Liz Moor
Biographic Data
| ID | 92061 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liz Moor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liz |
| FAMILY NAME | Moor |
| SIGNATURE | MOOR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5583-4457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Justifying inherited wealth: Between 'the bank of mum and dad' and the meritocratic ideal
How do people reconcile belief in meritocracy with the receipt of unearned economic gifts? Drawing on interviews with first time homeowners who had bought property with familial gifts or inheritances, we find that many downplay the intergenerational privilege associated with gifting by reporting extended family histories of working-class struggle, upward social mobility and meritocratic striving. Interviewees also draw boundaries between their ow…
Who, or what, is insurtech personalizing: Persons, prices and the historical classifications of risk
This paper examines the promises and pitfalls associated with Insurtech – the anticipated innovations in the insurance industry associated with social media marketing, artificial intelligence, big data analytics and more – and focuses in particular on the new methods of pricing and premium setting that are claimed to follow from the availability of self-tracking technologies and new volumes of customer data. Using the examples of telematics data …
Money and relationships online: Communication and Norm Formation in Women’s Discussions of Couple Resource Allocation
Research on intra‐household resource allocation practices has largely ignored the role of communication within but especially beyond the household. This article shows that discussions engaged in outside of the household shed light on intra‐household deliberation and also contribute to an understanding of how norms are formed and used in discussions and negotiations. Using data from the website Mumsnet, and grounding our analysis in a framework th…
Price and the person: Markets, Discrimination, and Personhood
This paper explores how pricing has historically been involved in the making up of persons and how the ability to 'personalize' price is reconfiguring the ability of markets to discriminate. We discuss a variety of contemporary pricing practices, and three types of personhood they produce: generic, protected, and transcontextual. While some contemporary developments in pricing draw on understandings of the person that are quite familiar, others a…
Money: Communicative Functions of Payment and Price
Money is rich in semiotic potential and its capacity to express social identity and collectivity is well established. This essay explores a range of communicative functions of money, focusing in particular on the ways in which payments and prices may serve as cultural signals. It asks how the communicative significance of money might change as a result of the introduction of new types of currency, payment systems and pricing techniques, and sugge…
On brutal culture
International audience
Spreadable media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
Henry Jenkins’ Spreadable Media (co-authored with Sam Ford and Joshua Green) sets out to examine the consequences of a more “participatory” media environment in a way that appeals to communication
The Materiality of Method: The Case of the Mass Observation Archive
The Mass Observation Archive presents numerous methodological issues for social researchers. The data are idiosyncratic, difficult to analyze, and the sample design is nonsystematic. Such issues seriously challenge conventional social research protocols. This article highlights a further characteristic of the archive: its unwieldy materiality. Focusing on the sensory experiences of the archive and its particular type of data, the article shows ho…
Beyond cultural intermediaries? A socio-technical perspective on the market for social interventions
Marketing has long been considered part of cultural intermediary activity, but still sits a little oddly alongside the ‘cultural’ TV producers and ‘quality’ journalists and critics originally used to typify the category. This article argues that such a tension is productive, and uses an underexplored aspect of marketing – social marketing – to pursue some more conceptual questions about the nature and usefulness of the term ‘cultural intermediari…
Making and Measuring Value: Comparison, Singularity and Agency in Brand Valuation Practice
This paper explores the use of three different forms of valuation and measurement by or on behalf of brands and branded organizations: financial brand valuation; brand equity measurement; and internal social or environmental evaluations. These systems, it is argued, are sites at which possible relationships between economic and other values are explored, and at which understandings of what is valuable emerge in tandem with the means for acknowled…
Design and Creativity: Policy, Management and Practice
Design and other creative industries not only shape our lives in numerous ways, providing ‘cultural’ goods such as films, music and magazines, but also shape the look and feel of everyday objects and spaces. The creative industries are also important economically; governments and businesses now make considerable efforts to manage creativity for a range of political and economic ends. Does the management of design conflict with traditional ideas o…
Branding Consultants as Cultural Intermediaries
