Posts Tagged ‘ Deviance ’

CfP: New Technologies and the Changing Landscapes of Leisure

August 11, 2010
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CfP: New Technologies and the Changing Landscapes of Leisure

Call for Submissions for an Edited Collection Chapters exploring the use and impact of new technologies on leisure experiences are sought for a proposed book. Abstracts are requested by 15th October 2010 with a view to publication following successful review and publisher selection. The full call for papers can be viewed and downloaded  from Scibd. Technologies and platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, computer games, streaming media and smartphones, augmented reality services and haptic sensors along with an always-on and ever-connected culture have significantly transformed the Western world spends its leisure time. New technologies have enabled people to amplify and...

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Downloading as Deviance

July 7, 2010
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Downloading as Deviance

Image by Rami ™ via Flickr Posted an update of this on Scribed on Aug 2011.   One of the papers I’m currently working on is ‘Downloading as Deviance: Discourses of immorality, consumer ethics and the practice of internet piracy’. It still needs some polishing but I am keen to get feedback on what I’ve written so far so have been circulating it amongst colleagues. The paper looks at the way internet piracy is framed as theft and therefore immoral and asks how useful really is such an approach? What is to be gained from regarding customers as criminals?...

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