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Written with verve and a mordant wit, 'The Wheels of Society' is a
vivid, cogent, ground-breaking proposal for us to re-think
ourselves in order to steer civilisation back to safety. As a
species we seem to cling on to the power and influence of 'the old
normal'. Forests and valleys are decimated so that businessmen can
be in Manchester 30 minutes faster; thousands of airline seats are
sold for the price of a free-range chicken so that hundreds of
short-haul planes can devastate the atmosphere and enable drunken
escapades in Barcelona rather than Soho; the rich get even richer
and the poor get Covid 19. Bankers conspire in the fraudulent abuse
of people's savings, yet can keep their loot, saved by governments
supposed to protect their citizens but who fail to hold a single
perpetrator to account. Is this how we are supposed to be? The
biology of society becomes visible when hubris is side-stepped.
First, natural selfishness must be overcome before individuals can
assemble altruistically into a working group - a rather wonderful
achievement. Our cooperating groups, which make up the hierarchy of
society, are living things in their own right. Then, once
assembled, the group must perform trial-and-error cycles to do
life's vital functions. Wilson's 'assembly-and-performance
thinking' combines these two mechanisms into a simple scientific
theory of society which applies, with variations, to all
cooperating creatures - not just to humans.
Practice theories of our equipped and situated tacit construction
of participatory narrative meaning are evident in multiple
disciplines from architectural to communication study, consumer,
marketing and media research, organisational, psychological and
social insight. Their hermeneutic focus is on customarily little
reflected upon, recurrent but required, practices of embodied,
habituated knowing how-from choosing 'flaw-free' fruit in a market
to celebrating Chinese New Year Reunion Dining, caring for patients
to social media 'voice'. In ready-to-hand practices, we attend to
the purpose and not to the process, to the goal rather than its
generating. Yet familiar practices both presume and put in place
fundamental understanding. Listening to Asian and Western consumers
reflecting-not only subsequent to but also within practices-this
book considers activity emplacing core perceptions from a liminal
moment in a massive mall to health psychology research.
Institutions configure practices-in-practices cohering or
conflicting within their material horizons and space accessible to
social analysis. Practices theory construes routine as minimally
self-monitored, nonetheless considering it as being embodied
narrative. In research output, such generic 'storied' activity is
seen as (in)formed, shaped from a shifting hierarchy of 'horizons'
or perspectives-from habituated to reflective-rather than a single
seamless unfolding. Taking a communication practices route
disentangles and avoids conflating tacit and transformative
construction of identities in qualitative research. Practices
research crosses discipline. Ubiquitous media use by managers and
visitors throughout a shopping mall responds to investigating not
only with digital tracking expertise but also from an interpretive
marketing viewpoint. Visiting a practice perspective's hermeneutic
underwriting, spatio-temporal metaphorical concepts become
available and appropriate to the analysis of communication as a
process across disciplines. In repeated practices, 'horizons of
understanding' are solidified. Emphasising our understanding of a
material environment as 'equipment', practices theory enables
correlation of use and demographic variable in quantitative study
extending interpretive behavioural and haptic qualitative research.
Consumption, Psychology and Practice Theories: A Hermeneutic
Perspective addresses academics and researchers in communication
studies, marketing, psychology and social theory, as well as
university methodology courses, recognising philosophy guides a
discipline's investigative insight.
Practice theories of our equipped and situated tacit construction
of participatory narrative meaning are evident in multiple
disciplines from architectural to communication study, consumer,
marketing and media research, organisational, psychological and
social insight. Their hermeneutic focus is on customarily little
reflected upon, recurrent but required, practices of embodied,
habituated knowing how-from choosing 'flaw-free' fruit in a market
to celebrating Chinese New Year Reunion Dining, caring for patients
to social media 'voice'. In ready-to-hand practices, we attend to
the purpose and not to the process, to the goal rather than its
generating. Yet familiar practices both presume and put in place
fundamental understanding. Listening to Asian and Western consumers
reflecting-not only subsequent to but also within practices-this
book considers activity emplacing core perceptions from a liminal
moment in a massive mall to health psychology research.
Institutions configure practices-in-practices cohering or
conflicting within their material horizons and space accessible to
social analysis. Practices theory construes routine as minimally
self-monitored, nonetheless considering it as being embodied
narrative. In research output, such generic 'storied' activity is
seen as (in)formed, shaped from a shifting hierarchy of 'horizons'
or perspectives-from habituated to reflective-rather than a single
seamless unfolding. Taking a communication practices route
disentangles and avoids conflating tacit and transformative
construction of identities in qualitative research. Practices
research crosses discipline. Ubiquitous media use by managers and
visitors throughout a shopping mall responds to investigating not
only with digital tracking expertise but also from an interpretive
marketing viewpoint. Visiting a practice perspective's hermeneutic
underwriting, spatio-temporal metaphorical concepts become
available and appropriate to the analysis of communication as a
process across disciplines. In repeated practices, 'horizons of
understanding' are solidified. Emphasising our understanding of a
material environment as 'equipment', practices theory enables
correlation of use and demographic variable in quantitative study
extending interpretive behavioural and haptic qualitative research.
