Marc | July 8, 2008
On June 11th, former Syrian Information minister Dr. Mahdi Dakhlallah raised a number of very interesting questions about why the former cradle of Arab cultures (which he defines variably as Mesopotamia, the Nile, Syria and Lebanon) had failed to modernize as effectively as the Gulf States (see MEMRI Special Dispatch #1976, July 7th, 2008). Of [...]
Marc | July 4, 2008
One of the more interesting things I’ve done in the past few years is to look at how “myths” influence corporations and other organizations. In February, my friend and colleague at Insignia (I’m the Anthropologist in Residence there) Lydia Zorn and I presented some of this at the MRIA QRD conference in Toronto. While the [...]
Marc | July 3, 2008
In a recent blog entry, Matt Armstrong draws on the recent thread on Information Operations at SWC and on some of my posts on the topic and, towards the end, asks some really good questions. are we simply recreating stove-pipes? Is IO strategic, operational, or tactical? Where does IO, for example fit in with Countering [...]
Marc | July 1, 2008
There is a something to be learned from looking at what a person says they are going to do and then looking at their actions. It is, in fact, one of the main reasons why all quantitative work, such as survey research, should be checked against qualitative work such as observational research (“shop-alongs” or “micro-ethnographies” [...]
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