Connected Consumption

By Courtney Santos - March 8, 2013 - 3:41pm
Compiled by Courtney Santos and Amanda Wortman The 2013 Digital Media and Learning Conference (DML2013) at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers in Chicago, IL on March 14-16, 2013 offers many opportunities to connect with researchers, including members of the Connected Learning Research Network, and to make inquiries into the role of connected learning in... read more
By Juliet Schor - August 8, 2012 - 10:40am
With under 100 days to go until the November election in the US, we can expect to hear a lot more about jobs and employment. Both candidates claim they will "create jobs" but neither will go beyond anodyne discussions of how to get the economy growing faster.. They're both devotees of the trickle down approach to employment – trying to expand production as rapidly as... read more
By Juliet Schor - February 2, 2012 - 12:33pm
I’m just back from four days of workshops and public lectures in London, Paris and Brussels. There is tremendous interest in issues of worktime there. The London event was organized by the new economics foundation (nef), and a research center at the London School of Economics (CASE). In 2010, nef did a very popular report called 21 hours calling for a 21 hour... read more