Adulting While Poor

Chen, Victor Tan

doi:10.1353/dss.2018.0075

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“…For young people, YOLO communicated a careless disregard for behavioral consequences. But now those very same young people have matured into adulthood and are experiencing YOLO’s opposite: ‘Adulting’ behavior characteristic of adulthood (such as saving for retirement, parenting, paying utility bills, and home ownership) (Brown, 2013; Chen, 2018). The word ‘adulting’ now graces the pages of Merriam-Webster and the Cambridge English Dictionary .…”

Section: From Denial To Nihilmentioning

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Precarity, nihilism, and grace

Silvestri

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article explores the ambient affect of contemporary nihilism through a conjunctural analysis of key image macros from the ‘nihilist meme’ stash. Drawing from Berlant’s theory of cruel optimism, the author identifies an active form of nihilism unique to the present moment that suggests a loosening of traditional American cruel attachments to open new possibilities for what it means to live a good life.

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Section: From Denial To Nihilmentioning

confidence: 99%

Precarity, nihilism, and grace

Silvestri

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Designing a Web3 Ecosystem to Facilitate a Participatory Economy for the Movie and Series Industry

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Ibrus

Milligan

2023

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The audiovisual media content (AMC) industry, focused on film and television drama production, is confronted with a broken business model due to the dominance of centralized streaming platforms. The top platforms dominate global distribution but only offer slices of produced and heritage content. In addition, they compete with the AMC industry by producing a majority of content distributed. This leaves fewer gatekeepers deciding on the content to be distributed and less diverse content easily accessible to audiences Consequently, audiences are compelled to engage in pirating movies despite a willingness to pay. Recent blockchain innovations towards the so-called Web3 promise to restore this broken business model by re-establishing direct contact between the producers of films and their audiences. The benefits of networks (peer-to-peer or community based) in combination with Web3 follow the principle of decentralized disintermediation while comprising elements such as FIAT to crypto-payment mechanisms, self-sovereign identity authentication, blockchain oracles, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), and so on. A gap exists with regard to methodological designs of Web3 decentralized applications (DApp) and their ecosystems for restoring a viable AMC business model that not only eliminates the need for piracy activities but even the need for platforms. The DApp architecture designs for the film- and media industry ecosystem creation in this paper allow, on the one hand, for a legal compliance check ahead of a costly deployment. On the other hand, the DApp designs of this paper also allow for a tailored blockchain technology stack development. Ultimately, this research is a continuation of an earlier whitepaper to establish a participatory economy in the film industry from peer-to-peer streaming.

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Adulting While Poor

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Precarity, nihilism, and grace

Precarity, nihilism, and grace

Designing a Web3 Ecosystem to Facilitate a Participatory Economy for the Movie and Series Industry

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