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Journal articles on the topic "Consumer Society"

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Doris Rahmat and Santoso Budi NU. "Socialization of consumer protection against products that harming society." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 15, no. 1 (July 30, 2022): 262–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2022.15.1.0519.

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Despite the fact that the consumer protection law number 8 of 1999 has been issued on consumer protection, which guarantees the rights of consumers. Sometimes ignored by business actors and sadly consumers also act indifferently in fighting for the rights that must be obtained by consumers who have been protected by law. In Consumer Protection Act Article 29 paragraph 1 of Law No. 8 of 1999 concerning consumer protection it is stated that "the government is responsible for fostering the implementation of consumer protection which guarantees the acquisition of consumer rights and business actors as well as the implementation of the obligations of consumers and business actors.

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Matic, Nediljko. "Consumer society hermeneutics." Kultura, no. 133 (2011): 123–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/kultura1133123m.

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Parnis, Deborah. "Book Review: The Consumer Society Reader, The Consumer Society Reader." Journal of Consumer Culture 2, no. 2 (July 2002): 283–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/146954050200200210.

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Spickard, James V. "Religion in Consumer Society: Brands, Consumers and Markets." Journal of Contemporary Religion 30, no. 1 (December 23, 2014): 155–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2015.986995.

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Jafari, Aliakbar. "Religion in consumer society: brands, consumers and markets." Consumption Markets & Culture 17, no. 6 (February 18, 2014): 612–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2014.889406.

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Hilton, Matthew. "THE DEATH OF A CONSUMER SOCIETY." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 18 (November 10, 2008): 211–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080440108000716.

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ABSTRACTThis paper argues that the meaning of consumer society has changed over the last half century, principally through the prioritisation of choice over access. It does this through an examination of the global consumer movement and a consideration of its successes and failures. It demonstrates that through the movement's own tactics, and the defeats it suffered by opponents of regulation, its earlier emphasis on the right of consumers to enjoy basic needs has given way to a greater focus on choice. Consequently, the changing fortunes of consumer activism around the world both reflect and explain the reorientation of global consumer society over the last few decades.

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Gunderson, Ryan. "The Will to Consume: Schopenhauer and Consumer Society." Critical Horizons 17, no. 3-4 (September 14, 2016): 376–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2016.1190181.

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HUANG, Yan. "The Dilemma of Woman Body in the Consumer Society." International Journal of Social Science Studies 7, no. 3 (April 30, 2019): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v7i3.4241.

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Today in the consumer society, women pay much more attention to their bodies—not only to improvement in capability but much more to their figure and appearance. New techniques provide them with a lot of products—losing weight, spa, and bodybuilding surgery and so on—all of which tell them that they could be better and prettier. Looks is not inborn any longer. It can be changed and improved very easily. It is under this system of power discourse, women think that slim and curvaceous body figure with provocative BWH is their mission of life. This paper mainly discusses the features of female body and looks and their relation with the power discourse system in the consumer society. Under this system, woman confronts the dilemma: it is inevitable for them to pursue the modern beauty and fashion, which consume their time, money and energy, and their bodies become a commodity consumed at the same time.

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Malczyńska-Biały, Mira. "The specificities of modern consumer society in the European Union." Przegląd europejski 4 (February 2, 2020): 81–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.7890.

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The article aims to analyse the specificities of modern consumer society in the European Union and, therefore, it presents the genesis and the essence of consumer society development in Europe. It points to the idea of consumer society in terms of economy, politics, sociology, and philosophy. The specificities of the modern consumer society in the European Union are influenced by legislative processes in regard to the economical safety of consumers including safety of goods in terms of information, education, and redress, with special regard to cross-border transactions. The article presents the definition of consumer ethics and the specifics of certain ethical norms connected with the purchase process, what have evolved together with the development of consumer society in the EU.

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Almeida, Felipe. "Society and brain: A complementary approach to Thorstein Veblen’s conspicuous consumer based on Tibor Scitovsky’s neuropsychology." Nova Economia 26, no. 2 (August 2016): 347–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0103-6351/2994.

