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Note: On this blog, sometimes we’ll post more in-depth thinking, and sometimes we’ll just take note of relevant news, events, readings and such. This is the first of that second kind of post. Leroy...
View ArticleOn Boycotts and Buycotts: in our PDF readers
Here is a selection from what some of us are reading this week. Thoughts? Michele Micheletti (2002). Consumer Choice as Political Participation. Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. 105 (3). Dietlind Stolle...
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Matea Gold from the LA Times covers the controversy among feminists surrounding The Daily Show’s newest hire, Olivia Munn, the first female correspondent in seven years. “Pictures, videos and slogans...
View ArticleGhoulish ATMs, It’s a Wonderful Bank, and Bloody Valentines: Personal Finance...
On April 5, 2010, President Obama issued a proclamation (PDF) declaring April “National Financial Literacy Month.” It was a call for collective agency and responsibility, positioning the “recent...
View ArticleThe Visual Culture of the Occupation: Month One and Counting
(Photo: Ed Schipel) Dr. Alison Trope, Clinical Associate Professor, USC Annenberg Lana Swartz, PhD Student, USC Annenberg Since September 17, the Occupy Wall Street movement has produced an...
View ArticleHappy Financial Literacy Month!
by Liana Gamber Thompson and Lana Swartz April is National Financial Literacy month. Although it may seem slightly outside the purview of a civic engagement research group like Civic Paths, between the...
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