The seemingly mundane case study of people boarding and alighting trams, actually provides a rich canvas for analysing the way people embody valuable capital…
Category Archives: Analysis
How the functions and roles of publishers are changing in an era of digital ‘disintermediation’
In an environment where the ease and ubiquity of digital publishing is allowing globalised individuals to enter the publishing realm, it’s imperative that publishers both embrace and develop their valued functions and roles…
Overview of the industry of self-help books
In the absence of a dominant overarching structure to guide communal conduct, contemporary society has filled this void by turning to individual advice dispensed primarily through the medium of self-help books…
Contradictions of work in contemporary society
Whilst work in contemporary society certainly offers benefits, these can be tempered by issues of anxiety and alienation…
Anthropological observations in an Australian pub
Observations within an Australian pub show it’s really just an extension of home…
The complex negotiation of worker identities within the corporate framework
Constant friction between individuals’ personhood and identity within workplaces, is a necessary component in the development of a corporation’s own identity…
Has digital technology quantified self-help book advice?
How does the integration of Silicon Valley’s innovations, standards, and values into self-help literature influence and quantify the messages?
Audiobook self-help advice: why so popular and how effective is the format?
Despite burgeoning sales of self-help advice in audiobook format, there are few studies of the efficacy of this medium.
Digital media embellishes indie self-help books but…
Digital technology is helping people access print literature. However, are the messages of self-help books diluted with the integration of digital innovations?
What impact have digital developments had on the self-help book market?
From a reader’s perspective, the advent of digital technology upon self-help books has opened up a whole new world…