Content tagged "economics"
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Frontlines of Crisis, Forefront of Change: Climate Justice as an Intervention into (Neo)colonial Climate Action Narratives and Practices
Radical media strategies, on the streets and on the airwaves, are central to the articulation of climate justice and the contestation of hegemonic meanings of climate action that legitimise colonial violence.
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Podcast: Caroline Jack, “How Facts Survive In Public Service Media”
When the Ad Council bombarded television viewers with messages on economic literacy, was it information or propaganda?
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Caroline Jack: “How Facts Survive in Public Service Media”
When the Ad Council bombarded television viewers with messages on economic literacy, was it information or propaganda? One way to answer that question is to look at corporate managers and executives as consequential social actors.
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Reading Between the Lines: Blueprints for a Worker Support Infrastructure in the Peer Economy
At its best, the peer economy can reintegrate people who are defined out of the traditional workplace. At its worst, it exploits human labor and degrades human dignity.
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Distant Harvest: The Production and Price of Organic Food
If we eventually switch over to a more sustainable way of growing our food, we could, says MIT agricultural historian Deborah Fitzgerald, experience the gentrification of our food system.
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Air Trade: Promises — and Pitfalls — in the Coming Carbon Market
The market designs that have been proposed, along with reasons why the carbon market is likely to fail to live up to its greatest promise.
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Podcast: “Cult Media”
Is it profitable to build a franchise on the intense interest of the few and relying on Long Tail economics?
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.art: Situating Internet Art in the Traditional Institution for Contemporary Art
A solid ground for extrapolation and predictions for Internet art’s future as an art world in its relation to the traditional art institutions.
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The Buffalo Wars
The wandering buffalo of Yellowstone National Park are the subject of a heated debate in the western United States.
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Jenkins on Virtual Economies and Gamers
“It’s not just about the fantasy of slaying dragons but about the reality of forming strong bonds with other people.”
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Anthropology of Nostalgia: Primitivism and the Antimodern Vision in the American Southwest, 1880-1930
“Indigenous populations and rural areas become as central to the activities and investments of modernism as urban Western ones.”
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Contested Codes: The Social Construction of Napster
Napster as an object whose meanings were contested and ultimately resolved, or at least stabilized, within, across, and through a broader systems of power.
