The Researchification of Games

“Since the majority of money spent on market researh is spent on de-contextualised market research – which is essentially asking people to make a theoretical decision – how much predictive value does this really have?” – Rory Sutherland...

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...