Commodification

2016. Not with Stempsey, William E. "Selling Human Organs Is Unethical." Technology and Society. Ed. Auriana Ojeda. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2002. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "Paying People to Give Up Their Organs: The Problem with Commodification of Body Parts." Medical Humanities Review (Fall 1996). Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 9 Sept.…

commons, are now constrained from doing so by neoliberal market forces. As Barbara Fister (2010) notes, libraries are at an interesting point in the transformation that higher education is experiencing. The neoliberal turn that has led to the commodification of what scholars do – teach and create knowledge – has had a profound effect on the academic library. The current financial problems that libraries face – escalating cost of subscriptions to journals and databases, a shrinking…

The article introduced a lot of International television formats in the European countries. The international format trade has seen enormous growth and acceleration for the long time. International television formats was an effective channel to absorb the audience. From chart formats, we can see that Denmark the unequal use of international formats, the disparity between DR1 and TV2. From the article, it has divided entertainment into fiction, traditional entertainment and factual entertainment.…

In 1861, Harriet Jacobs publishes the first full-length slave narrative written by a woman under the pseudonym Linda Brent. In her autobiography, titled Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet shines a light on the sexual harassment women endured under the system of slavery, however, with the Civil War in its midst the book didn’t get the attention it deserved until it was later recovered and widely published during 1987. Harriet takes the cultural narrative of the time period, men are…

Yoga Pants Not for Yoga “Build arm and core strength!” “Lose weight today!” “Get toned and balanced!” All of these assertions are recurrent headlines for the incessant proliferation of yoga in the media. Prominent corporations delineate yoga as the latest fitness fad, glamorizing its capability to promote preferable physical health. This contemporary incarnation of the ancient discipline has flourished in the United States into a multi-billion-dollar industry, built with the interests of…

In today’s western capitalist societies individuals are consciously and subconsciously immersed into the constantly growing world of technology, with the internet, social media and global connectivity. This emergence of new media and technology has profound effects on society and individuals. Thus, bringing forth the theory of ‘the Culture Industry’ and its relevance today. The culture industry argument was developed by Adorno and Horkheimer and focuses on the effects of capitalist mass media…

Challenging the Inclusion of Intersectionality in the Academy Introduction With this paper, I will explore the inclusion of intersectionality in the academy. To do so, I will provide a genealogical analysis of the ways in which intersectionality has been taken up and implemented by the neo-liberal academy and feminist scholars. The purpose of this paper, then, is to trace the history of intersectionality in relation to the academy in order to consider a future that is beyond inclusion. My…

In recent year, there are lots of studies and researches about different impacts of the tourism industry. Tourism is defined as “the sum of phenomena and relationships arising from the travel & stay of non residents” (French, Craig-Smith, Collier (2000) p.8). The activities that take place in a particular tourist destination could produce a number of impacts on different environments. Some of the main environments that tourism operates in could be economic, cultural, social and the natural…

All around the world, genders are discriminated by other genders. These discriminations caused women to be treated unequally. Women are being used as sex material, categorized and treated differently. Thus, the researcher believes that women can do many things and they can be a person that people will look as a precious thing not just a person that would satisfy men’s sexual needs. To prove this point, the researcher begins with explaining what pornography is. Next, she defines what gender…

Ward, Irene. “How Democratic Can We Get?: The Internet, the Public Sphere, and Public Discourse.” JAC, vol. 17, no. 3, 1997, pp. 365–379. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20866148. Irene Ward’s overall argument in her article, “How Democratic Can We Get?”, is that modernity’s digital media revolution has transformed communication and the way individuals understand and interact with the world. Like the Internet, mediums of digital media have the ability to transform democracy and the “public”…