Value Broker Research Articles

Knowledge broker, trust broker, value broker: The roles of the Science Media Center during the COVID-19 pandemic

In the communicative figuration of science communication (Hepp & Hasebrink, 2017), a variety of actors, practices and orientations contribute to the mediation of scientific knowledge and expertise. By curating scientific content for a journalistic audience, Science Media Centers (SMCs) can take up a powerful intermediary position. In this paper, we apply a figurational framework to understand what roles SMCs can take in science communication. Building on ethnographic material gathered during January and October 2020, we analyze through which practices, communicative relations, mission and normative assumptions SMC Germany has shaped its position in science communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. Doing so, we follow the “cultural turn” in science communication research. Building on the concept of brokerage, we conclude that SMC Germany has taken on roles as a knowledge broker by providing journalists with curated scientific content, a trust broker by facilitating relationships between journalists and scientists, and a value broker by promoting the status of scientific expertise in the social knowledge order.

Visualising Commodity, Consuming Visual Commodities: the Shakespearean Stage

In this account of early modern prostitution and Shakespeare’s theatre, with its direct representation of brothel activities, I reconsider the extensively discussed idea of women as “commodity”, meaning a symbol of abjection to consider the early modern prostitute’s role as a value broker. I claim that prostitutes commanded the potential to transfer, perturb, and shape social norms more than they have been given credit for and that Shakespeare’s plays’ reworkings of the notion of female characters as exchange goods could have the effect of making another voice heard—that of agency. I examine “commodity” on Shakespeare’s stage, in particular representations of women as objects in the tavern and brothel scenes in the visual commodities of 1 and 2 Henry IV (1596-1597, 1597-1598) and Pericles (1608) that show women to be subservient, sold for money and yet showcased to expose the illusion of this control.

Value-driven Service Matching and Bundling via a Service Value Broker

Value-driven Service Matching and Bundling via a Service Value Broker

Service Value Broker Patterns: An Empirical Collection and Analysis

The service value broker(SVB) pattern integrates business modeling, knowledge management and economic analysis with relieved complexity, enhanced reusability and efficiency,etc. The study of SVB is an emerging interdisciplinary subject which will help to promote the reuse of knowledge, strategy and experience in service based designs and solutions. In this paper, we focus on enumerating collected SVBs empirically with initial analysis on their composition manners. The results from this paper will play a dominating role in fueling a coming E-service Economics era.