The Narrative Project - Overview Deck July 2014James North
The overview of the Gates Foundation's Narrative Project, to work with UK NGOs to change the way they discuss development without changing any of the ways it's implemented.
A Linguistic Analysis of the Gates Foundation's 2014 Annual LetterJames North
A linguistic analysis of the Gates Foundation's 2014 annual letter, exposing the neoliberal assumptions about poverty and development that underlie the the Foundation's thinking.
This document is a pamphlet that discusses concentrated power and control on the planet. It argues that a small group of a few thousand people effectively control the global political and economic system through their power and influence, though it is not a literal conspiracy. The pamphlet aims to define the systems and logic that allow this small group to maintain control without active plotting. It discusses factors like neoliberal ideology, corporate power, financial systems, and cognitive biases that prevent many from recognizing or challenging the existing power structures. The overall goal is to stimulate discussion on how to induce positive change within these systems.
This document discusses the potential for online games and virtual worlds to foster global cooperation and development. It argues that these spaces encourage interaction, collaboration, and civic engagement. They can help connect disconnected individuals and possibly alleviate poverty in developing areas through low-tech mobile games. Overall, online communities represent new modes of interaction that meet basic human needs and can serve as a model for a more collaborative society.
This was my summa cum laude thesis for my Bachelor of Arts in Strategic Communication. I compared people's reports of their influence in digital spheres to studies of opinion leadership in the non-digital realm.
This document discusses how political cynicism is related to mass media coverage. It argues that the mainstream media's focus on drama and negativity contributes to a "spiral of cynicism" where politicians feel they must provide cynical stories to get coverage and the public becomes more cynical about the political system as a result of constant negative news. Additionally, the use of "news frames" and sensationalism by media can influence perceptions of politics. Sources of political humor are also examined in terms of their potential effects on cynicism levels. Statistics on current public opinions about politicians are provided.
This document debunks 5 common myths about crowdfunding. It summarizes each myth and provides evidence and arguments against it. The myths addressed are: 1) The crowd is made of dangerous fools. The document argues crowds are diverse and can spread risk, fuel innovation, and help identify fraud. 2) Crowdfunding cannot possibly work. It cites examples of successful crowdfunding campaigns and businesses. 3) Traditional funding sources won't touch crowdfunded companies. It describes how legal structures can aggregate investors and how crowdfunding helps companies get traction for subsequent rounds. 4) Crowdfunding is a den of thieves (fraud and failure). It argues fraud exists across all investments and crowds
This document summarizes research on the impact of satirical news shows like The Daily Show compared to traditional news broadcasts. It discusses several studies that found:
1) Satirical news shows enhance viewer engagement and absorption compared to non-humorous news due to their use of humor, parody, and absurdism.
2) While time spent on substantive issues is similar, satirical shows spend less time on "hype" indicators like polls and horse-race coverage, focusing more on actual issues.
3) Younger viewers are more likely to watch satirical news and develop political views through their interpretations and discussions compared to repetitive traditional broadcasts.
The document concludes satirical news makes viewers more informed citizens by enhancing information
The Narrative Project - Overview Deck July 2014James North
The overview of the Gates Foundation's Narrative Project, to work with UK NGOs to change the way they discuss development without changing any of the ways it's implemented.
A Linguistic Analysis of the Gates Foundation's 2014 Annual LetterJames North
A linguistic analysis of the Gates Foundation's 2014 annual letter, exposing the neoliberal assumptions about poverty and development that underlie the the Foundation's thinking.
This document is a pamphlet that discusses concentrated power and control on the planet. It argues that a small group of a few thousand people effectively control the global political and economic system through their power and influence, though it is not a literal conspiracy. The pamphlet aims to define the systems and logic that allow this small group to maintain control without active plotting. It discusses factors like neoliberal ideology, corporate power, financial systems, and cognitive biases that prevent many from recognizing or challenging the existing power structures. The overall goal is to stimulate discussion on how to induce positive change within these systems.
This document discusses the potential for online games and virtual worlds to foster global cooperation and development. It argues that these spaces encourage interaction, collaboration, and civic engagement. They can help connect disconnected individuals and possibly alleviate poverty in developing areas through low-tech mobile games. Overall, online communities represent new modes of interaction that meet basic human needs and can serve as a model for a more collaborative society.
This was my summa cum laude thesis for my Bachelor of Arts in Strategic Communication. I compared people's reports of their influence in digital spheres to studies of opinion leadership in the non-digital realm.
This document discusses how political cynicism is related to mass media coverage. It argues that the mainstream media's focus on drama and negativity contributes to a "spiral of cynicism" where politicians feel they must provide cynical stories to get coverage and the public becomes more cynical about the political system as a result of constant negative news. Additionally, the use of "news frames" and sensationalism by media can influence perceptions of politics. Sources of political humor are also examined in terms of their potential effects on cynicism levels. Statistics on current public opinions about politicians are provided.
