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’Shift’ Happens: What Our Pr Students Are Willing To Do When No One Is Watching, Mathew A. Cabot
’Shift’ Happens: What Our Pr Students Are Willing To Do When No One Is Watching, Mathew A. Cabot
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The Handmade Tale: Cassette-Tapes, Authorship, And The Privatization Of The Pacific Northwest Independent Music Scene, Kathleen F. Mcconnell
The Handmade Tale: Cassette-Tapes, Authorship, And The Privatization Of The Pacific Northwest Independent Music Scene, Kathleen F. Mcconnell
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‘Flex Your Power’: Energy Crises And The Shifting Rhetoric Of The Grid, Anne Marie Todd, A. Wood
‘Flex Your Power’: Energy Crises And The Shifting Rhetoric Of The Grid, Anne Marie Todd, A. Wood
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In response to widespread power outages, rolling blackouts, and ubiquitous energy debates, this essay considers our relation to energy and the grid that produces it. First, we investigate California's multimedia Flex Your Power campaign, which defines consumers as nodes of the grid to emphasize their responsibility to maintain a stable energy supply. Second, we examine state and national responses to the 2003 blackout in the Northeastern United States, attending to three strategies through which grid administrators sought to impose order, enact hierarchy, and deindividuate power. We propose that the grid invokes personalization at the "local" level and abstraction at the …