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Critique of everyday narco-capitalism [PDF]

, 2022
Capitalism is not only an economic mode of production; it is also a form of life. This also applies to a historical type of capitalism, which is the capitalism founded on (illicit) drugs – in other words: narco-capitalism.
M Ghiabi (21878948)
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An Investigation of the Relationship Between Central Bank Unconventional Monetary Policy and Bitcoin Activity

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates whether the unconventional monetary policy (UMP) measures pursued by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, and the European Central Bank since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) are associated with an appetite for cryptocurrency.
Niamh Wylie, Martha O'Hagan‐Luff
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling Critical Impeding Factors of Gamification Adoption: An ISM‐MICMAC Analysis

Global Business and Organizational Excellence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gamification is a transformative technology that attracts consumers and motivates them toward desired actions through fun and engagement. Despite its growing popularity and influence on user behavior, gamification faces significant challenges in acceptance and implementation due to behavioral, technological, economic, and regulatory factors ...
Wamika Sharma, Dinesh Kumar, Aastha Verma, Rodney Lim, Garima Gupta   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Humanism in the Age of Hyperreality: A Speculative Critique of AI Therapybots and the Neoliberal Commodification of Human Beings

The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the future place of humanistic counseling, assuming the successful mass deployment of artificial intelligence therapy chatbots (AITCs). We systematically identify the limitations of AITCs through the lens of Jean Baudrillard's view on simulacra and hyperreality and identify five collective psychosocial consequences of ...
Brett. D. Wilkinson, Andrew M. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Platform Capitalism and the Digital Revolution: Environmental Collapse, Social justice, and the Rise of Techno-Authoritarianism

Ikhtilaf
This article examines the nexus between the digital transmutation of capitalism into platforms of data extraction and invisible labor exploitation and contemporary crises of democracy, ecology, and social justice.
Larbi Touaf
doaj   +3 more sources

Unlocking Value Co‐Creation in IoT Platforms: Insights From a Collaborative Manufacturing Case

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines value co‐creation in IoT platform ecosystems through a case study of the collaborative manufacturing platform E‐LINK. We explore the evolution of platform data capabilities, user interactions, value creation, and the mechanisms that connect them.
Huayao Zhang, Junjie Wu, George Lodorfos, Mingyao Sun, Mickaël Naulleau   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shadow Learning and Knowledge Redistribution: How Workers Appropriate Generative AI Outside Formal Organisational Systems

Knowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organisations are ceding visibility over how their employees develop knowledge. As generative AI tools become widely accessible, workers are steadily building capabilities and co‐producing knowledge through informal AI engagements that operate entirely outside sanctioned training systems.
Eduardo Carlos Dittmar, Martin Sposato
wiley   +1 more source

Manufacturing Nostalgia in the Digital Age: A Foreverism Perspective

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many scholars argue that we are experiencing the era of “retro”—nostalgia‐driven marketing and consumption phenomena reinforced by digital technologies. However, existing research lacks a critical analysis of nostalgia in contemporary markets and of how digital content, tools, and environments transform retro consumption experiences and alter ...
Dinara Davlembayeva, Davit Marikyan, Jonatan Sodergren, Savvas Papagiannidis, Simos Chari   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Globalizing Comparative Public Administration With Integrative Contextualization: State Autonomy in the Developmental Path of Hong Kong and Singapore

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
wiley   +1 more source

One-Dimensional Algorithm: Rereading Marcuse’s Critical Theory Through Platform Culture

International Journal of Communication
This article rereads Herbert Marcuse’s critical theory through algorithmic curation on commercial social media platforms, pursuing a dialectical argument in two directions: first, that platform capitalism structurally reproduces Marcuse’s diagnoses of ...
Dursun Can Şimşek
doaj   +1 more source