This document debunks 5 common myths about crowdfunding. It summarizes each myth and provides evidence and arguments against it. The myths addressed are: 1) The crowd is made of dangerous fools. The document argues crowds are diverse and can spread risk, fuel innovation, and help identify fraud. 2) Crowdfunding cannot possibly work. It cites examples of successful crowdfunding campaigns and businesses. 3) Traditional funding sources won't touch crowdfunded companies. It describes how legal structures can aggregate investors and how crowdfunding helps companies get traction for subsequent rounds. 4) Crowdfunding is a den of thieves (fraud and failure). It argues fraud exists across all investments and crowds
This document summarizes research on the impact of satirical news shows like The Daily Show compared to traditional news broadcasts. It discusses several studies that found:
1) Satirical news shows enhance viewer engagement and absorption compared to non-humorous news due to their use of humor, parody, and absurdism.
2) While time spent on substantive issues is similar, satirical shows spend less time on "hype" indicators like polls and horse-race coverage, focusing more on actual issues.
3) Younger viewers are more likely to watch satirical news and develop political views through their interpretations and discussions compared to repetitive traditional broadcasts.
The document concludes satirical news makes viewers more informed citizens by enhancing information
This document discusses how new media has impacted news values and journalism. It provides an overview of classical news values according to Johan Galtung and Marie Holmboe Ruge, which include impact, audience identification, and pragmatics of media coverage. Popular 2014 news stories from Google are then analyzed based on these classical news values. While no single story satisfies all twelve values, stories with more negativity and impact received more attention. The document argues that online journalists, not citizen journalists, should adhere to news values to ensure quality journalism.
This document summarizes a report that examines how 14 democratic countries fund and protect the independence of public media. It finds that countries generally use several approaches: multi-year funding to lessen political pressure; structures that link public media directly to audiences; charters that require public-interest content while restricting government influence; and independent agencies/boards as buffers between media and governments. As a result, public media provide more public affairs coverage and viewpoints than commercial media. However, countries vary in how well their systems are funded and insulated from political interference. The report provides models for the U.S. to consider strengthening its own modest public media system.
This document discusses the changing landscape of political journalism in the digital age. It notes that new forms of communication online were thought to provide new outlets to bypass traditional media, but in reality digital media can be more pernicious and less balanced. It examines how political journalism now works with power, media, and the public interconnected online. Key changes discussed include hypertextuality, interactivity, multi-mediality, and the abundance and diversity of information sources. The document questions whether these new forms of journalism can still fulfill the core functions of informing the public, fostering debate, and holding power to account.
Peace has many faces. This booklet presents eight stories which show how people in Zim
-
babwe managed to deal peacefully with conflicts. We hear about Chishuwo (23) in Epworth,
Memory (31) in Murehwa and Jabuliso (92) in Bulawayo – how they succeeded in overcoming
potentially disastrous divisions in their community or their cooperative, how they managed
to forgive people who had treated them violently or had caused other harm to them.
Women talk about how they became victims of politically motivated violence – and how they
learnt to make the most of their lives after their terrible ordeal. We hear how a community
forum can encourage divided residents to lay aside their different opinions and ideologies
and plan together for the development of their village, be it the construction of a well or a
school.
All eight stories have one thing in common: In each case, the best way out of an apparently
unsolvable conflict or a hopeless situation was found only after the intervention of a Zim
-
babwean peace organisation.
These eight organisations have one thing in common as well: They are assisted by expert
personnel from the German Civil Peace Service (CPS) programme. Lawyers, mediators,
psychologists and other CPS experts advise Zimbabwean peace organisations on how to
implement their projects. They all contribute to a more peaceful Zimbabwe by encouraging
people to change their behaviour and tackle conflicts in a peaceful manner.
1. The document discusses what constitutes news and how journalists determine what is newsworthy. It outlines several criteria that journalists use to make this assessment, including whether an event is new, unusual, interesting, significant, involves people, is negative, proximate, recent, continuous, unique, simple, involves personalities, is predictable, involves elite nations or people, or is exclusive.
2. It then provides more details on specific news values identified in a 1965 study, such as negativity, proximity, recency, currency, continuity, uniqueness, simplicity, personality, predictability, elite nations/people, and exclusivity.
3. Finally, it presents an exercise where readers are asked to rank news stories from
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This document summarizes a student honors thesis from Western Michigan University. The thesis analyzed how culture impacts sales practices. The student used Hofstede's cultural dimensions model and the CLAP sales model from WMU to examine Brazil, Germany, and China. The largest cultural differences from the U.S. were compared to the CLAP model. The student concluded with recommendations for salespeople to adapt when working across cultures, including preparing for cultural differences and adapting communications. An experiment was proposed to test the findings.
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This document summarizes a presentation given at the Social Marketing Conference on changing behavior through communications. The presentation discusses how opinion polls are a poor measure of public opinion, and frames shape attitudes and responses. It also notes that development organizations often promote frames they are trying to move away from through their language and communications, unintentionally suggesting who has agency. It recommends prioritizing credibility, studying language use more carefully, and evolving communications models to encourage deeper public engagement over time.
