Gamification and Questionable Practices on She-In Website

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Exploring how She-In uses gamification to encourage customers to review products for points, fostering a community of positive feedback while handling negative reviews secretively. Contrasting the review system with Amazon's, revealing ambiguity, manipulation, and chaos in incentivizing review interactions.

Paris Marx is joined by Nicole Lipman to discuss SHEIN’s rise to the top of the fast fashion industry and how it exacerbates the sector’s labor and environment problems.

Nicole Lipman is a writer and assistant editor at n+1.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

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Nicole did a deep dive into SHEIN and how it operates for n+1.
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