Democratic Dialogue

When the Medium Is the Message

Dialogue is destiny: managing the message in humanitarian action.

During humanitarian response efforts, the mass media serves as the primary informational intermediary informing donors, policy makers, and the non-affected public. A lack of professional standards within the current culture of journalism, the politics of media ownership, and media manipulation by governments has distorted reporting on humanitarian crises, with possible detrimental effects on re...

"The Medium" Is the Message

It is our position (following Plaice and Kropf [4]) that mathematics and software engineering do not provide a very good basis for understanding communities. These formalisms are necessarily influenced by a mechanical, atomistic outlook which sees collections as arbitrary assemblages of self-sufficient individuals communicating point to point in a vacuum. I suggest instead that ideas of Marshal...

Antinuclear antibodies: the medium is the message.

Food packaging: the medium is the message.

In considering the marketing of food products to children, the role of packaging warrants closer attention. The use of packaging as a marketing vehicle is evidently increasing. Marketing analysts suggest two reasons for this. First, many food choices are made at the point of sale, so ‘the package becomes a critical factor in [the] consumer decision-making process, because it communicates to con...