By Dr Rosalind Jones, Lecturer in Marketing Department of Marketing, University of Birmingham Facebook needs to work on creating an improved alliance with outsourced companies or bring the work in-house, ensuring compliance for a better and safer world. A recent Channel 4 Dispatches program – Inside Facebook: Secrets of the Social Network – saw an undercover … Continue reading “Is it still safe to use Facebook?”
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World No Tobacco Day and why it still matters
By Dr Caroline Moraes, Senior Lecturer in Marketing Department of Marketing, University of Birmingham I hope to see a future where we have all stopped smoking, making World No Tobacco Day and threat-based social marketing become redundant. The need to curb tobacco consumption due to its detrimental health effects is still a topical issue, despite the many … Continue reading “World No Tobacco Day and why it still matters”
Less is better: guarding your privacy in a world of micro-targeting
By Dr Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, Reader in Economics Department of Economics, University of Birmingham Given the potential to legally harvest data to use for micro-targeting, as consumers we need to understand how we are vulnerable to being manipulated. The controversy over the way Cambridge Analytica has used data harvested from Facebook has raised concerns around data … Continue reading “Less is better: guarding your privacy in a world of micro-targeting”
An alternative take on the benefits of increasingly targeted user engagement
By Dr David Houghton, Lecturer in Marketing at Birmingham Business School A little while back I posted a blog on what I believe is the more important issue around selfie posting: that we need to look beyond the selfie and to the self. I wanted to write a bit more on the concern that we might … Continue reading “An alternative take on the benefits of increasingly targeted user engagement”
It’s the self not the selfie: Are we heading down a wormhole?
By Dr David Houghton, Lecturer in Marketing at Birmingham Business School A few weeks back I was approached to write this blog piece on the topic of selfie culture, shortly after having appeared on BBC Breakfast discussing a similar topic. My first thoughts were, “what’s interesting about selfies?” I mean, we know from prior research, … Continue reading “It’s the self not the selfie: Are we heading down a wormhole?”