THE IDEA OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REGARDING INSTRUMENTAL AND COHERENT MODELS OF
Increased competition between enterprises means that they have to combine social and economic dimensions in their activities 1. One of the manifestations of the indicated process is the focus on the Read More »
HOW COULD BUSINESSES PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY?
Today, consumer behavior and Business investments are influencing/impacting various environmental and social spheres. Among the consequences are climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution that Read More »
Social Work Promoting Community And Environmental Sustainability: A Workbook For Global Social
Incredible work is being done all over the world by social workers addressing issues at the nexus of community and environmental sustainability. Whether you are a longtime supporter of social workers Read More »
Visuality As Greenwashing: The Case Of BP And Deepwater Horizon
We use a visual semiotic approach to explore how BP utilized the power of the visual after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Through the careful construction and use of images on its corporate Read More »
Women And Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
History clearly highlights the status of women as weak and confined to household activities with no role in the state or society. Regions where women were treated low, and under mined with no place Read More »
Achieving The Sustainable Development Goals: Africa's Challenges And PAID's Response
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been adopted by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that expired in 2015. Like the MDGs, the SDGs Read More »
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 Read More »
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 Read More »
The Embodied Self In A Digital Age. Possibilities, Risks, And Prospects For A Pluralistic
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 »
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 Read More »