Samantha Close is a doctoral candidate in Communication at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include digital media, theory-practice, political economy, fan studies, gender, and race. She focuses particularly on labor and transforming models of creative industries and capitalism. Her documentary “I Am Handmade: Crafting in the Age of Computers,” based on her on-going dissertation work into the economic culture of crafting, is hosted online by Vice Media’s Motherboard channel. Her writing appears in the academic journals Feminist Media Studies, Transformative Works and Cultures, and Anthropology Now as well as in more informal online spaces.
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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard