When I was at university, I studied some psychology. I vividly remember learning about deindividualisation; losing the sense of individual responsibility for your actions (sometimes through a false sense of anonymity) leading to anti-normative behaviour. One of the lesser-known examples that the lecturer gave, was an experiment in 1973, where six males and six females [...]
Tag Archives: blogs
When State servants use social media
December 16, 2008 – 1:45 pm
Over the last 3 years we have seen a steady increase in the use of social media by State servants:
sanctioned government agency blogs (like this one),
State servants blogging about their organisations in their spare time,
State servants responding to blog posts,
State servants writing guest posts on blogs,
sanctioned government agency wikis,
State servants editing articles relating to their [...]
Preaching to the converted: Reading blogs at work
October 6, 2008 – 11:02 am
While reading blogs at work last week, ironically, I read this article about reading blogs at work.
Now as you can guess, I’m converted: I think irrelevant of the medium, you should be keeping up with developments in your respective field. I would say that easily more than half of my research is done on regularly [...]
Reputation management: Conducting a social media audit
July 1, 2008 – 4:26 pm
I recently spoke at Comms 08 but had to skip the final quarter of my presentation due to time constraints. The silver lining of that cloud is that what I was going to cover then, I will transcribe for everyone now.
Conducting a social media audit
We have entered an age of social media — the democratisation of [...]
