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Stephen Papson
Researcher at St. Lawrence University
Publications - 20
Citations - 682
Stephen Papson is an academic researcher from St. Lawrence University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Capital (economics) & Critical theory. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 20 publications receiving 669 citations.
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Sign wars : the cluttered landscape of advertising
Robert Goldman,Stephen Papson +1 more
TL;DR: The authors show how corporate symbols or signs vie for attention and market share by appropriating -and quickly abandoning - diverse elements of culture to differentiate products that may in themselves be virtually indistinguishable.
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Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh
Robert Goldman,Stephen Papson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the Swoosh is everywhere Just Metacommunicate It Nike and the Construction of a Celebrity Democracy Reflexivity and Irreverence Alienation, hope and Transcendence Determinism or determination? Transcending Difference? Representing Women in Nike's World There are Many Paths to Heaven "Just Do It," but Not on "My Planet"
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Capital's brandscapes
Robert Goldman,Stephen Papson +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored the contradictory cultural tendencies at play in the political economy of corporate brand values and found that brand values often serve mutually contradictory goals of capital accumulation and legitimation, and that additional contradictions evolve out of a branding process that indiscriminately mines culture for the purpose of boosting brand values.
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Spuriousness and tourism: Politics of Two Canadian Provincial Government
TL;DR: Papson, Stephen, and MacCannell as discussed by the authors explored the process by which socio-cultural reality takes on the quality of spuriousness, and argued that tourist marketing, routing and zoning, creating community events, and organizing historical sites are a form imposing a layer of reality over the everyday which is spurious.