• The value of Facebook

    There is a short entry in today’s Financial Times about Facebook and the uncertainty surrounding its IPO. Essentially, people...

  • Media Bias and Advertising

    Media bias is a very interesting topic. Much recent research tries to figure out what causes media bias (slanting) and what is...

  • Social media: What next?

    By now, most will acknowledge social media is here to stay. What can we expect and how do companies stay ahead? A digital...

  • Kuehne & Nagel

    The Kuehne family started shipping goods throughout Germany more than 125 years ago. Today, Kuehne and Nagel is one of the...

  • Academic literature on new media

    Recently a colleague of mine has asked me what would be the key academic papers on the topic of “new media”. It took me a few...

  • Technology über alles

    The death of Apple’s Steve Jobs has made the world reflect on how technology – not a little of that because of Jobs – has...

  • Fair Trade?

    Hardly a week goes by without yet another milestone for “ethically labeled” products. You know, the products that are labeled ...

  • Is food marketing making us fat?

    Are we to blame for the obesity epidemic? Or the people who sell the food to us? New research shows that packaging and position...

  • Controlling the urge

    Does the ability to control one urge extend over the ability to control other urges? For example, the urge to control a full...