Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation by Liz Featherstone

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] rely on subterfuge to be successful. In the same way that spin-doctors don’t wish to become the focus of the news, or, in an earlier age, the Nazi propaganda machine sought to camouflage itself, this form of political messaging seeks to avoid public cynicism about politics by trying to conceal itself as ‘normal chatter’. […]

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