The History of The Internet… With British Accent
January 28, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Media, Technology
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The Commodification of Sociability
January 28, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Commodification, Consumerism, Privacy, Social Exclusion, Social Interaction, Social Selection, Social Stratification, Sociology, surveillance society
Damien Babet has an interesting post, in French, on recent forms of commodification of sociability based on a NYT article on apartment owners using companies to manage the sociability of their renters. Take a look a webpage from one such company: In these relatively luxury buildings in New York City, as Babet reports, one can [...]
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