A practical-guide-for-communicating-global-justice-and-solidarityLittle Daisy
This document provides a guide for communicating about global issues in a way that promotes justice and solidarity rather than aid and charity. It suggests alternative framing to move beyond narratives that poverty can be solved solely through donations. The guide offers principles for communicators to avoid unintentionally reinforcing harmful stereotypes and instead present messages that inspire action for change. It is intended to help activists and organizations more effectively communicate their goals of a just, equitable world where all people can live healthy, fulfilling lives.
This document summarizes several articles and studies related to human behavior and persuasion techniques. It discusses research showing that persuasion methods like social proof and scarcity can be more or less effective depending on contextual factors like the content of surrounding media. Other sections summarize studies on how behaviors and ideas spread through social networks, the personality traits associated with online trolling, and an illusion of deep internal mental processes when many behaviors have more superficial causes.
These are slides which accompanied a presentation given at the University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto for a conference focused on gender equity issues.
8.3 Intercultural Communication
Learning Objectives
1. Define intercultural communication.
2. List and summarize the six dialectics of intercultural communication.
3. Discuss how intercultural communication affects interpersonal relationships.
It is through intercultural communication that we come to create, understand, and transform culture and identity. Intercultural communication is communication between people with differing cultural identities. One reason we should study intercultural communication is to foster greater self-awareness (Martin & Nakayama, 2010). Our thought process regarding culture is often “other focused,” meaning that the culture of the other person or group is what stands out in our perception. However, the old adage “know thyself” is appropriate, as we become more aware of our own culture by better understanding other cultures and perspectives. Intercultural communication can allow us to step outside of our comfortable, usual frame of reference and see our culture through a different lens. Additionally, as we become more self-aware, we may also become more ethical communicators as we challenge our ethnocentrism, or our tendency to view our own culture as superior to other cultures.
As was noted earlier, difference matters, and studying intercultural communication can help us better negotiate our changing world. Changing economies and technologies intersect with culture in meaningful ways (Martin & Nakayama). As was noted earlier, technology has created for some a global village where vast distances are now much shorter due to new technology that make travel and communication more accessible and convenient (McLuhan, 1967). However, as the following “Getting Plugged In” box indicates, there is also a digital divide, which refers to the unequal access to technology and related skills that exists in much of the world. People in most fields will be more successful if they are prepared to work in a globalized world. Obviously, the global market sets up the need to have intercultural competence for employees who travel between locations of a multinational corporation. Perhaps less obvious may be the need for teachers to work with students who do not speak English as their first language and for police officers, lawyers, managers, and medical personnel to be able to work with people who have various cultural identities.
“Getting Plugged In”
The Digital Divide
Many people who are now college age struggle to imagine a time without cell phones and the Internet. As “digital natives” it is probably also surprising to realize the number of people who do not have access to certain technologies. The digital divide was a term that initially referred to gaps in access to computers. The term expanded to include access to the Internet since it exploded onto the technology scene and is now connected to virtually all computing (van Deursen & van Dijk, 2010). Approximately two billion people around the world now access the Internet regularl ...
8.3 Intercultural Communication
Learning Objectives
1. Define intercultural communication.
2. List and summarize the six dialectics of intercultural communication.
3. Discuss how intercultural communication affects interpersonal relationships.
It is through intercultural communication that we come to create, understand, and transform culture and identity. Intercultural communication is communication between people with differing cultural identities. One reason we should study intercultural communication is to foster greater self-awareness (Martin & Nakayama, 2010). Our thought process regarding culture is often “other focused,” meaning that the culture of the other person or group is what stands out in our perception. However, the old adage “know thyself” is appropriate, as we become more aware of our own culture by better understanding other cultures and perspectives. Intercultural communication can allow us to step outside of our comfortable, usual frame of reference and see our culture through a different lens. Additionally, as we become more self-aware, we may also become more ethical communicators as we challenge our ethnocentrism, or our tendency to view our own culture as superior to other cultures.
As was noted earlier, difference matters, and studying intercultural communication can help us better negotiate our changing world. Changing economies and technologies intersect with culture in meaningful ways (Martin & Nakayama). As was noted earlier, technology has created for some a global village where vast distances are now much shorter due to new technology that make travel and communication more accessible and convenient (McLuhan, 1967). However, as the following “Getting Plugged In” box indicates, there is also a digital divide, which refers to the unequal access to technology and related skills that exists in much of the world. People in most fields will be more successful if they are prepared to work in a globalized world. Obviously, the global market sets up the need to have intercultural competence for employees who travel between locations of a multinational corporation. Perhaps less obvious may be the need for teachers to work with students who do not speak English as their first language and for police officers, lawyers, managers, and medical personnel to be able to work with people who have various cultural identities.
“Getting Plugged In”
The Digital Divide
Many people who are now college age struggle to imagine a time without cell phones and the Internet. As “digital natives” it is probably also surprising to realize the number of people who do not have access to certain technologies. The digital divide was a term that initially referred to gaps in access to computers. The term expanded to include access to the Internet since it exploded onto the technology scene and is now connected to virtually all computing (van Deursen & van Dijk, 2010). Approximately two billion people around the world now access the Internet regularl.
