Neuromania: The 8 Fallacies of Fanatical Neuromarketers

David Penn of Conquest presented “Neuromania: Why We Need to Re-humanize Research” at the NewMR Virtual Festival. “You’ve probably heard of neuroscience and neuromarketing. As for neuromania, you probably haven’t heard of that.” Some definitions: Neuroscience is “the...

The Case of the Dead Cat: Curiosity Not to Blame

At the NewMR Virtual Festival, Rosie Campbell of Campbell Keegan presented “The Case of the Dead Cat: Curiosity not to Blame”.In this murder case, Curiosity is not a suspect but is in fact a hero of the tale! “What seems to be the problem? As...

Surveys Without Scales – NewMR and Facial Imaging

At the 2011 NewMR Virtual Festival, Alistair Gordon of Gordon & McCallum discussed NewMR and facial imaging and how it could be revolutionary for new market research. As with my NewMR presentation, Alistair was a defender of surveys. “Survey are simple...

How Public is Social Media? Research Perspectives

At ESOMAR 3D 2011, Mike Cooke chaired a panel discussion on privacy with: Adam Phillips, the chair of the ESOMAR Professional Standards Committee and Legal Committee Annie Pettit, of Research Now Manilla Austin, of Communispace Reg Baker, of Market Strategies...

The Rosetta Stone Meets Foucault

Ray Poynter of Vision Critical presented on understanding social media via discourse analysis at ESOMAR 3D 2011. Where the Rosetta Stone enabled people to understand ancient scripts, as the same message was written in the stone in three languages. Michel Foucault was...