Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
03 September 2008 repeat 07 Sep
CORPORATE PR Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor David Miller, author of a new book entitled Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy and Mark Borkowski, PR Practitioner, to discuss the idea that ‘Corporate Spin’ has launched a full scale assault on modern democracy to the point that lies, fakes and ‘dark arts’ are behind a bewildering array of untruths that completely mislead the media and the public.
HIGHRISE LIVING Could our sense that so many modern cities look alike be the result of looking at them only from the outside – of considering exteriors rather than interiors? Dr Stephen Cairns picks up on some questions raised in last week’s programme about the city and talks about the findings of new research into highrise residential buildings currently being carried out at the University of Edinburgh.
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Professor David Miller Professor of Sociology in the Department of Geography and Sociology at the University of Strathclyde
Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy by William Dinan (Author, Editor), David Miller (Editor) Publisher: Pluto Press ISBN-10: 0745324444 ISBN-13: 978-0745324449
Mark Borkowski PR Practitioner and author of The Fame Formula
The Fame Formula: How Hollywood’s fixers, fakers and star makers created the Celebrity Industry Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd ISBN-10: 0283070390 ISBN-13: 978-0283070396
Dr Stephen Cairns Head of Architecture and a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory at the University of Edinburgh
Dr Stephen Cairns is co-lead Investigator of the Highrise Project with Jane Jacobs
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