When it comes to easing the burden of homelessness, free sock donations from a “mission-driven” company like Bombas have nothing on public funding and state intervention. jacobin.com/2024/03/bombas…

congratulations 👏 to Lizzie Nixon for presenting her #MarketingTheory paper 'What is an advert?...' (w Robert Cluley) to the Parliament, as part of a new research into impacts of outdoor advertising
article is now  #freeaccess please share & read!
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🥁 new #MarketingTheory pre-print commentary on 'linking value' (Bernard Cova and Franck Barès): 'Our aim is to reopen the black box of linking value that marketing researchers have kept closed during the last few decades.'😳
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reminder🥁 deadline to apply for 'The Theorisation PhD Seminar' for consumer culture scholars (Ankara, Turkey) is fast approaching! - 22 March 2024🧿
please rt, spread the word and encourage your students
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Creative resistance: new #OpenAccess research by Maureen McBride @uofgsociology finds that by writing and performing a play as part of a youth-led #theatre project, #working -class young people in Glasgow came to see the positives of life in their community.

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NEW! #MarketingTheory SI The Platformization of Consumer Culture. articles explore various dimensions of platformization across a range of contexts from consumer activism in Greece to the US 'gunfluencers” read now: journals.sagepub.com/toc/mtqa/24/1

Our Book of the Week explores how audit culture – the stuff of rankings, statistics, and numbers – operates across a wide range of fields, including health, higher education, NGOs, finance, the automobile industry, and the military.

For Pluto Press

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The pervasive influence of Pax Americana on global culture contends with the significant underreporting of international crises. American media's global dominance results in a skewed international awareness.

By Rohitha in TheSwaddle

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After years of relentless union busting — costing the company nearly a quarter-billion dollars, in one estimate — Starbucks Workers United has now forced the corporation to negotiate. It may prove the most important organizing breakthrough in decades.
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Don't wait until it's too late! Register for the 2024 Business History Conference annual meeting before the March 4 deadline 📆 👀 🚨 to take advantage of advance registration rates

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After years of bitching to each other about this, Ben Litherland and I have started a podcast about media influences and 'effects', and the often-terrible 'research' that informs those panics.

Subscribe to ILL EFFECTS wherever you get your podcasts, and please spread the word!

This reads like a very interesting CfP

Very happy and grateful to share that my paper, 'The “decline” of London’s curry houses, invented tradition, authenticity, gastromythology,' written in 2019, was recently published as an early access in the journal Consumption, Markets & Culture. tandfonline.com/eprint/MNJVGG8….

Tech giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon are increasingly developing apps and services offering mental health treatment. The value of these products for users is dubious — but they do promise the companies lucrative new sources of highly personal data.
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Finally got to hold a physical copy of our English version of 'Digitalization and social change: A guide in critical thinking'. Feeling proud! Dr Roger A. Søraa

Do you use creative or alternative #qualitative approaches in your marketing & consumption research? Please consider submitting to our cfp with Marketing Theory

#CallforPapers : Special Issue of Marketing Theory 'Advancing Marketing Theory through Alternative Qualitative Methods'. Submission Deadline: 01 September 2024. Read more
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🥁 🪘 current issue of #MarketingTheory , a peer-reviewed journal for alternative and critical perspectives on marketing theory
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Before tragically dying at age 32, Chris Chitty, a brilliant historian of gay life and capitalism, produced an illuminating unfinished book, Sexual Hegemony. In it, he provided a longue durée account of the development of homophobia and homosexuality.
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