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Media coverage
These are just examples, it isn’t a complete list. Quoting me directly: ‘Shocking’ level of sexual harassment at music festivals – BBC. This story was also in The Sun and many others. Petition launched urging Brewdog to pull “offensive” campaign – PR Week and many others. Fox Hunting Fight Fires Up UK Animal Lovers: Conservative…
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Coca-Cola publish photos of protest against themselves – and then delete them!
On Saturday December 21 ten human rights activists launched a surprise demonstration against Coca-Cola, at the Coca-Cola truck marketing event in Brighton, United Kingdom. The group were demanding that Coca-Cola, as a sponsor of the coming Olympics in Sochi, break their silence on Russia’s homophobic laws. This week, Coca-Cola published official photos of part of…
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dipity / bethgranter
Saw this ages ago but just got reminded of it… cool timeline way of viewing online activity… WAS Dipity. *edit May 2020* However that site now goes to a hardcore porn website after Dipity went out of business! This article has some alternative timeline making services instead.
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Individualism and Social Capital in an Online Social Networking Community: ‘MySpace’ as an organising site for Identity Construction
The valorising of individuality in Western society, which is exaggerated in youth culture, has been described as ‘a cult of individualism’ (Atkinson, 2006: 75). Indicators of such traits may function as commodities in social settings, which in turn could earn social status, increasing social capital (Allik, 2004: 29). Resonating with capitalist notions of the individual…
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How do mainstream ‘lads’ magazines’ represent women and construct concepts of femininity?
“Shag Types: Because women are easier to understand if you stereotype them” (Maxim, 2006: 142). The commodification of women under prostitution or marriage has been widespread in many societies and cultures for centuries. Second wave feminist calls for the sexual liberation of women in the 1970s might appear to be forgetting mainstream media’s representation of…