On the 7th of November another Refugee Academy meeting took place at the Aurora room at VU Amsterdam. Together with the audience and a panel we talked about the reception of refugees and what influence this has on the integration.
The document summarizes the election of Jeremy Corbyn as the new leader of the British Labour Party. It discusses how Corbyn, an unlikely left-wing candidate, was elected in a surprise victory over more moderate candidates. While Corbyn has enthusiastic support from those who want a more left-leaning agenda, many in the Labour Party fear he will lead them to electoral losses due to his far-left policies being unacceptable to the broader public. The election marks a swing back toward the left for Labour and away from the more centrist policies that led to their most recent electoral successes under Tony Blair. There is now uncertainty around whether Corbyn can survive long-term as leader or whether his policies will prove too
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The document discusses the challenges of writing a contextual analysis essay, which requires an understanding of the topic's context through a detailed examination of historical, cultural, social, and literary factors. It notes that finding the right balance of providing background information while conducting an in-depth analysis is difficult. The essay also demands strong research skills to gather relevant sources and the ability to synthesize information into a cohesive argument.
What is the Role of English Studies in the Information Economy?Bill Hart-Davidson
The document discusses the role of English studies in the knowledge economy. It argues that English studies should:
1) Help turn information into knowledge by imparting critical thinking and production strategies.
2) Address literacy divides by intervening in technological and economic factors that exacerbate inequities.
3) Explore the human need for social interaction and develop students' capacity for interaction.
4) Facilitate cross-cultural understanding by going beyond the classroom.
The document suggests English studies can achieve these goals by directly creating and combining information systems, becoming agents of technological change, and promoting social support in our societies.
This document discusses how new media has impacted news values and journalism. It provides an overview of classical news values according to Johan Galtung and Marie Holmboe Ruge, which include impact, audience identification, and pragmatics of media coverage. Popular 2014 news stories from Google are then analyzed based on these classical news values. While no single story satisfies all twelve values, stories with more negativity and impact received more attention. The document argues that online journalists, not citizen journalists, should adhere to news values to ensure quality journalism.
This document summarizes a report that examines how 14 democratic countries fund and protect the independence of public media. It finds that countries generally use several approaches: multi-year funding to lessen political pressure; structures that link public media directly to audiences; charters that require public-interest content while restricting government influence; and independent agencies/boards as buffers between media and governments. As a result, public media provide more public affairs coverage and viewpoints than commercial media. However, countries vary in how well their systems are funded and insulated from political interference. The report provides models for the U.S. to consider strengthening its own modest public media system.
This document discusses the changing landscape of political journalism in the digital age. It notes that new forms of communication online were thought to provide new outlets to bypass traditional media, but in reality digital media can be more pernicious and less balanced. It examines how political journalism now works with power, media, and the public interconnected online. Key changes discussed include hypertextuality, interactivity, multi-mediality, and the abundance and diversity of information sources. The document questions whether these new forms of journalism can still fulfill the core functions of informing the public, fostering debate, and holding power to account.
Peace has many faces. This booklet presents eight stories which show how people in Zim
-
babwe managed to deal peacefully with conflicts. We hear about Chishuwo (23) in Epworth,
Memory (31) in Murehwa and Jabuliso (92) in Bulawayo – how they succeeded in overcoming
potentially disastrous divisions in their community or their cooperative, how they managed
to forgive people who had treated them violently or had caused other harm to them.
Women talk about how they became victims of politically motivated violence – and how they
learnt to make the most of their lives after their terrible ordeal. We hear how a community
forum can encourage divided residents to lay aside their different opinions and ideologies
and plan together for the development of their village, be it the construction of a well or a
school.
All eight stories have one thing in common: In each case, the best way out of an apparently
unsolvable conflict or a hopeless situation was found only after the intervention of a Zim
-
babwean peace organisation.
These eight organisations have one thing in common as well: They are assisted by expert
personnel from the German Civil Peace Service (CPS) programme. Lawyers, mediators,
psychologists and other CPS experts advise Zimbabwean peace organisations on how to
implement their projects. They all contribute to a more peaceful Zimbabwe by encouraging
people to change their behaviour and tackle conflicts in a peaceful manner.
1. The document discusses what constitutes news and how journalists determine what is newsworthy. It outlines several criteria that journalists use to make this assessment, including whether an event is new, unusual, interesting, significant, involves people, is negative, proximate, recent, continuous, unique, simple, involves personalities, is predictable, involves elite nations or people, or is exclusive.
2. It then provides more details on specific news values identified in a 1965 study, such as negativity, proximity, recency, currency, continuity, uniqueness, simplicity, personality, predictability, elite nations/people, and exclusivity.
3. Finally, it presents an exercise where readers are asked to rank news stories from
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This document summarizes a student honors thesis from Western Michigan University. The thesis analyzed how culture impacts sales practices. The student used Hofstede's cultural dimensions model and the CLAP sales model from WMU to examine Brazil, Germany, and China. The largest cultural differences from the U.S. were compared to the CLAP model. The student concluded with recommendations for salespeople to adapt when working across cultures, including preparing for cultural differences and adapting communications. An experiment was proposed to test the findings.
