Since the 1980s, most universities in the Western world have experienced substantial changes as a consequence of an ongoing process of commodification. Commodification affects a variety of aspects of higher education, such as research, teaching, administration, and even such nonacademic activities as the intercollegiate sports programs of U.S. universities. This book focuses on one of these asp...

Starting from the 15 century in the Atlantic slave trade, black people have been treated by lighter-skinned counterparts as commodities to be sold and bought. The effects of the trade and the resulting dehumanization can still be seen in subsequent historical events and in today’s society. Analyzing the Haitian Revolution in the late 18 century through literature such as The Grateful Negro by M...

With an explicit focus on the Australia’s KFC T20 Big Bash League, my article explores how cricket is packaged as an affective televisual spectacle. The Big Bash’s technological innovations and refinements blur the lines of information, entertainment and commodification, while allowing a traditional broadcast media form to be re-presented in non-traditional ways. That is, cameras and other tech...

This paper aims to provide insights into the concept of ‘user empowerment’ in current –digital and connectedmedia industries. We start by defining empowerment as a concept rooted in certain research traditions that focus on user behaviour and capabilities in dealing with digital and connected technologies and the production, aggregation, distribution and consumption of content. We then oppose ‘...

In the commodification of consent, a legal concept designed to empower users has been transformed into an asset that can be traded across firms. Users interact with consent dialog offered by one coalition member. The default setting allows any other member, including both publishers and third-party vendors, use this as basis for processing personal data. doing so, creates interdependent privacy...

Abstract China and Vietnam have experienced waves of labour welfare reform since both countries shifted to market socialism, pursuing a development model that depends on the millions rural–urban migrants in global factories. Their similar trajectories are productive for theorizing relationship between welfare. This article conceptualises two countries’ distinctive regime migrant as integral cyc...