Saturday, 3 May 2008

When Habits Change Faster Than Ad Models

I've finally got around to figuring out that there's no real point in trying to define new media, but rather accept it as media in a constant state of flux and change. Ad Age also reflects that the problem we face is that habits are changing faster than our advertising models can, and unless we figure out how to make those habits make money, social media could face serious challenges to its historically rapid growth. More 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.