Media Mindfulness

Lookout pundits, in case you haven’t seen this yet, The Onion lambasts you on its new network. Ouch! (And yeah!)
In The Know: Our Troops In Iraq

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Is this advocacy or ad-vocacy? The postironic aspect is that somehow this scene (and the others linked to in the Washington Post article below) assumes that despite global warming, normal activities like leisure and consumerism will go uninhibited. Hmmm.
High-Water Marketing - washingtonpost.com:
In print ads promoting its spring/summer collection, the Italian-based clothing company depicts landscapes that [...]

Who could have imagined five years ago that nicotine patches would compete with commercial tobacco companies for attention and ad dollars. Moreover, in a strange twist of fate, the product is shopped as a beauty aid. But there you have it. This ad is also in line with the trend to use deconstruction techniques as [...]

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As the New York Times recently reported, companies are creating their own films, TV networks and “webasodes” under the rubric of “branded content.” The fact that I am writing about it is a tribute to the “marketability” of the concept. People ignore ads, so this is part of the commercial backlash to wire your eyes [...]

Here’s the crappy thing about our culture today: I can’t tell anymore if I’m a total sucker. Is this another Yes Men prank?

The campaign is called, “nuke the moon.” Strange thing is, there is some rationality to this irrationality. The argument is that if the US as a superpower acts totally crazy, then no [...]

“…Our culture has become so saturated with ironic doubt that it’s beginning to doubt its own mode of doubting. If everything is false, then by the same token anything can be taken as true, or at least as true enough. Truths are no longer absolute; they’re shifting, temporary, whatever serves the purpose of the moment. [...]

OK, the phenomena of Tila Tequila caught my eye (literally), giving me pause about the nexus of celebrity culture and social networks. Her bio reads like a manifesto of post-irony, the sad, commodified afterlife of punk’s impact on capitalism.

As you can see in the comments below from her MySpace page, she bemoans the shallowness of [...]