Welcome to the first iteration of the eb™ Journal. At this stage, it contains over one thousand academic papers and other research that have been produced over several decades by over two thousand authors from around the world. The vast majority are selected because they use terms such as ethical brand and ethical branding to characterise settings and outcomes in many different techno-industrial consumption contexts that concern the social, economic and environmental well-being of humanity.
Background: Understanding consumers' behavioral choices after the stimulus of negative events has great significance for repairing consumer perceptions, improving crisis management strategies for Read More »
Despite the universally recognized importance of fostering trust and avoiding distrust in governance relationships, there remains considerable debate on core questions like the relation between Read More »
In what follows I aim to highlight the issues of value and control in socialisation processes facilitated by the new social media, by interrogating the nexus of leisure and work, surveillance and Read More »
More than forty years ago, Marshall McLuhan, among others, famously started theorizing and analysing what will be referred to here as the ecology of broadcasting (McLuhan 1964; McLuhan & McLuhan Read More »
In the following, I seek to address three major but interrelated questions. First, how do emerging information technologies interact with our sense of self/selves, i.e., who we (believe we) are as Read More »