Consumption, Psychology and Practice Theories: A Hermeneutic
Perspective addresses academics and researchers in communication
studies, marketing, psychology and social theory, as well as
university methodology courses, recognising philosophy guides a
discipline's investigative insight.
How do visitors immersing themselves in material places such as
shopping malls or video sites online make sense of the experience,
enabling criticizing - or consenting to content? How is this
evident in behaviour? Reflecting on accounts by Chinese, Indian,
Malay and Indigenous members of Malaysian society, this book
addresses these questions from a practices perspective increasingly
adopted by scholars in marketing and media studies. The volume
provides an account of practices theory from its origins in
critical hermeneutics (such as Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur), as
reflecting on the processes of embodied understanding, developing
alongside interpretive and reception theory. Part I draws upon
authors as diverse as Heidegger and Henry Jenkins, with a practices
perspective on media and mall consuming shown as developing from
forty years of theorizing about audience activity. An empirical
study of Malaysian blogging and branding on YouTube exemplifies
this approach. Part II considers Malaysians absorbed in social
media sites, as everyday visitors and the subjects of consumer
research. The book then returns to the material world, exploring
the horizons of understanding from which Malaysians enter their
mediated malls, and concludes by positioning media practices theory
within a spectrum of philosophical ideas. Recognizing the current
(re)turn in Consumer and Media Studies to employing hermeneutics as
an account of our embodied human understanding, this book presents
its major philosophical proponents, showing how close attention to
their writing can now inform and shape research on ubiquitous
screen users. As such, it will be of particular interest to
students and scholars of Media Studies, Asian Studies and Marketing
Studies.
How do visitors immersing themselves in material places such as
shopping malls or video sites online make sense of the experience,
enabling criticizing - or consenting to content? How is this
evident in behaviour? Reflecting on accounts by Chinese, Indian,
Malay and Indigenous members of Malaysian society, this book
addresses these questions from a practices perspective increasingly
adopted by scholars in marketing and media studies. The volume
provides an account of practices theory from its origins in
critical hermeneutics (such as Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur), as
reflecting on the processes of embodied understanding, developing
alongside interpretive and reception theory. Part I draws upon
authors as diverse as Heidegger and Henry Jenkins, with a practices
perspective on media and mall consuming shown as developing from
forty years of theorizing about audience activity. An empirical
study of Malaysian blogging and branding on YouTube exemplifies
this approach. Part II considers Malaysians absorbed in social
media sites, as everyday visitors and the subjects of consumer
research. The book then returns to the material world, exploring
the horizons of understanding from which Malaysians enter their
mediated malls, and concludes by positioning media practices theory
within a spectrum of philosophical ideas. Recognizing the current
(re)turn in Consumer and Media Studies to employing hermeneutics as
an account of our embodied human understanding, this book presents
its major philosophical proponents, showing how close attention to
their writing can now inform and shape research on ubiquitous
screen users. As such, it will be of particular interest to
students and scholars of Media Studies, Asian Studies and Marketing
Studies.
Global Advertising, Attitudes and Audiences is a
post-Mcdonaldization view of marketing power, consumer pleasure,
and audience protest. The psychological process wherein consumers
actively make sense of advertising and branding and integrate them
with living is fundamentally important in thinking about their
responses to product sold on screen. This wide-ranging book draws
on forty years of media and marketing theory to present a precise
perception of that process, a seven stage model of 'moments' in
media marketing reception. Local understandings of global branding
and marketing content traveling-often from West to East-is the main
focus of Global Advertising, Attitudes and Audiences. Drawing from
diverse reception studies of creative consumption, Tony Wilson
develops a philosophical psychology of purchasing, testing theory
against shared consumer responses in online blogospheres and
offline interviews. Successive chapters interpret reception of
banking, fast food, national, telecommunications and university
global branding by Chinese, Indian and Islamic Malay consumers in
multi-cultural Malaysia, an Anglophone gateway to S.E. Asia. These
studies are used to illustrate how people view the 'worlds'
constructed by product branding.
Global Advertising, Attitudes and Audiences is a
post-Mcdonaldization view of marketing power, consumer pleasure,
and audience protest. The psychological process wherein consumers
actively make sense of advertising and branding and integrate them
with living is fundamentally important in thinking about their
responses to product sold on screen. This wide-ranging book draws
on forty years of media and marketing theory to present a precise
perception of that process, a seven stage model of 'moments' in
media marketing reception.
