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- Bertilsson, Jon
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The cynicism of consumer morality
- 2015
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Ingår i: Consumption Markets and Culture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1025-3866 .- 1477-223X. ; 18:5, s. 447-467
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on an empirical analysis of a yearlong netnography of a Swedish online fashion community, and the explication of the concept of modern cynicism, this paper develops a novel perspective on consumer morality. The analysis suggests that modern cynicism informs consumers of the reasonableness in consciously stating one type of morality while acting out another, in order to handle the morally conflicting demands put on them by contemporary consumer culture. The contribution of the paper is mainly threefold: (i) it conceptualizes instances of consumer morality as a form of consumer cynicism; (ii) it advances our understanding of consumer morality by showing how instances of consumer morality are articulated through cynical discursive practices, steeped in an enlightened disbelief in: the market, the other consumer and the self; and (iii) it shows that consumer cynicism, as enlightened critique, does not necessarily constitute an effective form of resistance. It is concluded that we may observe yet another type of morality developing within contemporary consumption, markets and culture: a morality of cynicism where consumers, actors and organizations not only find something healthy, but also something right or good in a cynical reason.
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- Fuentes, Christian, 1978, et al.
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Agencing ethical consumers: smartphone apps and the socio-material reconfiguration of everyday life
- 2019
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Ingår i: Consumption Markets and Culture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1025-3866 .- 1477-223X. ; 22:2, s. 131-156
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group The aim of this paper is to describe and explain how smartphone apps, designed to assist consumers in making informed ethical choices and greening their everyday practices, enable and shape ethical consumption. Taking a socio-material approach and drawing on an ethnographic study of three ethical consumption apps – the Green guide, the Fair trade app and Shopgun – the paper shows that these digital devices are scripted to hybridize with consumers and facilitate key ethical consumer actions. When consumers follow the scripts of these apps, using them in everyday practices, the apps put pressure on consumers to act “ethically” by problematizing consumption in various ways while also, and simultaneously, endowing them with the agential capacities required to solve these problems. Consequently, these devices both motivate consumers and enable ethical consumption, producing, under the right conditions, capable and self-reflexive ethical consumer hybrids.
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- Hagberg, Johan, 1973, et al.
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Retail formations: tracing the fluid forms of an online retailer
- 2018
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Ingår i: Consumption, markets & culture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1025-3866 .- 1477-223X. ; 21:5, s. 423-444
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Change has often been said to characterise retailing, and research on retail change is extensive. However, though much of that research has focused on retail formats, it has not sufficiently addressed the fluid nature of retailing and how its formats emerge. This paper offers a more dynamic conceptualisation of retail format change by introducing the concept of retail formation. Taking a constructivist market studies approach and drawing upon an ethnographic study of a Swedish consumer electronics retailer, the paper shows how retail formations are continually being made in a dynamic process that can be initiated by various actors, does not necessarily follow a logical order, and commonly produces unexpected results. The concept of retail formation allows us to better understand the increasing fluidity of retailing enabling us to trace complex market processes, examine multiple actors simultaneously, and taking into account the socio-historical and socio-cultural dynamics involved in shaping retail markets.
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- Löfgren, Orvar
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Mess : on domestic overflows
- 2017
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Ingår i: Consumption Markets and Culture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1025-3866 .- 1477-223X. ; 20:1, s. 1-6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many homes in affluent Western societies have an ongoing battle against domestic mess, because of the steady inflow of new acquisitions. This essay looks at the ways in which mess has travelled through modern history and has ended up as both a powerful metaphor and a constant everyday worry in consumer life. In this process, mess has often been defined as a problematic condition, often reflecting the moral shortcoming of messy individuals. It has also created new market opportunities, services and solutions for de-cluttering. Mess illustrates some of the tensions in contemporary patterns of consumption and highlights the understudied aspects of how commodities are transformed during their domestic life cycle. The focus is on the ways in which materiality and affect are linked in these processes. The paper draws on an ongoing research project, “Managing Overflow.”
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- Sörum, Niklas, et al.
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How sociotechnical imaginaries shape consumers’ experiences of and responses to commercial data collection practices
- 2023
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Ingår i: Consumption, markets & culture. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1025-3866 .- 1477-223X. ; 26:1, s. 24-46
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How is the ongoing “datafication” in society experienced by consumers? Critical discussions regarding the impact of datafication on consumers seldom study consumers’ actual experiences. Conversely, the studies that do exist of consumers and their experiences of datafication tend to take an individualistic approach, arguing that how consumers experience and respond to the ongoing datafication is the result of their individual psychological make-up or the result of processes of cost–benefit calculations. Against that background, this article will instead show that the ways in which consumers experience and respond to datafication is linked to a number of broader sociotechnical imaginaries. Based on in-depth user interviews and drawing on previous work on sociotechnical imaginaries, this article develops an analysis of consumers’ multiple imaginaries of data collection practices. Findings show that how consumers approach data collection operations is shaped by sociotechnical imaginaries that were both individually and collectively performed by consumers interacting with and using data-collecting devices.
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