6807: Marketing And Mind Games.

Reporting and studying in a MultiCultClassics Monologue…

• The Los Angeles Times reported on the likely residual effects to come from General Motors’ reinvention, focusing on the collateral damage to advertising and marketing. Reduced budgets will rock everything from advertising agencies to media outlets to sponsorships. Which means multicultural agencies will really get screwed. And there will surely be a dramatic increase in robot suicides.

• Studies from California universities indicate online social networks could result in psychological—and potentially moral—harm to avid fans and followers. One study speculated that the quick, instant transfer of information on social media sites does not provide people with enough time to develop a moral response. “If things are happening too fast, you may not ever fully experience emotions about other people’s psychological states and that would have implications for your morality,” said a researcher. This could explain why social media is so attractive to advertising executives, who have traditionally displayed a complete lack of morality.