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What is the Science of arresting intelligence long enough to get money from it?
Advertising. Professor Leacock’s full quote: Advertising can best be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Franchising is just like that.… more →
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Social Network Sites as Stages of 'Dramaturgical Performance' - Interpretation Sketch
Liliana Bounegru wrote 1 month ago: A study of the University of Georgia describes as more likely to be narcissist those Facebook users … more →
All the net's a stage
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billpetti wrote 1 month ago: Andy Oram over at O’Reilly Radar writes a really interesting piece on the work of Erving Goffm … more →
TURN *ON Part 3: Pex in Sublic
thinktheatrefuture wrote 1 month ago: A novel performance piece by Maria Llopis dubbed Public Domain: Porn Version (based on catalan theat … more →
The Presentation of Self Online: A Study of People's Relationships to Online Social Network Publics
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sheisoverthere wrote 2 months ago: Recently my Master’s thesis was approved by New York University’s John W. Draper’s … more →
Korean Sociological Image #19: Gee, Gee, Gee...Using Girls' Generation to Study Gender Roles in Korean Advertising
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James Turnbull wrote 2 months ago: As pointed out by Gwen at Sociological Images, pretty and/or sexually-available women are often pres … more →
Ugly Betty OK to run as conservative MP: Official
Tudor wrote 3 months ago: A senior Conservative politician has apologised for suggesting that only attractive female candidate … more →
What is the Science of arresting intelligence long enough to get money from it?
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Les Stewart wrote 4 months ago: Advertising. Professor Leacock’s full quote: Advertising can best be described as the science … more →
SUSTAINABILITAS TERORISME
hagemman wrote 5 months ago: “ Nothingness is the source of not only absolute freedom but also existential horror and emotional a … more →
Goffman as an individualist
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pontoppidandk wrote 5 months ago: Book review: Interaction Ritual is a collection of essays where Erving Goffman looks at so-called fa … more →
Statement of intent and concern: Part III
Matthew Thomas wrote 5 months ago: Matthew Thomas, Kyoto Japan Concern #III: System making Everything’s connected. Reading the classic … more →
Best Euphemism for "Slut"
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missivesfrommarx wrote 5 months ago: I hadn’t laughed out loud while reading an academic book in months, until yesterday. Erving Go … more →
Statement of intent and concern: Part II
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Matthew Thomas wrote 6 months ago: Matthew Thomas, Kyoto Japan Concern #II: On “role drift” This post is the second in my t … more →
Keeping Face
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kimberyknelson wrote 6 months ago: As a population, we care very much about what we look like to other people. Because of this, we bec … more →
Ruth Padel and the presentation of intelligent pulchritude in everyday life
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acacciatura wrote 7 months ago: Something missing in the hullabaloo about a great poet, Derek Walcott, apparently having trouble lea … more →
A gay Arabic-speaking linguist dismissed from the military for his coming out: paradoxes of homosexuality and the military
qmigration wrote 7 months ago: Recently Lt. Dan Choi, a gay Arabic-speaking linguist, was dismissed from the Army National Guard un … more →
The Situational Effect of Groups
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The Situationist Staff wrote 8 months ago: In his Guardian article, “Hands up if you’re an individual,” Stuart Jeffries offer … more →
Making It Up
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Robert Brown wrote 8 months ago: It may not be truthiness, but when we write about ourselves we’re making it up. Put another wa … more →
Luca Ferrari: "A Crack" in Rebibbia Prison
petebrook wrote 9 months ago: Ettore Scalambra © 2009 Luca Ferrari Luca Ferrari is a young documentary photographer who graduated … more →
What a Lovely Big Shiny Purple One My Man Has!
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James Turnbull wrote 9 months ago: ( Source: Wednesday 25th February Korea Times, p. 20; see full advertisement here ) A classic case o … more →
