Enshittification in 3 acts with the cure

As mentioned recently ( here ), "enshittification" is a concept created by Cory Doctorow (2023, 2025), Canadian-British author, ac...

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The enshittification of education

Successive governments in New Zealand - and probably world-wide - have failed to adequately invest in education. The training and education ...

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The parasocial experience

In watching a conference presentation from cardiology surgeon and stand up comedian, Dr Rohin Francis, he mentioned a term new to me: that o...

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The social licence, part 2

In a previous post ( here ), we looked at what the social licence to operate, or SLO, is, but to briefly recap, "the ongoing acceptance...

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The social licence, part 1

Rather like a psychological contract (read more on that here) , the "social licence to operate", or SLO, is what society gives to ...

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Dinner table social construction

This year I had a kōrero with my students about how we are socially constructed within our family environments, potentially providing us ben...

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Avoiding the anxiety zone

The term 'status' refers to our position in society, or our value to society (de Botton, 2005). That status might spring from a lega...

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Savickas Career Construction Theory

In taking a holistic, self-aware, and life-long contextual approach to career development, the career construction theory, or CCT (Savickas,...

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The social sciences

It is not often that we really step back and think about our own fields, and where those fields fit in relation to everything else. I was ...

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What social class am I?

Data from the Great British Class Survey (Savage et al., 2013) Recently I explored the precariat, a marginalised group of people in our ...

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A tip for career women

Recently I read an article by Ashley Stahl, on what she has observed tends to prevent women advancing within their careers. Ashley says...

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