Thursday 20 March 2008

Gordon Brown's "national register of risks"

A National Security Strategy to deal with emergencies such as terrorism, extreme weather, pandemic diseases and unstable energy supplies has been announced by the prime minister. Also high on the list of potential threats were nuclear weapons and cyber attacks. More from the BBC here, op ed styled comments here and audience comments here.

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I am director of the Media and Persuasive Communication (MPC) network at Bangor University where I also lecture on political-economy of the media. I am currently working on a book provisionally titled Deconstructing Privacy for Peter Lang and leading two empirical projects in connection with privacy perception and the use of new media for smoking cessation. I am author of Creativity and Advertising: Affect, Events and Process (Routledge, 2013); The Mood of Information: A Critique of Behavioural Advertising (Continuum, 2011); and Digital Advertising (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009). Please contact me at mcstay@bangor.ac.uk if you are interested in Ph.D supervision or consultancy services.