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Abstract: The goal of this study is to complement Thorstein Veblen's conspicuous consumer approach to economics with Tibor Scitovsky's neuropsychological analysis. This is undertaken by exploring the psychological basis of both theories. Veblen's conspicuous consumer emulates the leisure class, which consumes what can be understood as the best goods of a society. These goods are associated with the concept of social satisfaction rather than physical satisfaction. Veblen's conspicuous consumer decision making is introduced here according to insights from the American pragmatic school of philosophy. On the other hand, Scitovsky introduced elements of neuropsychology to economics using an interdisciplinary approach that was understandable to economists as he sought a better comprehension of consumers' decision making. Scitovsky's psychological-economics approach was inspired by studies from Daniel Berlyne and Donald Hebb. In considering Scitovsky's approach, this study contributes to understanding the decision making of Veblen's conspicuous consumer.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Consumer Society"

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Colling, Matthew Russell. "From Mass Consumer Society to a Society of Consumers: Consumption and Community in Late Modernity." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2913.pdf.

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Teglund, Carl-Mikael. "Needlework education and the consumer society." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-213378.

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The principal purpose of this essay is to research how the development of needlework education interacts and interconnects with consumption patterns. Iceland has been used as a case for this study but any country would be applicable. The point of departure is the assumption that when a society develops more and more into being a consumer society, the needlework education also will change – in drastic forms. And that tracing a development towards consumerism can be traced in the curricula regarding this specific subject. People’s changing attitude towards spending, wasting, and an extravagant living is an important feature which explains the shift between non-consumer societies to a consumer society. Society’s outlook on these features is best reflected by that policy the institutions society uses to form its citizens’ desirable (consumer) behavior. In understanding the development from a non-consumerist society to a consumer society the study on the Icelandic syllabi for needlework and textile education plays a prominent part. A presentation on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the period of time in question has also been used in order to see the general increase of the standard of living and rise of consumerism in Iceland. Also numbers on trade and unemployment have been enclosed in order to give a more telling picture of the development and the results. The spatial imprint of the development of the Icelandic educational system and the development of syllabi for the textile handicraft subject show that an established consumer society firstly can be found in Iceland somewhere between 1960 and 1977, thus slightly ensuing the most immediate period after the World War II. A society that educates its young ones to darn, mend, and knit with the explicit motive to help deprived homes and states that this is a necessary virtue for future housewives cannot rightly be called a consumer society. It is also worth mentioning that the subject was after this breakthrough also available for boys. Furthermore, this seems to coincide with the so called “haftatímanum”, the restriction era, which lasted from 1930 to 1960. During this time the Icelandic government controlled the market having an especially harsh policy on the import of consumer goods, with product rationing as a result. Both of these two matters - the syllabi for the textile handicraft subject and the haftatímanum - had an anaesthetized impact on the development of the Icelandic consumer society.

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Dudas, Mary J. "Feminizing consumption : political agency and consumer society /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10709.

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Zhou, Xiaoyi. "Beyond aestheticism : Oscar Wilde and consumer society." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335351.

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Tang, Chi Kin. "Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie and the self in consumer society." Thesis, University of Macau, 2010. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2456357.

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Hetel, Ioana Laura. "Selves and Shelves. Consumer Society and National Identity in France." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1211959481.

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Lawley, Scott. "Organisations and representation : implications for theory and practice." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250618.

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Majima, Shinobu. "Fashion and the mass consumer society in Britain, c.1950-2001." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432192.

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Fraser, Keith D. "Towards a theory of detritus : waste and value in consumer society." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594599.

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This thesis focuses on the complex cultural, social and material factors that combine to hasten the decay of value and precipitate disposal in contemporary consumer societies. I argue that the dominance in waste studies of constructivism as a framework for understanding the endowment of objects with value, has lead to an underestimation of the materiality of devalued materials and objects. This overemphasis on abstract value theory in dominant discourses, I suggest, necessitates a return to a more grounded theory of va1ue that can be re-integrated with both the material affordances of objects and political economy. I therefore reconsider and re-theorise Marx's concept of use-value in order to redress these concerns; particularly the tendency to treat waste as an issue autonomous of production in capitalist societies. I argue that use-value can be reinterpreted as encompassing symbolic as well as material aspects of objects and that Marx therefore provides a significant basis for reworking theories of waste and impurity. I also argue for a renewed emphasis on the changing temporal characteristics of objects and their value in order to counter the overly synchronic and spatial basis of classic approaches to dirt, waste and disposal. My argument is brought into critical engagement with the cultura1 theory of Mary Douglas and Michael Thompson's influential Rubbish Theory: The Destruction and Creation of Value (I979), as well as more recent engagements in debates. With reference to the thesis I develop, I ask whether it can be legitimately claimed that capitalist consumer societies are also necessarily 'throwaway societies' and I discuss the possibility that objects devoid of use and exchange values can offer a critique of the capitalist economic system

