Comments on: ‘Life at the Googleplex’: Corporate Culture, Transparency, and Propaganda http://savageminds.org/2010/01/15/life-at-the-googleplex-corporate-culture-transparency-and-propaganda/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Sat, 26 May 2012 03:33:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jessica Smith http://savageminds.org/2010/01/15/life-at-the-googleplex-corporate-culture-transparency-and-propaganda/comment-page-1/#comment-627775 Jessica Smith Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:13:27 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=3084#comment-627775 To add to Paul's comment, you will find anthropologists who study how corporations create public personae by looking at the emerging literature on corporate practice, especially corporate social responsibility. There are also some business scholars who are helpful on these questions. Along those lines, anthropologists interested in audit culture might help you contextualize the 'transparency' issue. Good places to start with these sorts of questions would be work by Peter Benson and Marina Welker, as well as Marilyn Strathern's edited collection on audit cultures. To add to Paul’s comment, you will find anthropologists who study how corporations create public personae by looking at the emerging literature on corporate practice, especially corporate social responsibility. There are also some business scholars who are helpful on these questions. Along those lines, anthropologists interested in audit culture might help you contextualize the ‘transparency’ issue. Good places to start with these sorts of questions would be work by Peter Benson and Marina Welker, as well as Marilyn Strathern’s edited collection on audit cultures.

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]]> By: Paul Dourish http://savageminds.org/2010/01/15/life-at-the-googleplex-corporate-culture-transparency-and-propaganda/comment-page-1/#comment-627753 Paul Dourish Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:48:08 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=3084#comment-627753 Re: "But as far as I am aware, nobody has thought to look at how governments, corporations, and other institutions self-visualize a public persona." This is exactly what my colleague Liz Losh does in her recent MIT Press book "virtualpolitik" (and on her blog of the same name), with a particular emphasis on governments but much relevance for corporations too. Re: “But as far as I am aware, nobody has thought to look at how governments, corporations, and other institutions self-visualize a public persona.”

This is exactly what my colleague Liz Losh does in her recent MIT Press book “virtualpolitik” (and on her blog of the same name), with a particular emphasis on governments but much relevance for corporations too.

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