Definition essay: English essay outline example. 37 Outstanding Essay Outline Templates (Argumentative, Narrative .... Writing An Outline For An Essay.
This document summarizes a presentation given at the Social Marketing Conference on changing behavior through communications. The presentation discusses how opinion polls are a poor measure of public opinion, and frames shape attitudes and responses. It also notes that development organizations often promote frames they are trying to move away from through their language and communications, unintentionally suggesting who has agency. It recommends prioritizing credibility, studying language use more carefully, and evolving communications models to encourage deeper public engagement over time.
A practical-guide-for-communicating-global-justice-and-solidarityLittle Daisy
This document provides a guide for communicating about global issues in a way that promotes justice and solidarity rather than aid and charity. It suggests alternative framing to move beyond narratives that poverty can be solved solely through donations. The guide offers principles for communicators to avoid unintentionally reinforcing harmful stereotypes and instead present messages that inspire action for change. It is intended to help activists and organizations more effectively communicate their goals of a just, equitable world where all people can live healthy, fulfilling lives.
This document summarizes several articles and studies related to human behavior and persuasion techniques. It discusses research showing that persuasion methods like social proof and scarcity can be more or less effective depending on contextual factors like the content of surrounding media. Other sections summarize studies on how behaviors and ideas spread through social networks, the personality traits associated with online trolling, and an illusion of deep internal mental processes when many behaviors have more superficial causes.
These are slides which accompanied a presentation given at the University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto for a conference focused on gender equity issues.
8.3 Intercultural Communication
Learning Objectives
1. Define intercultural communication.
2. List and summarize the six dialectics of intercultural communication.
3. Discuss how intercultural communication affects interpersonal relationships.
It is through intercultural communication that we come to create, understand, and transform culture and identity. Intercultural communication is communication between people with differing cultural identities. One reason we should study intercultural communication is to foster greater self-awareness (Martin & Nakayama, 2010). Our thought process regarding culture is often “other focused,” meaning that the culture of the other person or group is what stands out in our perception. However, the old adage “know thyself” is appropriate, as we become more aware of our own culture by better understanding other cultures and perspectives. Intercultural communication can allow us to step outside of our comfortable, usual frame of reference and see our culture through a different lens. Additionally, as we become more self-aware, we may also become more ethical communicators as we challenge our ethnocentrism, or our tendency to view our own culture as superior to other cultures.
As was noted earlier, difference matters, and studying intercultural communication can help us better negotiate our changing world. Changing economies and technologies intersect with culture in meaningful ways (Martin & Nakayama). As was noted earlier, technology has created for some a global village where vast distances are now much shorter due to new technology that make travel and communication more accessible and convenient (McLuhan, 1967). However, as the following “Getting Plugged In” box indicates, there is also a digital divide, which refers to the unequal access to technology and related skills that exists in much of the world. People in most fields will be more successful if they are prepared to work in a globalized world. Obviously, the global market sets up the need to have intercultural competence for employees who travel between locations of a multinational corporation. Perhaps less obvious may be the need for teachers to work with students who do not speak English as their first language and for police officers, lawyers, managers, and medical personnel to be able to work with people who have various cultural identities.
“Getting Plugged In”
The Digital Divide
Many people who are now college age struggle to imagine a time without cell phones and the Internet. As “digital natives” it is probably also surprising to realize the number of people who do not have access to certain technologies. The digital divide was a term that initially referred to gaps in access to computers. The term expanded to include access to the Internet since it exploded onto the technology scene and is now connected to virtually all computing (van Deursen & van Dijk, 2010). Approximately two billion people around the world now access the Internet regularl ...
8.3 Intercultural Communication
Learning Objectives
1. Define intercultural communication.
2. List and summarize the six dialectics of intercultural communication.
3. Discuss how intercultural communication affects interpersonal relationships.
It is through intercultural communication that we come to create, understand, and transform culture and identity. Intercultural communication is communication between people with differing cultural identities. One reason we should study intercultural communication is to foster greater self-awareness (Martin & Nakayama, 2010). Our thought process regarding culture is often “other focused,” meaning that the culture of the other person or group is what stands out in our perception. However, the old adage “know thyself” is appropriate, as we become more aware of our own culture by better understanding other cultures and perspectives. Intercultural communication can allow us to step outside of our comfortable, usual frame of reference and see our culture through a different lens. Additionally, as we become more self-aware, we may also become more ethical communicators as we challenge our ethnocentrism, or our tendency to view our own culture as superior to other cultures.
As was noted earlier, difference matters, and studying intercultural communication can help us better negotiate our changing world. Changing economies and technologies intersect with culture in meaningful ways (Martin & Nakayama). As was noted earlier, technology has created for some a global village where vast distances are now much shorter due to new technology that make travel and communication more accessible and convenient (McLuhan, 1967). However, as the following “Getting Plugged In” box indicates, there is also a digital divide, which refers to the unequal access to technology and related skills that exists in much of the world. People in most fields will be more successful if they are prepared to work in a globalized world. Obviously, the global market sets up the need to have intercultural competence for employees who travel between locations of a multinational corporation. Perhaps less obvious may be the need for teachers to work with students who do not speak English as their first language and for police officers, lawyers, managers, and medical personnel to be able to work with people who have various cultural identities.
