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Trade Shows in the 21st Century
Why do professionals keep attending face-to-face industry gatherings when digitization offers cheap, fast and time-saving technological solutions for professional interactions? This book sets out to explain such a phenomenon by analysing the reasons why professionals go to professional events, the role of events on individual careers and the way events can be instrumental in structuring emerging professions and (re)affirming stable, shared professional identities.
The Social Meaning of Extra Money
Why do ordinary people who used to engage in domestic and leisure activities for free now try to make a profit from them? How and why do people commodify their free time? This book explores the marketization of blogging, cooking, craftwork, gardening, knitting, selling second-hand items, sexcamming, and more generally the economic use of free time. It outlines how the development of web platforms, the current economic context and post-Fordist values can account for this extension of market and labor. Drawing on a range of interviews, ethnographic observations, and quantitative surveys, the contributors question the empowering effects of commodification, with a specific focus on how gender and class inequalities affect the social meanings of extra money. Ultimately, the collective findings demonstrate how commodification pervades even the most mundane social activities. This research will be invaluable to scholars and students with a focus on gender and digital sociology, the sociology of work and labour, and the marketization of leisure.
Uncertainty
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In Uncertainty, Patrik Aspers provides detailed analysis of publicly available means of uncertainty reduction. Drawing on phenomenology, social constructionism, and the sociology of knowledge, Aspers considers the meaningful differences between uncertainty and risk, the different ways people cope and have coped with uncertainty through history, the importance of knowledge and science to reducing uncertainty, and the trade-offs involved in reducing forms of uncertain...
Pitchs, Workshops, Networks
Pitchs, Workshops, Networks... La montée en puissance de ces dispositifs dans le monde de la production audiovisuelle des dernières décennies questionne leur rôle et leurs enjeux dans le processus de développement et de financement d’une œuvre. Ils représentent un véritable marché des projets audiovisuels sur lequel se penchent les contributeurs de cet ouvrage, à travers l’étude de ces modalités physiques d’intermédiation, vouées à garantir la crédibilité des projets et à créer de la confiance dans un contexte où l'incertitude domine les échanges. Envisagées comme des « accélérateurs de production », « découvreurs de talents », « outils de sélection » ou...
Cultural Journalism and Cultural Critique in the Media
This book addresses a topic in journalism studies that has gained increasing scholarly attention since the mid-2000s: the coverage and evaluation of arts and culture, or what we term ‘cultural journalism and cultural critique’. The book highlights three approaches to this emerging research field: (1) the constant challenge of demarcating what constitutes the ‘cultural’ in cultural journalism and cultural critique, and the interlinks of cultural journalism and cultural critique; (2) the dialectic of globalization’s cultural homogenization and the specificity of local/national cultures; and (3) the need to rethink, perhaps even redefine, cultural journalism and cultural critique in v...
Nos vies, nos objets
Étude sociologique du rapport aux objets et des pratiques de la vie quotidienne
Ma(d)skulinitet
Nar tv-kokke som Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay og brodrene Price toner frem pa skAermen, laver de ikke kun mad. De mixer ogsa maskulinitet. For nar en mand laver mad, laver maden ogsa manden. Det mener madkulturforsker Jonatan Leer, der i Ma(d)skulinitet. Konskamp i tv-kokkenet viser, hvordan og hvorfor celebrity chefs siden 90'erne har udfordret og fornyet den traditionelle maskuline identitet. Nar mAend laver mad pa tv, ser vi i dag ikke kun den professionelle uniformerede kok eller den frankofile levemand. Vi moder ogsa drengeroven, der gor det cool at lave mad derhjemme, gastronomen, der kobler mad med nationale fortAellinger og madaktivisten pa mission for sundere madvaner og maddannelse. Det viser sig imidlertid, at nar kokkene konstruerer kon, identitet og idealer, lAegger de sig overraskende ofte op ad en traditionel, patriarkalsk mandefigur.
Les avatars jouables des mondes numériques : Théories, terrains et témoignages de pratiques interactives
Ces créatures d’images polymorphes que sont les avatars jouables nous font exister dans les mondes numériques des jeux vidéo, et même dans certains sites Web communautaires ou ludiques. Parce qu’elles nous y métamorphosent, elles apparaissent emblématiques des pratiques interactives les plus sophistiquées et troublantes. Toutefois, leurs propriétés et effets, espérés ou redoutés, restent encore à éclairer, ainsi que toutes ces interactions à distance réalisées par avatars interposés, au cœur des simulations audiovisuelles informatiques contemporaines. Ancré en sciences de l’information et de la communication, ce premier ouvrage collectif francophone sur le thème co...
Sociologie d'internet - 2e éd.
Comment internet, désormais intimement lié à nos existences, modifie-t-il nos façons de se rencontrer, de travailler, de militer, de consommer ou de se cultiver ? Structuré en chapitres thématiques – interactions, sociabilités, médias, politique et économie –, le présent ouvrage revisite les promesses d’internet en matière de démocratisation, de transparence et d’empowerment des individus. Enfin, il fait également le point sur les méthodes d’enquêteque permet nternet.
Representations et symbolique de la guerre et de la paix dans le monde arabe
The studies published in this book focus on representations and symbolics of war and peace in the Arab World over the long term. The authors are specialists in various disciplines (sociology, anthropology, history, linguistic and literary studies). They pay particular attention to the language of their corpus, from the founding texts, Koran or hadiths, through the historian's classical sources (texts by authors of the classical Arab heritage), up to contemporary productions, from militant texts to works of fiction.
