Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America. [PDF]
Soc Stud SciAk O.
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The role of digital capital in parental engagement
Education and Information TechnologiesAbstractPrevious studies discussed the relationship between parental engagement and different forms of capital, such as cultural or social capital. The current study takes a step further by referring to digital capital. It examines the direct and mediating effects of parents' digital capital on their engagement in their children's learning.
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Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
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The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions
Erika Kuever
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From filters to fairness: understanding colourism through TikTok aesthetics and trends. [PDF]
Front SociolMajumdar MR.
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“Touching the Tarmac”: Conjuring the Urban Frontier on a Remote Periphery
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Anthropologists have demonstrated how the creation of land markets as “frontiers” for global capital requires practices of “conjuring”—the narrative construction of place as desirable for large‐scale investment. This article emphasizes the contingency of this conjuring process in an urbanizing Kenya where land‐selling companies have emerged to
Peter Lockwood
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Navigating Social Media: Balancing Connectivity With Media Literacy to Combat Misinformation and Protect Mental Well-Being. [PDF]
Health Promot J AustrAl Musawi HK.
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What entrepreneurial decisions enable the breeding of digital platform unicorns?
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Digital platforms have revolutionized business sectors; however, despite their significant success, platform unicorns remain rare. While extensive research exists on digital platform growth, it is uncertain what entrepreneurial decisions achieve unicorn status.
Sea Matilda Bez +3 more
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Digital habitus and the sociotechnical transformation of everyday life in the United Arab Emirates: a hybrid framework of governmentality, surveillance capitalism, and Gulf state modernity. [PDF]
Front SociolAbulbasher A.
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