“Getting Plugged In”
The Digital Divide
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Practical guide for the celebration of World Environment Day on june 5th.
Open Letter to CEOs of NGOs
1. c/o The Rules
115 5th Avenue, 6th Floor
New York 10003
[name/address]
August 29, 2014
Dear XXX
Re: The Narrative Project
We are writing to you and your counterparts in other organisations to draw attention to core features of The
Narrative Project that we believe are inauthentic and misleading. We would like to ask you to take a moment to
pause, and consult more widely before committing any more of [you organisation’s] time, resources or credibility
to the project, on the grounds that is based on inauthentic ‘science’, and is proposing an approach that will not
only waste your resources, but, more importantly, attempts to mislead the public. Essentially, The Narrative Project
is asking you to stay chained in the past; to keep doing the same thing, with a few minor cosmetic adjustments,
and expect different results. This would be important at any time, of course, but is especially so as we head into
2015 and the post-MDG conversation becomes more mainstream.
Four years ago, we worked with many of your staff and colleagues to bring authentic semantic frame analysis to
bear on the discourse around poverty alleviation, charitable giving and international development. This culminated
in a report that BOND published called Finding Frames: New Ways to Engage the UK Public on Global Poverty.
Since publication, we have seen waves of discussion and new initiatives around the frames within this discourse
roll out across Europe, Australia and North America. We have also seen the idea of frame analysis move into the
mainstream of professional development and activist circles, with many groups, from nef in the UK, to
CONCORD in Belgium, to Smart CSOs in Spain, to BMZ in Germany to Global Witness in the US and Action
Aid in Australia devoting considerable time and effort to trying to get to grips with what it exposes, and what it
means for their work.
Unfortunately, alongside genuine efforts, we have seen some less rigorous, more opportunistic attempts that
cherry-pick one or two points and bend them to fit pre-existing agendas and we’re sorry to say we believe The
Narrative Project falls into this category. To name just two of its essential shortcomings:
Despite its claims and liberal use of “framing” language, nothing in the literature suggests there has been any
actual frame analysis. The methodology is limited to capturing what people say in focus groups and to pollsters,
rounded off with assumptions and educated guesses. The essential difference between the two is that frame
analysis deconstructs the language to expose its building blocks of logic, and thereby understand “why” people
think what they do, at the level of both conscious expression and the more powerful subconscious logic, whereas
focus groups and polling stops at the shallow and conscious “what” and fill in the gaps with pure subjectivity.
The reason the former is so important is two fold: firstly, 98% of human cognition happens subconsciously. This is
where the building blocks of people’s attitudes and beliefs exist. What emerges in the conscious is the end
product of that logic; what, to the individual, feels like common sense. Trying to understand the causes and
features of this common sense without semantic frame analysis is guesswork at best and has no empirical
standing. Secondly, focus groups and polls are not natural exercises for the participants; responses are highly
conditioned by the environment. What you say to a pollster or in a group of strangers and what you say in the
comfort of your own home can be very different. Relying solely on the former is a recipe for misunderstanding.
Secondly, the misrepresentation of the science then leaves ample room for confusing the purported objective –
re-engaging the public in the fight against global poverty by “creating a climate that helps us all be more effective”,
presumably at you mission, which is clearly stated as overcoming poverty - with the clearly stated actual
2. objective –increasing donations to charities. The KPI against which success is measured is, essentially, increased
charitable fundraising and support for aid, which we know very well is commonly understood as national charity.
But these are not inherently compatible. In fact, all the evidence from psychology and the cognitive sciences
suggests that, in terms of the frames they rely on and their component values, they stand in active opposition to
each other.
One thing we learnt very early on in our work was that cognitive linguistics is a highly specialised area of
expertise. It is emphatically not something anyone with a communications or campaigning job description
automatically understands or can apply, at least not without training and expert guidance. It is, however, easy to
drape the language of frame analysis over almost anything related to communications and claim its virtue.
When we found people with real and relevant expertise in 2010, our first step was to conduct and peer-review a
study to characterise the dominant frames in the conversation about global poverty. After that, we commissioned
different analysts to deconstruct a full year’s worth of Oxfam GB’s communications materials, and, among other
things, they validated the original findings of the poverty discourse. Then, in 2012 we undertook a third project
with IPPR and linguists from the University of Lancaster that found, yet again, the same basic features in the
discourse. Finally, we spent considerable time cross-referencing with colleagues in the environmental movement
who were doing similar analysis, with similar rigour and that delivered similar results1. The key findings were as
follows:
• An emphasis on charity and aid plays to and perpetuates paternalistic notions of Western dominance
that are vestiges of post-colonialism and empire from a past era. That these attitudes linger at all explains, in
part, why old-fashioned charity messages have any remaining traction, especially the sort of “flies in their eyes”
pity-based imagery so despised in the developing world. The truth is, with charity come moral hierarchies,
with poor people at the bottom. The concept is fully encased in the idea of powerful givers and grateful
receivers. This is why it is practically impossible to talk about it without evoking in the mind of the audience
passive (usually black or brown) victims and active (usually rich and white) saviours; why no amount of good
news stories will change the basic reaction people have; why trying to tell this story in the same breath as
talking about genuine equality and shared values is fruitless – you are asking thin, conscious messages to
contradict thick, subconscious logic because they are profoundly outgunned, cognitively speaking.
