Privacy, the media and the internet
[...] increasingly, our efforts at exposure are just as manicured: as our media savvy is informed by the trials of those who really live their lives in the spotlight, we become our own public relations entourage, checking the messages that enter the world about us against a brand or self-image we wi...
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| Published in: | New statesman (1996) 2008-06, Vol.137 (4899), p.52 |
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| Format: | Magazinearticle |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | [...] increasingly, our efforts at exposure are just as manicured: as our media savvy is informed by the trials of those who really live their lives in the spotlight, we become our own public relations entourage, checking the messages that enter the world about us against a brand or self-image we wish to promote. In4o years' time, when you can view the Bebo profiles of our Prime Minister, the leader of the opposition - even the head of state - as they were aged 18, shame, vilification and exclusion, what Williams calls "those age -old tools of sub-legislative censure", will look like blunt instruments indeed. |
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| ISSN: | 1364-7431 1758-924X |