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Why social media is the new virtual classroom for adult learners.

Today there is so much information available and ‘experts’ sharing their insights, online learning has never been so easy to access. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF) study, 54% of working employees are being pressured into up-skilling or re-skilling in their current position in order to maintain relevance (Hiremath et al. 2021). The question …

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Digital Surveillance and the price of Consumer Convenience

After researching the area of Digital Surveillance and Datafication I was intrigued to learn about the impacts this had on us online as a consumer. The notion of Control Society where businesses are using datafication to sort people into categories based on behavioural responses and therefore predicting human buying patterns was something that appealed to …

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Reflection post – How to make a Podcast sound like a ‘strategic’ conversation.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 / LIZ MERC / EDIT I chose the industry of B2B sales and marketing as an industry as I have worked in it for the past 20 years and I was interested in the impact social media has had on this sector. I was interested in the pros and cons of using social media for brand …

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