Conceptualizing trust and distrust as alternative stable states: lessons from the Flint Water Crisis
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
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Sep 2023
• #Corporate Governance
The Precarious Citizen. Control and Value in the Digital Age
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
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2016
• #Data Protection
From the Ecology of Broadcasting to the Ecology of Participation. Critical Reflections
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
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2016
• #Culture and Lifestyle
The Embodied Self in a Digital Age. Possibilities, Risks, and Prospects for a Pluralistic (democratic/liberal) Future?
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
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2016
• #Culture and Lifestyle
Experimenting with New Media for Journalism
New media are maturing, and it is increasingly evident that they wield great influence on traditional journalism as we find it in newspapers, radio and TV news programmes. The present article1 deals
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2016
• #Technological Advancement
Online among Us. Experiences of Virtuality in Everyday Life
As argued by Joshua Meyrowitz, in his acclaimed book entitled No sense of place, media change the situational geographies of social life (Meyrowitz 1985). Meyrowitz claims that social roles and
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2016
• #Disinformation
Better (Red)™ Than Dead? Celebrities, Consumption and International Aid
Bono’s launch of Product (RED)TM at Davos in 2006 opens a new frontier for development aid. Product RED is ‘a brand created to raise awareness and money for The Global Fund by teaming up with
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2016
• #Corporate Initiative
The Face of Health . Makeover Culture and New Body Ideals
In Western countries, we can see an increased awareness of health issues, and the importance of taking care of our health. We have also seen the development of certain welfare diseases, for example
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2016
• #Public Health