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The visual vaccine debate on Twitter: A social network analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Milani, E., Weitkamp, E., & Webb, P. (2020). The visual vaccine debate on Twitter: A social network analysis. Media and Communication, 8(2), 364-375. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.2847

Pro- and anti-vaccination users use social media outlets, such as Twitter, to join conversations about vaccines, disseminate information or misinformation about immunization, and advocate in favour or against vaccinations. These users not only share... Read More about The visual vaccine debate on Twitter: A social network analysis.

“Utopian Punk”: The Concept of the Utopian in the Creative Practice of Björk (2010)
Journal Article
Webb, P., & Lynch, J. (2010). “Utopian Punk”: The Concept of the Utopian in the Creative Practice of Björk. Utopian Studies, 21(2), 313 - 330. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.21.2.0313

ABSTRACT This article is an attempt to firstly locate and situate the creative practice of Björk in the cultural and musical milieu of late 1970s, early 1980s punk and post-punk world. It traces the impacts, relevancies and typifications that were a... Read More about “Utopian Punk”: The Concept of the Utopian in the Creative Practice of Björk.

Infected by the seed of post-industrial punk bohemia: Nick Cave and the Milieu of the 1980s underground (2008)
Journal Article
Webb, P. M. (2008). Infected by the seed of post-industrial punk bohemia: Nick Cave and the Milieu of the 1980s underground. Popular Music History, 3(2), 103-122. https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v3i2.103

This article uses the concepts of cultural milieu and music genre to explore the work of Nick Cave in the 1980s and later. Milieu theory is derived from the work of phenomenologists Alfred Schutz and Jorg Durschmitt. The article analyses the transgre... Read More about Infected by the seed of post-industrial punk bohemia: Nick Cave and the Milieu of the 1980s underground.

Accounting for e-commerce: Abstractions, virtualism and the cultural circuit of capital (2005)
Journal Article
French, S., Webb, P., Thrift, N., Crewe, L., & Leyshon, A. (2005). Accounting for e-commerce: Abstractions, virtualism and the cultural circuit of capital. Economy and Society, 34(3), 428-450. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085140500112160

This paper considers the phenomenon of e-commerce as an achievement of serial acts of representation and re-representation. Drawing upon the concepts of virtualism and the cultural circuit of capital, we attempt to demonstrate the material consequenc... Read More about Accounting for e-commerce: Abstractions, virtualism and the cultural circuit of capital.