An Academy member since 1981, Shamberg also has been working on the inside to try to get the Academy’s board to heed his warnings. According to the suit, he proposed an amendment to the organization’s bylaws in January that would have required the group to adopt a “state of the art” social media strategy and conduct an annual survey of its members.
The Academy’s bylaws allow members to propose amendments, but they do not appear to require that a proposal be put to a vote.
“This revolutionary change in communication is like going from silent films to talkies,” Shamberg argues. “The Academy is stuck in a bland style of impersonal institutional communication which is so last century.”
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