EDITOR'S PICK PSYCHOLOGY & WELLNESS What To Do When Life Is On Hold I get it. You have COVID ennui. I do, too, but as long as we have our health and our jobs, both 2020 and 2021 deserve nothing but to be met with gratitude. Not everyone is as lucky. The truth is, until last year sent us hiding, we were all running at full tilt with our default lives, scarcely […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS INTERVIEWS Chris Chen – Co-Founder of The Next Level This article was originally published here: Chris Chen – Co-Founder of The Next Level What’s your story? I used to be a teacher, but because of my knee injury and critical financial status, I have to find another way to bring better income for my family and myself. 4 years ago, I chanced upon the […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK SOCIOLOGY The Precautionary Principle Wikipedia defines the Precautionary Principle as “a broad epistemological, philosophical and legal approach to [ideas] with potential for causing harm when extensive scientific knowledge on the matter is lacking. It emphasizes caution, pausing and review before leaping into new [behaviors] that may prove disastrous. Critics argue that it is vague, self-cancelling, unscientific and an obstacle to progress.” Its […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
JOURNAL & RESEARCH POLITICS The Politics Of Intellectual Property Introduction: This Article argues that we need a politics, or perhaps a political economy, of intellectual property. Using the controversy over copyright on the Net as a case-study and the history of the environmental movement as a comparison, it offers a couple of modest proposals about what such a politics might look like — what theoretical […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS INTERVIEWS Vikas Garg – Founder & CEO of abillion This article was originally published here: Vikas Garg – Founder & CEO of abillion When he realised his values and his career were at odds Vikas Garg decided that if he could change then he could try to change the world! What’s your story? I am the Founder & CEO of abillion, an ecosystem for […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
PSYCHOLOGY & WELLNESS SOCIOLOGY ‘Bad News’ – A Psychological Vaccine Against ‘Fake News’ ‘Fake news’ and the manipulation of news media have become a fixture of the current political moment. Whereas, attempts have been made to regulate fake news and to direct internet users to more authoritative sources of information, these initiatives have also come under criticism for being overzealous and a break on press freedoms. In the […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ART & DESIGN EDITOR'S PICK SOCIOLOGY Conservation In The Time Of Pandemic As I write, we don’t yet know the full socioeconomic impact of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic on people and places around the world. But we know from conversations we’ve had with colleagues and partners globally that cultural heritage places and the many people who rely on them for their livelihoods have been, and continue to […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CULTURE JOURNAL & RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY Life After Esports? Esports has experienced unprecedented growth recently and with it, the proposition for aspiring gamers to pursue a professional esport career has become increasingly attractive. “Esports” are video-games played competitively (and often professionally) through the means of cyberspace (Campbell et al., 2018) and are an important fixture in the overall gaming industry, which is estimated to […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK ENTREPRENEURSHIP MONEY & FINANCE TECHNOLOGY What We To Stand Gain From GameStop If you would have told me that the financial future of the US markets and economy could hinge on a legacy video game retailer that has been in decline for years, I wouldn’t have believed you. But here we are… GameStop and the collective power of coordinated retail investors have brought about an erosion of […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ART & DESIGN SOCIOLOGY Art And The Development Of Vibrant Communities There was never a golden age of the arts and humanities. Artists and scholars of the humanities seem to have always struggled for financial support, public prestige, political influence, and that ever-changing, seemingly intangible status . . . relevance. Except for the fortunate few who found generous patrons, artists have scrapped and struggled. Except in the halls […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Tracy Lamourie – Founder of Managing Director Lamourie Media This article was originally published here: Tracy Lamourie – Founder of Managing Director Lamourie Media Campaigning for causes she believes in has given Tracy Lamourie skills she now shares with others to help them be heard. What’s your story? I am a high profile international award winning publicist, the Founder and Managing Director of Lamourie […] Written by Callum Laing June 16, 2021June 16, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Relationship Economy Terry Mollner — whose Calvert Impact Capital funds are the world’s largest, at $9 billion (or $12 billion, depending on what source you cite) — is one of the great pioneers of a new economy based on meaningful relationshipsand the common good — a conceptual framework that is increasingly called ‘Game B’ these days, as an alternative to the prevailing […] Written by Anthony Fieldman June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Theoretical Perspectives On Culture Music, fashion, technology, and values—all are products of culture. But what do they mean? How do sociologists perceive and interpret culture based on these material and nonmaterial items? Let’s finish our analysis of culture by reviewing them in the context of three theoretical perspectives: functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. Functionalists view society as a […] Written by Lumen Learning June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Identity Play Or Meme? A friend of mine made me aware of a Facebook group called: a group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony. According to the group’s ‘About’ section, the members are ants, “worship The Queen and do ant stuff. ” Founded in June 2019, the group began to receive mainstream publicity after a viral tweet and has now over 1.9 […] Written by We, Our, Iphones And Us June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The End Of Internet Explorer & The Future Of Microsoft As a user first of Mosaic and then of Netscape, I was not alone in seeing the arrival of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer back in 1995 as an attempt by a company that had completely underestimated the importance of the internet, that had seen the emergence of the Netscape phenomenon, to use the dirty trick of bundling it into the operating […] Written by Enrique Dans May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […] Written by Enrique Dans February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why You’re Not Seeing Success With Influencer Marketing With the new year around the corner, now is a good time to re-evaluate your past marketing strategies and gear up for the year ahead. For some businesses, influencer marketing has simply not seemed to live up to its lofty promises of genuine engagement, credibility, and transparency. Some have claimed that it has been failing […] Written by Michael Tan January 14, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A New Philosophy of Business I’m about to ask you to take a mental leap. For the next 8 minutes, suspend your notions of what a business is, and I’ll propose a new lens for you to look through. There are a lot of questions asked around what “community” means for business. “Where should community fit in my organization?” and […] Written by Empirics Asia September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