• The belief that poverty is “natural” conceals the real causes of poverty and therefore excludes any
approach capable of actually bringing it to an end.
• Massive loss of faith in NGOs that have over-promised and under-delivered (a la Make Poverty History),
undermining public confidence in these institutions and further diminishing the prospects for success in the
long run.
• Absence of focus on deep moral foundations and structural causes, revealing a “depoliticised”
approach that fails to address (1) how ideology and belief shape development agendas or (2) the legal and
economic structures that have been put in place by elites as “wealth extraction mechanisms” that create
inequality and poverty.
• A paternalistic treatment of “the poor” as passive, voiceless victims who cannot play any active role
in shaping their destinies.
All of these findings point toward the need for deep re-orientations of how the development project—as
opposed to the ODA project—is discussed with the public at large.
There is a clear alternative open to you; one that resonates with [your organisaiton’s] values and promises far
greater long-term results.
1 See Common Cause, the Case for Working with Cultural Values and a range of other resources at www.valuesandframes.org
3. 1. Ask you staff to start from the assumption that there are valuable lessons in the opinions that you hear, and
work with those opinions to establish an accurate creation story for poverty and inequality. This
will activate powerful neural circuitry by providing a complete and therefore “sticky” logic. For facts and
ideas to become stories that come alive in people’s minds, with actors and images and movement, they need,
at the very least, a beginning, middle and end. As Aristotle said, “the soul never thinks without a picture” and
poverty and inequality are no different. Right now, the beginning is missing in the way NGOs talk about the
problem (poverty just is; almost as though it were a natural occurrence), the middle is reductive and, as you
are finding, increasingly disbelieved as people detach from old-fashioned moralistic beliefs about poverty (i.e.
the answer is to give more charity and aid) and so - and this is particularly important when looking forward
to 2015 - any talk of an ending is hollow and meaningless; it will feel, instinctively, like spin.
2. Building on this, start telling stories of the system with [your organisation’s] full voice. By which we mean,
fundraising, trading and campaigns. Help people make connections, and be a channel through which they can
make fulfill their clear and building desire to move away from old-fashioned moralising. ODA is the polar
opposite of this because it represents, very deeply, the contained and restrictive logic of charity. It’s rich
people giving, out of the goodness of their hearts, little bits of money to those poor people. I’m sure you
don’t see it that way, but all the evidence shows that this is the dominant public understanding, and has been
for generations. That’s why the charity and aid story is being increasingly rejected, especially by millennials,
and why it has all the negative associations The Narrative Project mapped, in the way many studies had done
before. This should be fantastic news and a huge opportunity for anyone interested in social justice. It is an
opportunity for NGOs to align with progressive social movements around the world who are surging
forward in this space. They will do so with or without the NGOs; the question is for you, whether you want
to be an anchor holding us to the past, or a force helping push the boundaries of social justice into the future.
3. Start hiring relevant experts; social psychologists, cognitive linguists, systems theorists, evolutionary
anthropologists, to name just a few. We’d suggest if you want to start small, start with authentic cognitive
linguists. Mainstream their insights in your strategising for how [your organisation’s] one voice speaks.
4. Set an intention and make a plan to evolve. We’re not suggesting that any of this is without challenges
for you or can be done overnight. Many of the partners in this project are synonymous with charity; they
grew incredibly successfully in the 20th Century using a charity business model and fully embracing its charity
identity. That made perfect sense then, but the world has moved on. We now have powerful concepts like
crowdfunding (Avaaz, for example, brings in over $30 million annually in crowdfunding, and no one calls
them a charity), hugely successful tools like Kickstarter putting practical flesh on the conceptual bones, vast
horizontal and dispersed organising inspiring new generations of activists, not to mention the new paradigms
for social justice, like those articulated by the likes of Occupy.
5. Make your messages consistent with your practices. When Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “your actions
speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying” he was making an insightful comment about how the
brain works. Framing is not a way of making messages more persuasive: messages are merely surface level -
the small 1/10 shard of the iceberg above the water. If the subconscious logic – the 9/10 of the iceberg –
represent one worldview, and messages another, the logic will always win. That is why the confused way
“frames and messages” are talked about in The Narrative Project is a recipe for extremely wasteful
communications, at best.
We will not speculate on the motivations of the Gates Foundation or the NGO leaders involved in steering this
project, other than to point to the fact that by focusing the conversation on ODA and prioritising fundraising
objectives, they are—knowingly or otherwise—actively diverting attention from the structural causes of poverty
and inequality, including:
• Cultural Feedbacks in the hegemony of discourse where empirically discredited stories (like “trickle down
economics” or the theory of rational action) are spread through the consolidation of media ownership and
covert public relations efforts that reinforce the status quo.
