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Inexpensive and user-friendly digital tools for manipulating text, images and sounds — think Photoshop or GarageBand — have dramatically broadened access to the means of cultural production and blurred the lines between amateurs and professionals. But the question is not just how many people engage in cultural production — it’s how people engage.&
... See moreROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
Glamworship is a tube website that differentiates from all the other 1.3m websites by focusing exclusively on "financial domination.
Customs4u: The premise was simple: it was the Cameo for adult entertainment before Cameo existed.121withThis idea here was that tradespeople - such as plumbers or real estate agents - could sell their expertise via an
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I track some of the ways technologically mediated intimacies are framed in popular, mass-mediated discourses as failed,
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Perhaps because the imperatives of the market so often come into direct conflict with the values associated with the care of others, the systems have not operated in perfect symmetry. Instead, because a profit-driven commercial sphere cannot accommodate the values of nurturance and care associated with the intimate sphere, aesthetic values—for exam
... See moreMicki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
In dieser neuen Fassung des amerikanischen Traums lag ein unerfülltes Leben an einer ungenügenden psychischen Selbstverwirklichung – ein Zustand, der sich durch die passende therapeutische Arbeit heilen ließ. Nur wenn das eigene innere Potenzial freigesetzt wäre, könnte und würde man sozial und emotional erfolgreich werden. Und auch das Gegenteil w
... See moreEva Illouz • Explosive Moderne: Eine scharfsinnige Analyse unserer emotionsgeladenen Gegenwart (German Edition)
what the French fin de siècle social theorist Gabriel Tarde called “the grooves of borrowed thought”71—patterns of thought that are unlikely to create any serious disruption of the status quo.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
Wie die literarischen Autorinnen interessieren sich auch die Soziologinnen für die allgemeine Dimension der individuellen Erfahrung.