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TAVARES, VICTOR MORETO SILVA. "MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS: ROCK, MELANCHOLIA AND CONSUMER SOCIETY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=21946@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
Este trabalho tem como objetivo discutir a sociedade de consumo, o rock and roll e a manifestação da melancolia na segunda metade do século XX, em especial a partir dos anos 1990. Conjugados, esses termos representam um diálogo íntimo e combinatório, que nos ajuda analisar a sociedade sob diferentes aspectos: a produção musical e seus reflexos sociais; a melancolia – e sua conceituação – com crescente relevância em diagnósticos e percepções; a sociedade de consumo como campo, tanto para o surgimento do rock quanto para a aparição do fenômeno melancólico; e a própria relação rock x melancolia que ora denuncia, ora é produtora de significados sociais. Entram em discussão as noções sobre individualismo, linearidade, invisibilidade social, fetichismo mercadológico e a falência do conceito de progresso.
This thesis discusses the consumer society, rock and roll and the manifestation of melancholia in the second half of the twentieth century, especially since the 1990s. Together, these terms represents an intimate dialogue which helps us to analyze the society in different aspects: music production and its social consequences; melancholia - and its concept - with an increasing relevance in diagnostic and perceptions; consumer society as field for the emergence of rock as to the appearance of the phenomenon melancholia; and the relation rock x melancholy that produces social meanings. Also discusses notions about individualism, linearity, social invisibility, market fetishism and failure of the concept of progress.

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Books on the topic "Consumer Society"

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Zelenak, Mel J. Consumer economics: The consumer in our society. Scottsdale, Ariz: Holcomb Hathaway, 2010.

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Wendy, Reiboldt, ed. Consumer economics: The consumer in our society. Scottsdale, Ariz: Holcomb Hathaway, 2010.

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Zelenak, Mel J. Consumer economics: The consumer in our society. Scottsdale, Ariz: Holcomb Hathaway, 2010.

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Zelenak, Mel J. Consumer economics: The consumer in our society. Scottsdale, Ariz: Pub. Horizons, 1993.

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Lee, Stewart Munro. Consumer economics: The consumer in our society. Columbus, Ohio: Pub. Horizons, 1990.

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Zelenak, Mel J. Consumer economics: The consumer in our society. Scottsdale, Ariz: Holcomb Hathaway Publishers, 2006.

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Consumer economics: The consumer in our society. Scottsdale, Ariz: Holcomb Hathaway Publishers, 1999.

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Consumer economics: The consumer in our society. Scottsdale, Ariz: Holcomb Hathaway, 2002.

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Huckle, John. Our consumer society. Godalming, Surrey: WWF United Kingdom, 1993.

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A consumer society. Cambridge: Independence, 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Consumer Society"

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Rojas, Mariano. "Consumer Society." In Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, 1218–21. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_546.

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Qualter, Terence H. "The Consumer Society." In Advertising and Democracy in the Mass Age, 37–55. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21610-9_3.

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Jameson, Fredric. "Postmodernism and Consumer Society." In Postmodern Debates, 22–36. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-04505-8_3.

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Tampke, Jürgen. "Towards a Consumer Society." In The Peoples Republics of Eastern Europe, 139–53. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003251682-10.

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Leiss, William, Stephen Kline, Sut Jhally, Jacqueline Botterill, and Kyle Asquith. "Late-Modern Consumer Society." In Social Communication in Advertising, 214–37. 4th ed. Fourth Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2018. | Revised edition of Social communication in advertising, 2005.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315106021-9.

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Holm, Nicholas. "Introduction: Why study advertising?" In Advertising and Consumer Society, 1–13. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47175-8_1.

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Holm, Nicholas. "The politics of advertising: Capitalism, resistance and liberalism." In Advertising and Consumer Society, 201–9. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47175-8_10.

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Holm, Nicholas. "The history of advertising: Contexts, transformations and continuity." In Advertising and Consumer Society, 14–34. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47175-8_2.

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Holm, Nicholas. "Analysing advertisements: Form, semiotics and ideology." In Advertising and Consumer Society, 35–62. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47175-8_3.

