This paper is a response to the article: 'Examining the five-stage e-moderating model: designed and emergent practice in the learning technology profession, published in ALT-J 11 (1). Whilst we agree with the concerns of the authors on the problems of commodification and the increasing control of learning technology from a financial or predominantly management perspective, we wish to offer a re...

In recent years we have noticed an increase in the turn to rights analysis in litigation relating to access to health care. Examining litigation, we can notice a contradiction between on the one hand the ability of the right to health to reinforce privatization and commodification of health care, by rearticulating claims to private health care in terms of human rights, and on the other hand, it...

The article aims to explore the link between commodification of nature and food. latter is in fact one most negative controversial aspects commodification. examination food represents fertile ground for investigating relationship humans nature. In this context, sovereignty provides a useful paradigm that not only serves as an alternative current regime, but also allows experiencing different ki...

As the online and the offline world become increasingly intertwined the different concepts of social interaction have to be revisited in order to understand differences and similarities. This paper examines different concepts from the utopian view of the virtual community to the commodification of social relations in Wittel’s notion of network sociality. The purpose is to reveal the underlying ...

This paper addresses the commodification of human experience in late capitalism as depicted William Gibson’s novel Pattern Recognition and potential technology helping subject evading commodification. The shows how virtual world physical can become mutually supportive allowing characters to search for meaning, pattern wholeness by using an empowering force while managing avoid being consumed a ...

This article moves beyond a history of domestic home video fitness programs to explore digital fitness with specific attention to the self-monitored fitness ‘movement’ and the hardware and software that facilitate its proliferation. The research in this area is currently conducted through preliminary small scale studies, alongside some flawed but still (inadvertently) useful undergraduate and g...

This paper takes the view that compensated donation and altruism are not incompatible. In particular, it holds that the arguments against giving compensation stand on weak rational grounds: (1) the charge that compensation fosters “commodification” has neither been specific enough to account for different types of monetary transactions nor sufficiently grounded in reality to be rationally convi...