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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Subcultural capital"”.
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Facebook Idio-Culture: How Personalisation Puts the Me in Social Media
… their taste as an outward display of identity or subcultural capital (Thornton 2006) has altered, now that every aspect of life can be advertised on Facebook, Twitter and other such websites. With the rise of technologies such as ‘online recommenders’ this research evaluates whether the new …
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Still Life and Death Metal: Painting the Battle Jacket
… jackets are significant in the expression of subcultural identity for those that wear them, and constitute a global phenomenon dating back at least to the 1970s. The art practice juxtaposes and re-contextualises cultural artefacts in order to explore the narratives and traditions that they are …
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Demythologizing the sixties; reappraising the British groupie and her relationship to feminism, 1965-1974
… and gender established the hegemonic currency of subcultural capital (Thornton, 1995) in the underground field, to position and regulate which groupies were able to advance their social status by trading their sexual capital (Green A. I. , 2011) and which were not.