Commodification of Culture: Selling India

Yizo Yizo: citizenship, commodification and popular culture in South Africa

This article critically examines the development of an innovative approach to educational broadcasting in post-apartheid South Africa. Examining the policy background and the public debate sparked by the controversial drama series, Yizo Yizo, it is argued that the spatial restructuring of media markets re-articulates the sites and scales at which media practices and citizenship are connected. Y...

Murtahda Mutahhari and John Stuart Mill's Critique of the Consumeristic Commodification of Culture

Economic and health consequences of selling a kidney in India.

CONTEXT Many countries have a shortage of kidneys available for transplantation. Paying people to donate kidneys is often proposed or justified as a way to benefit recipients by increasing the supply of organs and to benefit donors by improving their economic status. However, whether individuals who sell their kidneys actually benefit from the sale is controversial. OBJECTIVE To determine the...

Selling Culture: Implementation of e-Commerce and WAP-based Prototypes

Museum stores represent integral parts of the museums that have also a lot to benefit from a successful presence on the web arena. In addition to traditional web sites, carefully designed electronic commerce (e-commerce) sites may increase the potential of museum stores offering possibilities for on-line shopping and other commercial functions. In parallel, the recent convergence of the traditi...

Consumerism , Commodification , and Beauty : Shiseido and the Rise of Japanese Beauty Culture

This research focuses on the development of advertising in interwar period Japan (between World War I and World War II) and the growing prevalence of the Modem Girl. As women with a certain aesthetic were popularized through advertisement campaigns, this aesthetic was disseminated to a wider audience and incited cultural change. For the purposes of this research, the rosmetics company Shiseido ...