Advertising agencies are frequently the focus of sociological studies investigating the ways in which commodities are imbued with meanings, and the impacts of these efforts on consumer activity. However, advertising agencies face increasing competition from other symbolic intermediaries, of which branding consultancies are some of the most successful. This paper explores the nature and significance of branding by focusing upon three key themes: f…
Fourth Worlds and Neo-Fordism: American Apparel and the Cultural Economy of Consumer Anxiety
This article examines the strategies of the ‘sweatshop-free’ clothing company American Apparel in the context of ongoing debates over the cultural turn and cultural economy. American Apparel’s key selling point is that it does not outsource: it manufactures in Los Angeles, pays ‘good’ wages and provides healthcare, yet the workers are not unionised and the migrant labour it depends upon is often temporary. These same employees are used in promoti…
The Rise of Brands
Brands and logos are all around us - from the clothes we wear and the objects we buy, to the advertisements which cover our cities and the celebrities created by the media. We regard the brand as a new phenomenon, something born with the consumer society, but branding was born with civilization, its earliest examples dating to the Roman Empire. Branding is now a growing industry, applied not only to commodities but to charities, cities, the world…
Sport and Commodification: A Reflection on Key Concepts
Studies of the impact of structural changes in sports organizations on the nature of fan cultures have been an important part of the sociology of sport in recent years, and such studies have come to rely on the concepts of class, commodification, and consumption. This paper suggests that although such concepts are indeed important, their contentiousness and complexity are not always acknowledged, and that the concepts may therefore acquire an ove…
The Buzz of Dressing: Commodity Culture, Fraternity, and Football Fandom
Research Article| April 01 2006 “The Buzz of Dressing”: Commodity Culture, Fraternity, and Football Fandom Liz Moor Liz Moor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (2): 327–347. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-105-2-327 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Liz Moor; “The Buzz of Dressing”: Commodity Culture, Fraternity, and Footba…
Price and the person: Markets, Discrimination, and Personhood
This paper explores how pricing has historically been involved in the making up of persons and how the ability to 'personalize' price is reconfiguring the ability of markets to discriminate. We discuss a variety of contemporary pricing practices, and three types of personhood they produce: generic, protected, and transcontextual. While some contemporary developments in pricing draw on understandings of the person that are quite familiar, others a…
Making and Measuring Value: Comparison, Singularity and Agency in Brand Valuation Practice
This paper explores the use of three different forms of valuation and measurement by or on behalf of brands and branded organizations: financial brand valuation; brand equity measurement; and internal social or environmental evaluations. These systems, it is argued, are sites at which possible relationships between economic and other values are explored, and at which understandings of what is valuable emerge in tandem with the means for acknowled…
Branding Consultants as Cultural Intermediaries
Advertising agencies are frequently the focus of sociological studies investigating the ways in which commodities are imbued with meanings, and the impacts of these efforts on consumer activity. However, advertising agencies face increasing competition from other symbolic intermediaries, of which branding consultancies are some of the most successful. This paper explores the nature and significance of branding by focusing upon three key themes: f…
Justifying inherited wealth: Between 'the bank of mum and dad' and the meritocratic ideal
How do people reconcile belief in meritocracy with the receipt of unearned economic gifts? Drawing on interviews with first time homeowners who had bought property with familial gifts or inheritances, we find that many downplay the intergenerational privilege associated with gifting by reporting extended family histories of working-class struggle, upward social mobility and meritocratic striving. Interviewees also draw boundaries between their ow…
Sport and Commodification: A Reflection on Key Concepts
Studies of the impact of structural changes in sports organizations on the nature of fan cultures have been an important part of the sociology of sport in recent years, and such studies have come to rely on the concepts of class, commodification, and consumption. This paper suggests that although such concepts are indeed important, their contentiousness and complexity are not always acknowledged, and that the concepts may therefore acquire an ove…
Who, or what, is insurtech personalizing: Persons, prices and the historical classifications of risk
This paper examines the promises and pitfalls associated with Insurtech – the anticipated innovations in the insurance industry associated with social media marketing, artificial intelligence, big data analytics and more – and focuses in particular on the new methods of pricing and premium setting that are claimed to follow from the availability of self-tracking technologies and new volumes of customer data. Using the examples of telematics data …
