New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication
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Openings: William Lessard Interviews Adeena Karasick and Warren Lehrer
No full textOpenings: William Lessard Interviews Adeena Karasick and Warren Lehre
Review: Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It (Brookings Institution Press, 2022).
No full textReview: Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It (Brookings Institution Press, 2022)
Commodifying Taste: An Autoethnography of Free Labour, Exploitation and Alienation on Spotify
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the business and marketing practices of the music streaming service Spotify. The paper demonstrates that Spotify’s features are designed to elicit free labour from its users so that Spotify may exploit this labour, alienate its users from the products of this labour, and ultimately reap the maximum benefits from this labour. This is accomplished primarily through the attachment of marketing to, or the commodification of, the social and affectual roles that music plays in the human experience, such as allowing individuals to forge bonds over shared music taste. Spotify benefits from these practices in numerous ways, such as the obtaining of user data that betters the platform’s algorithm and attracts paying targeted marketers, or the propagation of free and effective marketing for the service undertaken by users. The processes by which these benefits are realized also, in many cases, act in a cyclical nature, perpetuating themselves. The end goal of this paper is to bring academic attention to the specific forms of free labour, exploitation and alienation occurring on Spotify in an effort to lay groundwork for the development of alternatives
Incarnation and Digitization: Marshall McLuhan and the Digital Humanities
No full textOne of the defining features of the developing field of the Digital Humanities (DH) is its interdisciplinary character. This paper will attempt to indicate how theological insights can contribute at a more theoretical level to DH
II. Excerpts from B.W. Powe’s Ladders Made of Water
No full textII. Excerpts from B.W. Powe’s Ladders Made of Wate
Expanding Walter J. Ong’s Relationist Spirit: A Bibliographic Review Article
No full textExpanding Walter J. Ong’s Relationist Spirit: A Bibliographic Review Articl
In Other Words: Review of Introduction to Media Ecology, Paolo Granata (2021)
No full textIn Other Words: Review of Introduction to Media Ecology, Paolo Granata (2021
Press Release: ÆROTOMANIA: THE BOOK OF LUMENATIONS
No full textPress Release: ÆROTOMANIA: THE BOOK OF LUMENATION
V. Poetry of the Reviewers of Ladders Made of Water
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Mastering Media: A Review of Paolo Granata’s MediuM - A Marshall McLuhan Board Game
No full textMastering Media: A Review of Paolo Granata’s MediuM - A Marshall McLuhan Board Gam