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Using a 'paired' study, this paper examines why the musicians Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails pursued digital download strategies for their albums In Rainbows (2007) and The Slip (2008). Three explanations at the time (Web 2.0, Chris Anderson's Freeconomics, Scott Anthony's Disruptive Innovation Theory) are evaluated. The paper sketches Disruptive Innovation Markets as a conceptual framework and Disruptive Information Revelation as a process of inductive logic for analysts. The 'paired' study finds other variables not discussed: career arcs, major label contracts, musician control over marketing and risk management, and digital media as a new option during negotiations for new recording deals. Significantly, the three earlier explanations overlooked the musicians' negative experiences after Terra Firma Capital Partners and Vivendi SA acquired their major labels EMI and UMG. Further research opportunities and implications for journalists, policymakers and valuation analysts are discussed.

Al Qaeda's September 11 terrorist attacks have generated an uncertain interdependency between the terrorists, government officials, and favourable media coverage. This article provides an analytical overview of journalistic debates about the CNN Effect, risk reportage, and the rise of strategic geography as an explicit, normative mode of reportage. It suggests the US media reaction in the transitional three weeks between the September 11 attacks and US retaliation against Afghanistan's Taliban regime was shaped, in part, by mediated trauma and integration propaganda. What really unfolded after September 11 was not the demise of journalism's elite but rather the renegotiation of reportage boundaries and shared meanings.

Social media platforms such as Twitter pose new challenges for decision-makers in an international crisis. We examine Twitter's role during Iran's 2009 election crisis using a comparative analysis of Twitter investors, US State Department diplomats, citizen activists and Iranian protesters and paramilitary forces. We code for key events during the election's aftermath from 12 June to 5 August 2009, and evaluate Twitter. Foreign policy, international political economy and historical sociology frameworks provide a deeper context of how Twitter was used by different users for defensive information operations and public diplomacy. Those who believe Twitter and other social network technologies will enable ordinary people to seize power from repressive regimes should consider the fate of Iran's protesters, some of whom paid for their enthusiastic adoption of Twitter with their lives.

Practitioner reflection is vital for knowledge frameworks such as Ken Wilber's Integral perspective. Richard Slaughter, Joseph Voros and others have combined Wilber's perspective and Futures Studies to create Integral Futures as a new stance. This paper develops Embodied Foresight as a new approach about the development of new Integral Futures methodologies (or meta-methodologies) and practitioners, with a heightened sensitivity to ethics and specific, local contexts. Three practitioners conduct a 'trialogue' - a three-way deep dialogue - to discuss issues of theory generation, practitioner development, meta-methodologies, institutional limits, knowledge systems, and archetypal pathologies. Personal experiences within the Futures Studies and Integral communities, and in other initiatory and wisdom traditions are explored.