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Did a TV ad campaign change the future of a country?

A few months ago, I caught a screening of the 2012 Chilean film No. The film is a visual case study of an actual campaign on Chilean television leading up to the 1988 referendum of the presidency of Augusto Pinochet, who had been uncontested leader of Chile since a military coup in 1973. Many of…

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What good is theory if you can’t apply it?

By Carina Ludgate, communications co-ordinator  Is a practical skill better than the ability to formulate an argument based on theoretical knowledge, or vice versa? When it comes to the field of communications specifically, how valuable is theoretical knowledge if it can’t be used to help communicate our messages? Many communications students may have asked themselves…

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