4. • The Tax Haven System that, according to the Tax Justice Network, is shielding at least $26 Trillion dollars
from the public purse, and is the channel for the extraction of at least $1 Trillion a year from developing
countries
• Anonymous Ownership and the use of shell companies to shroud transnational business dealings in
secrecy—enabling gun running, drug and sex trafficking, and all manner of corporate/governmental corruption
to continue abetting this global system of wealth extraction.
• The Extraction of Perpetual Debt that results in wealth transfers to Western governments, corporations
and financial institutions that are many times greater than the value of the original loan. We are seeing a large
amount of activity that falls into this category in the agriculture and farming space right now, with a so-called
“Green Revolution” being rolled out across Africa that diverts huge amounts of money to support industrial
agriculture. The best evidence suggests this sort of activity is already costing developing countries around
$600 billion a year, and with agricultural reforms is likely to cost a considerable amount more in future.
• Resource Extraction through so-called “free trade” agreements that enable multinational corporations to
impose and exploit licensing arrangements heavily rigged in their favour. The new patent licensing fees alone
are estimated to cost developing countries around $60 billion a year
These structural factors dwarf ODA many times over, and there is far more that could be included. We know
that you and your organisation—certainly many of your staff, especially in policy and campaigns departments —
recognise and care deeply about such things. And yet The Narrative Project is attempting to herd you, with the
stick of inauthentic science and the carrot of research and perhaps other funding, towards being more of an
agent of denial of these structural issues.
The frames that aid and charity promote are in direct psychological opposition to the frames—particularly the
essential moral dimensions —found in the more structural story. It is simply not the case that you can promote
aid and charity in one breath, and the structural story in another and expect them both to be heard because
each activates very different logical and emotional mental processes. They are deeply incompatible with each
other and compete for resources in the “mind space” of perception and awareness. So there is, to a degree, a
binary choice to be made at the highest strategic level. And it is abundantly clear which choice the Gates
Foundation favours. Given Save the Children’s size and importance as a leader in the field, this has far reaching
implications for public understanding, if only in the sense of progress denied.
Finally, we want to let you know that we are about to publish an opinion piece that is critical of this project. We
are also undertaking some social media work highlighting our concerns to NGO staff in the UK, US, Europe and
Australia, and will make this letter available to them in an effort to encourage open questioning of the evidence
and logic of The Narrative Project. We do all this somewhat reluctantly, and only after all the aforementioned
work behind the scenes over many years. But, given the systematic way that evidence has been denied or
sidelined over a protracted period by some leaders in the Gates Foundation and elsewhere, it is our firm belief
that unless there is wider discussion of these issues, including amongst your staff and the world-aware public, it is
unlikely that we will see any serious critical appraisal of this approach, or examination of the ideological agenda
that sits behind it, and hence far less progress in engaging an empathetic and intelligent public in this vital work.
We hope you will read it as testament to our commitment to doing what we believe will best help the struggle
against poverty and inequality, and not as an attack against [your organisation].
That said, we recognise that you may find this a somewhat forceful intervention. We would assure you that if
there is any way we can be of help we would be more than happy to engage, again, in a more private way. In the
first instance, we would love to provide you with any of the research you may not have already seen, and put
you in touch with some of the researchers, cognitive linguists, behavioural scientists, anthropologists, evolutionary
psychologists, moral philosophers, complex systems researchers and many other experts we have had the good
fortune to be able to learn from over the years.
5. Yours sincerely, and with warm wishes
Martin Kirk Joe Brewer
Head of Strategy Research Director
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Winnie Byanyima, Oxfam International Hugh Evans, Global Poverty Project
Celine Cheveriat, Oxfam International Simon Moss, Global Poverty Project
Brigid Jansen, Oxfam International Jane Atkinson, Global Poverty Project
Stephen Hale, Oxfam International Joanne Carter, Results
Mark Goldring, Oxfam GB Colin Smith, Results
Patrick Watt, Save the Children Victoria Treland, Results
Juliette Perrard, Save the Children Sam Worthington, Interaction
Jamie Drummon, ONE Campaign Deborah Willig, Interaction
Adrian Lovett, ONE Campaign Liz Schrayer, US Global Leadership Coalition
Andrew Axlerod, The UN Foundation John K. Glenn, US Global Leadership Coalition
Caleb Tiller, The UN Foundation Dr. Wolfgang Jamann Welt Hunger Hilfe
Aaron Sherinian, The UN Foundation Barbel Diekmann, Welt Hunger Hilfe
Ben Jackson, BOND Mathias Mogge, Welt Hunger Hilfe
Farah Nazeer, BOND Kevin Cahill, Comic Relief
Helen D. Gayle, CARE Amanda Horton-Mastin, Comic Relief
Nick Osborne, CARE Michele Settle, Comic Relief
Steve Davis, PATH Caroline Kent, DSW
Arnie Batson, PATH Renate Bahr, DSW