Local understandings of global branding and marketing content
traveling-often from West to East-is the main focus of Global
Advertising, Attitudes and Audiences. Drawing from diverse
reception studies of creative consumption, Tony Wilson develops a
philosophical psychology of purchasing, testing theory against
shared consumer responses in online blogospheres and offline
interviews. Successive chapters interpret reception of banking,
fast food, national, telecommunications and university global
branding by Chinese, Indian and Islamic Malay consumers in
multi-cultural Malaysia, an Anglophone gateway to S.E. Asia. These
studies are used to illustrate how people view the 'worlds'
constructed by product branding.
Breaking the Cycle is a series of fictional poems and short stories
derived from true accounts of tragedy, loss and pain combined with
stories of finding inner strength and conquering adversity.
Breaking the Cycle graphically addresses issues of abuse, substance
abuse, heart break, death and conversely love, hope, strength,
spiritual and emotional growth. Breaking the Cycle will give
perspective to individuals who do not understand the plight of
people growing up in impoverished communities and will give a
constructive voice to those who identify but do not have an outlet
to express their story. All of this in hopes of one day completely
Breaking the Cycle of poverty.
Breaking the Cycle is a series of fictional poems and short stories
derived from true accounts of tragedy, loss and pain combined with
stories of finding inner strength and conquering adversity.
Breaking the Cycle graphically addresses issues of abuse, substance
abuse, heart break, death and conversely love, hope, strength,
spiritual and emotional growth. Breaking the Cycle will give
perspective to individuals who do not understand the plight of
people growing up in impoverished communities and will give a
constructive voice to those who identify but do not have an outlet
to express their story. All of this in hopes of one day completely
Breaking the Cycle of poverty.
It's Christmas Eve and three men are struggling: Martin Downing,
unemployed and racked by grief, lies motionless as the storm water
rises around him; Stanley Barwell, a rich industrialist of the
1930s, works late and alone, neither a care nor a friend in the
world; Sergeant Craig, scarred by the carnage of Ypres, sits in a
trench, boiling with anger and whisky. Their lives are worlds
apart, yet inextricably linked. In this captivating twist on a
seasonal tale, the three men are brought together on the last train
home and given their chance at redemption. But will they take it?
Always gripping, sometimes sad, yet ultimately uplifting, don't
miss your place on THE LAST TRAIN HOME.
''The musicians own everything. The company owns nothing. All our
bands have the freedom to f**k off'' Written in blood, The Factory
non-contract set out the manifesto for one of the most influential
and progressive record labels of our time... Manchester, 1976:
Anthony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at an early Sex Pistols
gig. Inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his
friends set up Factory Records. They go on to conquer the world
with Joy Division (who become New Order) then again with the Happy
Mondays. Riding high on their success and just about keeping the
business afloat, the Factory directors decide to give something
back to their city, to open a club - The Hacienda. Packed on
opening night but losing money hand over fist for the first five
years, The Hacienda and the Happy Mondays take their unique brand
of hedonism to breaking point. From the dawn of punk to the death
of acid house, Anthony Wilson was at the centre of it all. Love him
or hate him, you can't possibly ignore him.
This text follows a series of experiential and theoretical routes
toward understanding audience use of television and the Internet.
The essence of play is explored, with a focus across cultures,
predominantly the East's consumption of television and the Internet
produced and presented by the West. Part One discusses recent work
on television audiences considering local viewers' responses to
globally circulating programmes. Part Two discusses the position of
talk shows as a media format central not only to understanding
television's development into narrowcasting, but also the
theoretical study of the Internet. The concluding hypertext shows
how media and their audience-users are converging in practice and
theory.
At 10.55 am, the time is noted in my sketchbook, we have a dog
attack. We are cycling along quietly when suddenly we are nearly
savaged. It's a tiny little beast about ten inches long. One of
those Yorkshire Terrier type dogs, all fluff and teeth...You can
see it think it's the Red Baron; diving out of the sun, straight
for our ankles...We imagine it swaggering back to its look - out
point thinking, 'Frightened those dozy bastards...Pair of scruffy
looking, bare legged, silly old farts in daft helmets.' Two old
friends from Trinity College, Dublin - one a retired accountant
living in Wiltshire, the other a professor of salmon biology in
Newfoundland - decide to ride their bikes round the coast of
Ireland. Fifty years before, they had rowed together in the
university crew; now, more decrepit, they spend their days
meandering through the Irish countryside. As they travel they talk,
and as they talk like only old friends can, their conversations
reflect their own unique experience - the distillation of two
lives, spent in separate continents, concerned with different
priorities, yet unified by their past. Their saga, with many
picaresque adventures along the way, evolves into something much
more. Talking together about what they find - the plight of the
salmon, the troubles in Ulster, their growing sense of the natural
world being destroyed by the inability of philosophy to keep
abreast with the constant flux of scientific discovery - they
stumble upon a theory which could solve what has baffled everybody
since Darwin: How morality evolved? Dual Nature Theory explains
just that! It also accounts for evil and if properly understood,
might allow human beings, finally, to cooperate in solving many of
the ecological, political and economic problems which challenge the
human race.
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