We discuss the attention economy and the Society of the Spectacle with Katt Williams/Club Shay Shay Extended Cut and the historical case studies of crisis communication in the new media environment with the Alaska Airlines Ad, as well as the relevance – and irrelevance – of laughter in satire in Weekend Update. Readings include 60 years of philosophy, 30 years public relations case studies, and an experimental study by psychologists Rhodes and Ellithorpe.
Listen on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-9-jacob-elordi-s49e9/id1712886779
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Readings
Debord, G. (1967). The society of the spectacle. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
Deighton, J., & Kornfeld, L. (2010). United breaks guitars. HBS Case, (510-057). https://blog0628.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/hbs_united-breaks-guitars-.pdf
New York Times (6 Feb 1993). COMPANY NEWS; Jack in the Box’s Worst Nightmare. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/06/business/company-news-jack-in-the-box-s-worst-nightmare.html
Rhodes, N., & Ellithorpe, M. E. (2016). Laughing at risk: Sitcom laugh tracks communicate norms for behavior. Media Psychology, 19(3), 359-380. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2015.1090908
Shoemaker, D. (2024). Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo213636907.html
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