China's embrace of wireless communications — first cellphone text messages, then Internet chat rooms and Twitterlike microblogs — has fueled such protests, allowing the disaffected to share grievances in a way never before possible.
"We need a new debate about the future of the party this is something that should involve everyone in the party we need to embrace new forms of communications to help in this process.
Reich's embrace of the latest communications tools has greatly extended his reach.
Many observers have assumed that participation rates will increase as younger generations, so called "digital natives," embrace new technologies and new modes of communications.
Mark J. Carney, the head of Canada's central bank and soon to be the governor of the Bank of England, also seems to be embracing the "whatever it takes" theory of communications: tying monetary policy to a single measure of overall economic health (like nominal income) rather than multiple metrics (inflation, inflation expectations, unemployment numbers) that may be even easier to understand.
"Kids really embrace it," said Elizabeth Romanaux, the center's director of communications.
Whether the limitless promise of other important applications of communications and computing technology will be embraced, deferred, or forgone will be determined by 'the human factor' as well as by technological and economic considerations.
I now suspect that the new pioneers of communications and media will head to jurisdictions that embrace the evolving nature of media and communications.
The move to embrace video was always going to be a no-brainer, says Kingsley Jayasekera, director of communications and digital strategy at Sadler's Wells.
The Labour deputy leader, an early adopter of Twitter, also told Labour it needed to do more to embrace digital communications.
