Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley +1 more source
Informed Trade of Earnings Announcements
ABSTRACT This paper examines how market participants trade on private information about firm fundamentals using the largest known case of informed trade of earnings announcements. From 2011 to 2015, a cartel of sophisticated traders illegally obtained early access to and traded on over 1,000 firm earnings announcements.
CHLOE XIE
wiley +1 more source
Reporting to audiences in crisis: Disruption, criticism and absent hope in TV journalisms' rendering of the impactful UK energy price rises. [PDF]
Matthews J.
europepmc +1 more source
The Meaning of Work in the Digital Era: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda
ABSTRACT As digital technologies continue to reshape the nature of work, their impact on workers' experience of the meaning of work has attracted growing scholarly interest. However, the existing body of findings remains largely fragmented and conceptually inconsistent.
Yukun Liu +4 more
wiley +1 more source
Framing reproductive narratives: A thematic discourse analysis of news representations of childlessness in 86 countries (2015-2025). [PDF]
Taqwim SF +8 more
europepmc +1 more source
A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
wiley +1 more source
Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy
ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
wiley +1 more source
Civilian mortality and damage to medical facilities in Gaza. [PDF]
Wispelwey B +5 more
europepmc +1 more source
China's Strategic Approach to Tech Diplomacy in a Time of Global Uncertainty
ABSTRACT In the wake of U.S.‐China technological competition and the COVID‐19 pandemic, “tech diplomacy” has gained prominence in Chinese political and academic discourse. This concept is often ideologically framed to critique Western hegemonic narratives perceived as hindering China's technological advancement.
Zhao Alexandre Huang, Xiang Meng
wiley +1 more source
From Mary Shelley to Netflix: a Pan-European perspective on public communication of neuroscience and neurotechnology. [PDF]
Gallar Martínez ÁC +1 more
europepmc +1 more source

