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When Dolce & Gabbana sent drones carrying handbags down a Milan runway in 2018 reviews were mixed but the move was largely seen as a fusion of tech and the fashion industries.
Just a few months later a fashion show in Saudi Arabia which used drones to float clothes on the catwalk became a viral sensation for all the wrong reasons and was labelled bizarre. Two QUT researchers say the ghost-like effect was uncanny because one of the central tenets of fashion theory is that without a body, fashion does not exist.
Fashion senior lecturer Dr Tiziana Ferrero-Regis and architecture senior lecturer Marissa Lindquist have co-edited a new book Staging Fashion: The fashion show and its spaces (Bloomsbury).
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New research by the University of Kent and the SWPS University has discovered that national narcissists are more likely to support greenwashing (misleading information about the environmental benefits of a product, a company or a policy) in order to improve their nation s public image.
Findings show that while national narcissists are not likely to support genuine pro-environmental campaigns, they are ready to support political greenwashing campaigns. In business greenwashing decreases consumers trust and undermines both the image and the profits of the companies that use this strategy. In the realms of politics, it may garner support from those whose strong national attachment is rooted in feelings of underappreciation and belief in their nation s unrecognised greatness.
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Workplace communication often took a back seat this past year, as employees and employers rushed to work remotely, struggled with technology barriers and adjusted to physical distancing. But the pandemic has resulted in valuable lessons for communicating on the job, according to a Baylor University study.
During the onset of COVID-19 along with accompanying layoffs and a recession there likely has never been a moment with such demand for ethical listening to employees, said lead author Marlene S. Neill, Ph.D., associate professor of journalism, public relations and new media at Baylor. Ethical listening was defined by one communication manager as listening with an open mind and being able to hear the good, the bad and the ugly. Strategic listening is then taking the good and the bad and the ugly and knowing how to use the information.
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Obesity rates have increased dramatically in developed countries over the past 40 years and many people have assumed that food marketing is at least in part to blame. But are people with obesity really more susceptible to food marketing? And if they are, is that a permanent predisposition, or can it change over time?
According to a new study by UBC Sauder School of Business Assistant Professor Dr. Yann Cornil (he/him/his) and French researchers, people with obesity do tend to be more responsive to food marketing but when their weight drops significantly, so does their responsiveness to marketing.