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Unpossible

November 21, 2016November 21, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 231 Views complexity, conservation, democracy, Donald Trump, evaluation, innovation, media, monitoring and evaluation, narrative, politics, resilience, Sinclair Lewis, systems thinking, tardigrade, United States

‘Post-truth’ was named the Oxford Dictionary word of the year. No fitting word reflects the strangeness of 2016 with the

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Our Paradoxical Age

September 19, 2016September 19, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 849 Views Carl Jung, climate change, Donald Trump, environmental health, journalism, Marshall McLuhan, mental health, Nicholas Carr, paradox, Pokemon Go, politics, social experiments, technology

If there was a word we could use to define the current times, paradox would certainly have to be a

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The more we get together

June 18, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 166 Views complexity, diversity, Donald Trump, England, Ethan Zuckerman, journalism, Marshall McLuhan, media, media ecology, Nicholas Carr, Robin Dunbar, social networks, technology, United Kingdom, United States

As we forge ever-greater connections online to each other and the world of ideas the thinking was that we would

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Frogs, Pots, Blogs and Social Media

December 30, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 421 Views blogging, climate change, complexity, design, Facebook, Hossein Darakhshan, information design, information literacy, information technology, ISIS/ISIL, journalism, obesity, politics, social media, social networks, systems thinking, terrorism, wicked problems

Our information landscape has been compared with our diets providing an ample opportunity to compare what we ‘consume’ with how

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The Power, Peril and Promise of Health Journalism

February 14, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 574 Views anti-vaccination, Ben Goldacre, CBC Radio, Gardasil HPV vaccine, health reporting, journalism, Julia Belluz, knowledge translation, media ecology, medical evidence, medicine, newspapers, public health, science, the fourth estate, The Guardian, Toronto Star, vaccines

The Toronto Star, Canada’s most widely read newspaper known for its investigative reporting gifted anti-vaccination audiences armament by using poor

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Sane truths in Crazy Town: What Rob Ford’s story offers politics, science and journalism

February 17, 2014February 17, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 157 Views Andre Picard, Ben Goldacre, book review, Crazy Town, Edward Snowden, evidence, Globe and Mail, journalism, Julia Belluz, Rob Ford, Robyn Doolittle, science, Toronto

A new book about Toronto’s (in)famous mayor reveals a great deal more than just a story of man known more

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Shaking the System of Knowledge Translation and Journalism

September 10, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 262 Views AOL, complexity, developmental evaluation, digital economy, dominant design, emergence, Harvard University, innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, knowledge translation, media, New York Times, newspapers, Nieman Journalism Lab, path dependency, public policy, publishing, resilience, resiliency, science, social media, systems thinking, The Joan Shorenstein Center, transmedia, Twitter

Leveraging systems change comes when you are willing to examine the system itself, not just the component parts. News media

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300: Crises in Complexity, Opportunities in Design

August 31, 2013August 31, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 193 Views architecture, blogging, complexity, design, design for emergence, developmental design, developmental evaluation, emergence, Globe and Mail, Hannah Montana, maker culture, making-meaning, media, Miley Cyrus, Monocle, MTV Music Video Awards, music, Nautilus Magazine, newspapers, policy, Robin Thicke, science, social media, The Alpine Review, Vi Hart, weak signals, wicked problem

In 2009 Censemaking was launched as a platform to explore issues in complexity and ways we can make sense of

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Disrupted Time: Review of Present Shock

August 18, 2013August 19, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 191 Views Albert Einstein, book review, books, Boston, complexity, contemplative inquiry, Douglas Rushkoff, Egypt, emergence, foresight, fractal, journalism, mindfulness, narrative, Present Shock, psychodynamic theory, sensemaking, simplicity, singularity, systems thinking, time

Most simply, ‘present shock’ is the human response to living in a world that’s always on real time and simultaneous.

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