Bibliograph

Why we can't have nice things, social media's influence on fashion, ethics, and property, Minh-Ha T. Pham

Type

Label

Why we can't have nice things, social media's influence on fashion, ethics, and property, Minh-Ha T. Pham

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Why we can't have nice things

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1268256336

Responsibility statement

Minh-Ha T. Pham

Sub title

social media's influence on fashion, ethics, and property

Summary

"In Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Minh-Ha T. Pham provides a critical discussion of social media's unacknowledged importance to the development of global fashion. In particular, Pham examines the informal and extralegal work social media users do to monitor and regulate the fashion market against an array of "fake" fashion. Practices of "crowdsourced IP regulation" are undertaken in the name of ethical fashion but as Why We Can't Have Nice Things demonstrates, too often, this work relies on and reinforces racist and neocolonial norms, stereotypes, and capitalist logics about what counts as creativity and what counts as copying. The book explains how and why social media is now pivotal to the production and unequal distribution of fashion ethics, property, and value"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Regulating fashion IP, regulating difference -- The Asian fashion copycat -- How Thai social media users made Balenciaga pay for copying the Sampeng bag -- "Ppl knocking each other off Lol" or, Diet Prada's politics of refusal

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