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Unsticking Stuck Culture
Alex Greifeld, pp. 55-64
A Field Guide to Culturally Relevant Memes
Edmond Lau, pp. 86-95
Good Little Consumers: How Brands are Child Innocence into Commerce Influence
Alicia Esposito, pp. 96-107
Kobold to Cobalt: The Goblin that Shaped Medicine and Technology as We Know It
Janelle Carlson, pp. 108-121
Going Offline: The Key to Building Community in the Digital Age?
Amanda Claypool, pp. 184-195
[1] Yearnposting is a new kind of wellness, Michelle Santiago Cortés
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[2] Most Americans Are Lonely, And Our Workplace Culture May Not Be Helping, Elena Renken
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[3] Why are so many more young people living with their parents? Gen Z on their struggle to move out, Maggie Cole
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[4] Always Beta: Memetic Branding in the Digital Age, Charl Laubscher (Config 2022).
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[5] Meet CARLY, Phillip Jackson
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[6] Culture is Stuck, Paul Skallas
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[7] The Evolution of Home Sewing: 1958 and Today, Gertie's Blog for Better Sewing
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[1] Dawkins, R. (1976). The Selfish Gene(p. 192). Oxford University Press.
[2] Always Beta: Memetic Branding in the Digital Age, Charl Laubscher
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[3] Brat summer felt like relief, like freedom. Pity it was killed, as many good things are, by a bank, Madeline Gray
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[4] Enter the Matrix: Brand co-creation and meme culture, Eugine Healey
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[1] iPad Kids Are Getting Out of Hand, Eloise Hendy for Vice
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[2] The Impact of Social Media and Technology on Gen Alpha, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
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[3] What Made the Stanley-Starbucks Collab Go Viral? The Psychology of Scarcity, Alicia Esposito for Retail TouchPoints
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[4] “Grooming” Children to be Good Little Consumers, Phillip Jackson for The Senses by Future Commerce
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[5] Inside the TikTok Sephora Kids Craze, The Examined on YouTube
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[6] Zuru’s Mini Brands continues to dominate miniature space, from Toy World
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[7] Mini Brands, Zuru Toys
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[8] **Unboxing NEW Mini Verse Target series! 🎯🎯, mycraftyside on YouTube
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See also: “Target Series”, r/miniverse_makeitmini on Reddit
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[9] Total Eclipse of the Cart, The Future Commerce Podcast
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[10] A History of Baby Showers, Medical Travel
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[11] Unpacking the Nap Dress, Anne Helen Petersen for Culture Study
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[12] The expensive, unrealistic, and extremely white world of “momfluencers”, Anna North for Vox Media
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[13] “Sharenting” and Child Influencers, Kaitlin Tiches for Digital Wellness Lab
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[14] Top 30 Kid Influencers of 2024, Quinn Schwartz for Grin
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[15] [16] Consumer Analysis Report: Inside the Mind of Gen Alpha, Retail TouchPoints
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[1] Trolls, Weird and Wild Creatures Wiki
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[2] When Fairies Attack: Irish and Celtic myths and legends, Irish folklore and Irish fairy tales tales of Ireland, Emerald Isle
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[3] Ashliman, D. L. 2006. “Kobold”. Fairy Lore: A Handbook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 91–92.
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[4] Kantian Deontology, Joseph Kranak for Rebus Community
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[5] Carlson. Janelle. 2019. The Unknown Losses: Interview One: Moab
[6] Cobalt, Encyclopedia Britannica
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[7] Gusenius, E.M., 1967. “Beginnings of Greatness in Swedish Chemistry: Georg Brandt,(1694-1768).” Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (1903-), 70(4), 413-425.
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[8] Cobalt, Encyclopedia Iranica
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[9] Van Dyk, J., Battista, J.J. and Almond, P.R., 2020. “A retrospective of cobalt-60 radiation therapy: ‘the atom bomb that saves lives’.” Medical Physics International Journal, Special Issue, History of Medical Physics, 4.
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[10] Canada Cobalt Therapy Stamp
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[11] Profiling the six largest cobalt reserves in the world by country, NS Energy
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[12] Cobalt Facts, Government of Canada
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[13] Van Dyk, J., Battista, J.J. and Almond, P.R., 2020. “A retrospective of cobalt-60 radiation therapy: ‘the atom bomb that saves lives’.” Medical Physics International Journal, Special Issue, History of Medical Physics, 4.
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[14] Cobalt 60, Science Direct
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[15] BU-205: Types of Lithium-ion, Battery University
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[16] 7 Uses of Cobalt You Mightn't Know, Advanced Refractory Metals Blog
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[17] [18] Share of global copper produced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2016 to 2022, Statista
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[19] The "Rare Minerals "of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: submitted by the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
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[20] Conrad, J. and Beirne, C., 1925. Heart of Darkness
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[21] Kinzer, S., 2007. Overthrow: America’s century of regime change from Hawaii to Iraq. Macmillan
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[22] Overview of corruption and anti-corruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Marie Chêne, Anti-Corruption Resource Centre
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[23] Rustad, S.A., Østby, G. and Nordås, R., 2016. Artisanal mining, conflict, and sexual violence in Eastern DRC. The Extractive Industries and Society, 3(2), pp.475-484.
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[24] Why Cobalt Mining in the DRC Needs Urgent Attention, John Campbell for Council on Foreign Relations
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[25] World Vision. 2013. Child miners speak: Key Findings on Children and Artisanal Mining in Kambove DRC. Avenue des Etoiles, Kinshasa — Gombe. Democratic Republic of Congo. 10
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[26] Nieuwenkamp, Roel. “Smartphones are child’s play, but what about the child labour?.” OECD Yearbook 2018. (2017).
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[27] Demand for Congo’s cobalt is on the rise: So is the scrutiny of mining practices, Sarah Katz-Lavigne for The Washington Post
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[28] Kimberly Process
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[29] Next-generation batteries could go organic, cobalt-free for long-lasting power, The American Chemical Society (ACS)
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[30] [31] Farjana, S.H., Huda, N. and Mahmud, M.P., 2019. Life cycle assessment of cobalt extraction process process. Journal of Sustainable Mining, 18(3), pp.150-161.150.
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[32] MacLaren, Archibald. 1857. “The Kobold”. The Fairy Family: A Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Mythology of Europe. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. 223–233.
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[1] Screen Time Statistics: Average Screen Time by Country, Rebecca Moody for Comparitech
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[2] #Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement, Rachel Monroe for The New Yorker
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[3] How (And Why) This Man Lived In His Car For Over A Year, Ryan Bergara for BuzzFeed
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[4] Van conversion businesses can’t keep up with #vanlife demand, Moira Ritter for CNN Business
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[5] Blue Zone, Wikipedia
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[6] Moai—This Tradition is Why Okinawan People Live Longer, Better, Aislinn Kotifani for BlueZones.com
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[7] Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation, US Surgeon General, 2023
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[8] Religious Disaffiliation and Loneliness, Survey Center on American Life
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