The Consumer-isms Geography Preview: Silverport University
October 14, 2007
It’s a big university dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge, kudos, grants, and good press.
In U Spin Me, Baby! (But Will It Play in PR-ia), Silverport is typical academic university that’s the epicenter of an atypical problem in a shifting landscape, one where gate-keepers are losing their clout and those who know how t beguile those once powerful gate-keepers are finding themselves getting caught up in the middle of a changing battlefield.
It’s almost as if the university is finding itself trying to swim out of a raging flood.
Escape out of those invisible waters is the key objective.
In simpler times, you needed someone who had a map of the grounds and could safely and quickly guide the ship to the gates, and persuade the gate-keepers to open the doors so that the ship could sail to calmer waters.
It’s harder to function like that these days.
Even though Silverport is the physical geographical location, the main battlefield is another location — a psycho-geographical one.
So it really doesn’t matter where Silverport is located or what it looks like.
Because that’s not where the battle is really being fought.
