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Rowan Mercer Rowan Mercer

The Economy of Access: How parasocial bonds create revenue

When online creators sell access as care, the line between service, intimacy and influence can become dangerously blurred. The Economy of Access examines how pseudo-services, parasocial bonds and brand partnerships can turn trust and vulnerability into revenue, often with a discount code attached, while accountability remains conspicuously absent.

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E. W. Hamilton E. W. Hamilton

Stolen By The Story: Losing Someone You Love to Dangerous Beliefs

Dangerous beliefs rarely arrive all at once. They creep in through certainty, grievance and the slow erosion of ordinary conversation, until disagreement becomes betrayal and family life reorganises itself around a story that cannot be questioned. Stolen by the Story traces the emotional cost of watching loved ones disappear into conspiracy and hostility, and what it takes to survive being rewritten as the enemy.

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Rowan Mercer Rowan Mercer

Nobody Wants to Work — Or So We’re Told

Younger generations are routinely accused of rejecting work, but Nobody Wants to Work (Or So We’re Told) asks whether what they are really rejecting is the fine print. Drawing on generational experience, economic insecurity and the psychological cost of modern employment, it explores what happens when hard work no longer guarantees stability, dignity or a believable future, and why refusing to pretend otherwise is not the same as refusing to work.

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The Editorial Team The Editorial Team

THE SHARED SHELF: A Chapter & Chronicle Project

Literacy is not a decorative skill, and creativity is not a luxury. Yet access to books, art and culture still depends far too often on income, postcode, confidence or circumstance. The Shared Shelf is Chapter & Chronicle’s answer, a project that begins deliberately small, in the hope that one day a box of stories, art materials and creative possibility might be found on almost every street corner, within reach of anyone who needs it.

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