Minh-Ha T. Pham

Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Social Media's Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property

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Produktbeschreibung

Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the practice of social media users monitoring the fashion market for the appearance of fake knock-off fashion, design theft, and plagiarism, showing how it is critically important to the development of global fashion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018612
• ISBN-10: 1478018615
• Artikelnr.: 62817056

Autorenporträt

Minh-Ha T. Pham is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Media Studies at the Pratt Institute and author of Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. “Share This with Your Friends”: Crowdsourcing IP Regulation 
1
1. Regulating Fashion IP, Regulating Difference  27
2. The Asian Fashion Copycat  53
3. How Thai Social Media Users Made Balenciaga Pay for Copying the Sampeng
Bag  77
4. “Ppl Knocking Each Other off Lol”: Diet Prada’s Politics of Refusal  99
Epilogue. Why We Can't Have Nice Things  125
Notes  131
Bibliography 147
Index  165