This chapter offers an empirical examination of this common account of how fashion works. Do fashion styles ‘trickle-down’? That is, do we see the diffusion of styles from high-status to lower-status actors within countries, and from central to more …
Getting Signed is a book that builds a powerful critique of one of the biggest and most influential music industries worldwide, unveiling how the ideological motive of getting signed brings individuals to sign their own exploitation in the promise of …
Economic inequality is on the rise in Western societies and ‘meritocracy’ remains a widespread narrative used to justify it. An emerging literature has documented the impact of meritocratic narratives in media, mostly focusing on newspapers. In this …