Beyond cultural intermediaries? A socio-technical perspective on the market for social interventions
Marketing has long been considered part of cultural intermediary activity, but still sits a little oddly alongside the ‘cultural’ TV producers and ‘quality’ journalists and critics originally used to typify the category. This article argues that such a tension is productive, and uses an underexplored aspect of marketing – social marketing – to pursue some more conceptual questions about the nature and usefulness of the term ‘cultural intermediari…
Money and relationships online: Communication and Norm Formation in Women’s Discussions of Couple Resource Allocation
Research on intra‐household resource allocation practices has largely ignored the role of communication within but especially beyond the household. This article shows that discussions engaged in outside of the household shed light on intra‐household deliberation and also contribute to an understanding of how norms are formed and used in discussions and negotiations. Using data from the website Mumsnet, and grounding our analysis in a framework th…
Money: Communicative Functions of Payment and Price
Money is rich in semiotic potential and its capacity to express social identity and collectivity is well established. This essay explores a range of communicative functions of money, focusing in particular on the ways in which payments and prices may serve as cultural signals. It asks how the communicative significance of money might change as a result of the introduction of new types of currency, payment systems and pricing techniques, and sugge…
The Materiality of Method: The Case of the Mass Observation Archive
The Mass Observation Archive presents numerous methodological issues for social researchers. The data are idiosyncratic, difficult to analyze, and the sample design is nonsystematic. Such issues seriously challenge conventional social research protocols. This article highlights a further characteristic of the archive: its unwieldy materiality. Focusing on the sensory experiences of the archive and its particular type of data, the article shows ho…
Fourth Worlds and Neo-Fordism: American Apparel and the Cultural Economy of Consumer Anxiety
This article examines the strategies of the ‘sweatshop-free’ clothing company American Apparel in the context of ongoing debates over the cultural turn and cultural economy. American Apparel’s key selling point is that it does not outsource: it manufactures in Los Angeles, pays ‘good’ wages and provides healthcare, yet the workers are not unionised and the migrant labour it depends upon is often temporary. These same employees are used in promoti…
The Buzz of Dressing: Commodity Culture, Fraternity, and Football Fandom
Research Article| April 01 2006 “The Buzz of Dressing”: Commodity Culture, Fraternity, and Football Fandom Liz Moor Liz Moor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (2): 327–347. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-105-2-327 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Liz Moor; “The Buzz of Dressing”: Commodity Culture, Fraternity, and Footba…
On brutal culture
International audience
The Buzz of Dressing: Commodity Culture, Fraternity, and Football Fandom
Research Article| April 01 2006 “The Buzz of Dressing”: Commodity Culture, Fraternity, and Football Fandom Liz Moor Liz Moor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (2): 327–347. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-105-2-327 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Liz Moor; “The Buzz of Dressing”: Commodity Culture, Fraternity, and Footba…
The Rise of Brands
Brands and logos are all around us - from the clothes we wear and the objects we buy, to the advertisements which cover our cities and the celebrities created by the media. We regard the brand as a new phenomenon, something born with the consumer society, but branding was born with civilization, its earliest examples dating to the Roman Empire. Branding is now a growing industry, applied not only to commodities but to charities, cities, the world…
Sport and Commodification: A Reflection on Key Concepts
Studies of the impact of structural changes in sports organizations on the nature of fan cultures have been an important part of the sociology of sport in recent years, and such studies have come to rely on the concepts of class, commodification, and consumption. This paper suggests that although such concepts are indeed important, their contentiousness and complexity are not always acknowledged, and that the concepts may therefore acquire an ove…
Branding Consultants as Cultural Intermediaries
Advertising agencies are frequently the focus of sociological studies investigating the ways in which commodities are imbued with meanings, and the impacts of these efforts on consumer activity. However, advertising agencies face increasing competition from other symbolic intermediaries, of which branding consultancies are some of the most successful. This paper explores the nature and significance of branding by focusing upon three key themes: f…
Fourth Worlds and Neo-Fordism: American Apparel and the Cultural Economy of Consumer Anxiety
