Bethany Qualls (January 22, 2025). Finding Beau Brummell in Caen. In Punch’s Pocket Book: Archiving an Archive. Retrieved March 3, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/138q4.
“The thesis highlights how each region defines and classifies cultural industries differently, reflecting their unique cultural heritages and modern adaptations. For example, China’s inclusion of traditional arts and digital media, Japan’s blend of traditional crafts and UNESCO frameworks, and South Korea’s focus on Hallyu (Korean Wave) and digital content. This aligns with Throsby’s (2001) notion of cultural industries as encompassing both traditional and commercial elements. However, the author might not have deeply explored how globalization affects local cultural identities, which is a common critique in cultural economics (Hesmondhalgh, 2013).”
Pablo Markin (February 25, 2025). Cultural Industries, Asian Countries, and Economic Impact. Open Culture. Retrieved March 3, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/13d92.
“It’s Friday evening in the presidential apartment at the Élysée Palace and Brigitte Macron has organised a cosy, welcome-home evening for the French president off the back of his dash over to Washington. Following her cameo in Emily in Paris, she has set the stage for both a romantic eve and a little political strategising to distract from tropical storms in far-flung territories and tedious domestic affairs. To get Emmanuel in the mood she has asked her manservant to order in a petite Thai feast from her favourite place in the 16th and she’s fired up the TV in the grand salon (well, sort of) to watch the first two episodes of season three of Le Lotus Blanc.”
Monocle (March 2, 2025). Sunday. 2/3/2025. The Monocle Minute. Retrieved March 3, 2025 from https://monocle.com/minute/2025/03/02/.
“In the mid-19th century, the spread of the railways radically changed the relationship between humans, time and space. Within just a few decades, Europe, North America, Russia and India were covered in train tracks, and rail reduced travel times between booming cities by ten. With an almost absolute monopoly on land travel, it accompanied and symbolised the meteoric expansion of capitalism during the industrial revolution. To this day, rail lines structure the development and transformation of many regions of the world.”
Le Monde diplomatique. The return of rail. Monde diplomatique, English Edition. Retrieved March 3, 2025 from https://mondediplo.com/ebooks/rail.
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“On the beaches of Accra, the sea vomits up old clothes. The sand in Akuma Village is covered with a carpet of shoes and plastics entangled with shirts, shoelaces and pants. It’s just the tip of the iceberg of what is currently floating in the ocean. A few miles away on solid ground rises a series of multi-colored hills. This is no idyllic landscape, but rather, gigantic mountains of used clothing that has come from Europe, China and the United States. Some are on fire, emitting black toxic smoke from the combustion of synthetic fibers. It leaves the air thick, sour-smelling.”
Ana Carbajosa et al. (March 1, 2025). Where do the clothes go after we put them in a recycling bin? An 11-month investigation covering thousands of kilometers. El País. Retrieved March 3, 2025 from https://english.elpais.com/climate/2025-03-01/where-do-the-clothes-go-after-we-put-them-in-a-recycling-bin-an-11-month-investigation-covering-thousands-of-kilometers.html.
“The study highlights the tension between cultural preservation and digital accessibility. Fixed book prices in Germany, designed to protect cultural diversity by ensuring smaller publishers survive (Beck, 2004), may inadvertently slow the transition to digital formats. However, the authors note that e-books’ substitutability with physical books risks undermining the cultural value of print media, which is often tied to tactile and aesthetic experiences (Singer & Alexander, 2017). For instance, print books remain preferred for shared reading or leisure (Zhang & Kudva, 2013), suggesting cultural practices influence format preferences. The genre-specific findings—stronger substitution for fiction—align with leisure reading trends, where convenience drives digital adoption, whereas non-fiction readers may prioritize permanence (Colbjornsen, 2015). Thus, fixed prices might preserve cultural diversity (Beck, 2004; Colbjornsen, 2015).”
Pablo Markin (February 27, 2025). Digital Books, Product Substitution, and Market Regulation. Open Economics Blog. Retrieved March 3, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/13e66.
“In March 2024, a Brazilian senator traveled on a commercial flight to Washington, D.C. Marcos Pontes, a 61-year-old former astronaut, had become a central figure in the effort to regulate artificial intelligence in Brazil — where a draft bill had proposed serious restrictions on the developing technology. Confident, loquacious, and a former minister of science, technology and innovation, Pontes felt he was uniquely qualified among his colleagues to understand the complicated issues surrounding AI.”
Anup Kaphle. (February 24, 2025). Why one of the world’s major AI pioneers is betting big on Saudi Arabia. Rest of World. Retrieved March 3, 2025 from https://restofworld.org/2025/juergen-schmidhuber-ai-saudi-arabia-tech/.
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