Symbols of Climate Action: Audit Labor and the Production of Carbon Credits
ABSTRACT Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are promoted as tools for financing climate mitigation, yet their effectiveness and credibility remain contested. This article examines how carbon credits are produced and destabilized as symbols of climate action, emphasizing the forms of ecological and audit labor that sustain their legitimacy.
Diego Silva Garzón
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Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below
ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
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Strategic framing of novel ideas: How contestation shapes the evolution of novelty
Abstract Research Summary Entrepreneurs use strategic framing to gain support for their novel ventures, products, and services. A key challenge entrepreneurs face is that audiences often contest frames that introduce novel ideas, especially when these ideas disrupt audiences' mental and business models.
Janina Klein +2 more
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How ventures maintain stakeholder support amidst operational legitimacy threats
Abstract Research Summary We explore how ventures mitigate operational legitimacy threats—threats that originate within the venture and challenge claims relating to the venture's ability to deliver on its promised value proposition. Through an inductive study of four ventures working to deliver their promised products following successful crowdfunding ...
Alex Murray, Susan Cohen, Farhan Iqbal
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Sports Journalists as Agents of Change in Nordic Countries
Sports Journalists as Agents of Change: Shifting Political Goalposts in Nordic Countries identifies and describes changes prevalent in political narratives of sports journalism. Although tensions between professional autonomy and commercial influences in
Anders Graver Knudsen +2 more
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Television and the Public Sphere: The Function of the Realistic Narrative in the Wire [PDF]
The Wire is a television series produced by HBO between 2002 and 2008 and it is a result of research project realized by the former Bultimore Sun journalist David Simon.
Nikola Dedić
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Organizing across cognitive asymmetry in human–AI collaboration: A study of perfume creation
Abstract Research Summary As organizations increasingly adopt generative AI (GenAI), they face a strategic challenge: not only deciding which tasks AI should perform, but also how to organize the integration of human and AI efforts to produce viable solutions.
Tomoko Yokoi +3 more
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Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
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Shining Light on “Dark Science”: Mapping the Field of Science Watchdog Journalism
The journalistic watchdog role has traditionally been theorised as a mechanism for scrutinising political power. Yet comparatively little scholarly attention has been paid to watchdog practices that target science itself, despite growing concerns about ...
Aljosha Karim Schapals +3 more
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Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab
How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We
Michael Schultz +2 more
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