This article examines the strategies of the ‘sweatshop-free’ clothing company American Apparel in the context of ongoing debates over the cultural turn and cultural economy. American Apparel’s key selling point is that it does not outsource: it manufactures in Los Angeles, pays ‘good’ wages and provides healthcare, yet the workers are not unionised and the migrant labour it depends upon is often temporary. These same employees are used in promoti…
Design and Creativity: Policy, Management and Practice
Design and other creative industries not only shape our lives in numerous ways, providing ‘cultural’ goods such as films, music and magazines, but also shape the look and feel of everyday objects and spaces. The creative industries are also important economically; governments and businesses now make considerable efforts to manage creativity for a range of political and economic ends. Does the management of design conflict with traditional ideas o…
Making and Measuring Value: Comparison, Singularity and Agency in Brand Valuation Practice
This paper explores the use of three different forms of valuation and measurement by or on behalf of brands and branded organizations: financial brand valuation; brand equity measurement; and internal social or environmental evaluations. These systems, it is argued, are sites at which possible relationships between economic and other values are explored, and at which understandings of what is valuable emerge in tandem with the means for acknowled…
Beyond cultural intermediaries? A socio-technical perspective on the market for social interventions
Marketing has long been considered part of cultural intermediary activity, but still sits a little oddly alongside the ‘cultural’ TV producers and ‘quality’ journalists and critics originally used to typify the category. This article argues that such a tension is productive, and uses an underexplored aspect of marketing – social marketing – to pursue some more conceptual questions about the nature and usefulness of the term ‘cultural intermediari…
The Materiality of Method: The Case of the Mass Observation Archive
The Mass Observation Archive presents numerous methodological issues for social researchers. The data are idiosyncratic, difficult to analyze, and the sample design is nonsystematic. Such issues seriously challenge conventional social research protocols. This article highlights a further characteristic of the archive: its unwieldy materiality. Focusing on the sensory experiences of the archive and its particular type of data, the article shows ho…
On brutal culture
International audience
Spreadable media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
Henry Jenkins’ Spreadable Media (co-authored with Sam Ford and Joshua Green) sets out to examine the consequences of a more “participatory” media environment in a way that appeals to communication
Who, or what, is insurtech personalizing: Persons, prices and the historical classifications of risk
This paper examines the promises and pitfalls associated with Insurtech – the anticipated innovations in the insurance industry associated with social media marketing, artificial intelligence, big data analytics and more – and focuses in particular on the new methods of pricing and premium setting that are claimed to follow from the availability of self-tracking technologies and new volumes of customer data. Using the examples of telematics data …
Money and relationships online: Communication and Norm Formation in Women’s Discussions of Couple Resource Allocation
Research on intra‐household resource allocation practices has largely ignored the role of communication within but especially beyond the household. This article shows that discussions engaged in outside of the household shed light on intra‐household deliberation and also contribute to an understanding of how norms are formed and used in discussions and negotiations. Using data from the website Mumsnet, and grounding our analysis in a framework th…
Price and the person: Markets, Discrimination, and Personhood
This paper explores how pricing has historically been involved in the making up of persons and how the ability to 'personalize' price is reconfiguring the ability of markets to discriminate. We discuss a variety of contemporary pricing practices, and three types of personhood they produce: generic, protected, and transcontextual. While some contemporary developments in pricing draw on understandings of the person that are quite familiar, others a…
Money: Communicative Functions of Payment and Price
Money is rich in semiotic potential and its capacity to express social identity and collectivity is well established. This essay explores a range of communicative functions of money, focusing in particular on the ways in which payments and prices may serve as cultural signals. It asks how the communicative significance of money might change as a result of the introduction of new types of currency, payment systems and pricing techniques, and sugge…
Justifying inherited wealth: Between 'the bank of mum and dad' and the meritocratic ideal
How do people reconcile belief in meritocracy with the receipt of unearned economic gifts? Drawing on interviews with first time homeowners who had bought property with familial gifts or inheritances, we find that many downplay the intergenerational privilege associated with gifting by reporting extended family histories of working-class struggle, upward social mobility and meritocratic striving. Interviewees also draw boundaries between their ow…
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