When does photojournalism become exploitive? At Granta, a podcast examining the ethics of photojournalism.
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A Cleaner List
As promised, Amazon has removed the free ebooks from its Kindle bestseller list and now shows two lists: freebies and books you actually have to pay for.
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Socioeconomic Diversity Matters
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“Binders Full of Women”
Mitt Romney’s debate remark about where he finds women when he needs to fill some jobs has inspired hundreds of witty product reviewers on Amazon.
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Marksonalia
Millions contributor Tyler Malone has created a Tumblr account dedicated to the marginalia of David Markson, whose novel Wittgenstein’s Mistress was famously passed up by 54 publishers before becoming a critical darling.
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Tragicomic
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One Book, Two Covers
“What do these two books have in common?…Open each cover and you will only find similarities: They are the same book.” For The Globe and Mail, our own Claire Cameron writes about one book being marketed with two different covers and titles to appeal to different audiences. Pair with: an essay about book covers featuring headless, backless women, and another on the beauty of typewritten book covers.
#ReadMoreWomen
We encourage you to join Electric Literature’s #ReadMoreWomen campaign. Their aim is to “challenge you to increase your consumption of women and nonbinary authors, and tweet at @ElectricLit with the hashtag #readmorewomen to tell us what you’re reading or recommend a book.” Sounds good to us!
…the second one person or entity benefits in a material way from the suffering of another. You can cry foul, tell me how ‘the truth needs to be seen’, etc… but the bottom line is: if a career or circulation is bumped upwards by someone who is being decidedly bumped downward, you’ve created a space where the word exploitive exceeds all others in the dictionary as the most accurate definition of the situation.
Its frequently exploitative. Like when people refuse to put the camera down and actually be human beings…which seems to be quite frequently.