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Holm, Nicholas. "Advertising, capitalism and ideology." In Advertising and Consumer Society, 63–92. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47175-8_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "Consumer Society"

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Rudykh, L. G. "Specific Problems Of Consumer Society." In RPTSS 2018 - International Conference on Research Paradigms Transformation in Social Sciences. Cognitive-Crcs, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2018.12.123.

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Discombe, O. "Online consumer response: key variables affecting consumers’ value perceptions." In INTERNET SOCIETY 2006. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/is060381.

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"IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Presidents Welcome." In 2006 IEEE Tenth International Symposium on Consumer Electronics. IEEE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/isce.2006.1689400.

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"IEEE Consumer Electronics Society President's welcome." In 2009 IEEE 13th International Symposium on Consumer Electronics. IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/isce.2009.5156793.

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Sato, Kazuhiro, and Shun-ichi Azuma. "Design of consumer groups including uncontrollable consumers." In 2017 56th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/sice.2017.8105715.

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LI, MENG-SHUANG. "ANALYSIS OF FAST FASHION CONSUMER BEHAVIOR FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CONSUMER SOCIETY RESEARCH." In 2021 International Conference on Education, Humanity and Language, Art. Destech Publications, Inc., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12783/dtssehs/ehla2021/35724.

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The advent of the consumer society and mass media era has reconstructed the way people produce and live. Based on this condition, fast fashion as a new clothing industry has been spawned and has become popular rapidly. First of all, this article analyzes the concepts of fast fashion and fast fashion consumption, in order to explore the attribution of the rise of fast fashion consumption, including the rapid development of society and economy, the urgency of stimulating people's domestic demand, the driving role of mass media and advertising, and the psychological needs of the public keep increasing and so on. In addition, Fast-food consumerism represented by fast fashion has become a symbol that distinguishes a certain class or group. This article uses the sociology of consumption as a research perspective to explore the symbolic value of fast fashion consumption. It includes four types of symbolic values, including the value of highlighting differences, the value of distinguishing social classes, the value of belonging to a social group, and the value of resolving identity crises. At last, as a summary part, this article summarizes the benefits of fast fashion consumption, and makes certain reflections and suggestions on the disadvantages of fast fashion consumption.

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"IEEE Consumer Electronics Society President's welcome note." In 2015 IEEE 4th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/gcce.2015.7398476.

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"2004 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Administration Committee." In IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, 2004. IEEE, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/isce.2004.1375884.

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"IEEE Consumer Electronics Society president's welcome message." In 2013 IEEE Third International Conference on Consumer Electronics ¿ Berlin (ICCE-Berlin). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icce-berlin.2013.6697956.

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Dukes, Stephen D. "IEEE consumer electronics society president's welcome message." In 2012 IEEE 1st Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE). IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/gcce.2012.6379980.

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Reports on the topic "Consumer Society"

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Burns-Dans, Elizabeth, Alexandra Wallis, and Deborah Gare. A History of the Architects Board of Western Australia, 1921-2021. The Architects Board of Western Australia and The University of Notre Dame Australia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.32613/reports/2021.1.

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An economic and population boom in the 1890s created opportunities for architects to find work and fame in Western Australia. Architecture, therefore, became a viable profession for the first time, and the number of practicing architects in the colony (and then state) quickly grew. Associations such as the Western Australian Institute of Architects were established to organise the profession, but as the number of architects grew and Western Australian society matured, it became evident that a role for government was required to ensure practice standards and consumer protection. In 1921, therefore, the Architects Act was passed, and, in the following year, the Architects Board of Western Australia was launched. This report traces the evolution and transformation of professional architectural practice since then, and evaluates the role and impact of the Board in its first century.

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Tyson, Paul. Orchestrated Irrationality: Why It Exists and How It Might Be Resisted. Mέta | Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation, May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55405/mwp13en.

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Orchestrated irrationality in our public discourse is produced by technologically enhanced and commercially purposed atomization and tribalism. Public discourse now leans away from a humane, free, and reasoned political rationality and towards self-interested, calculative, herd conformism. The bulls and bears of consumer society have largely displaced the civic logic of the liberal democratic pursuit of the common good. The power interests that govern global consumerism are enhanced by subordinating the common good ends of genuinely political life to the self-interested and profit driven dynamics of the market. Orchestrated irrationality in our public discourse makes politics into a meaningless theatre of incommensurate tribal interest narratives, which is a convenient distraction from the collaborative consolidation of market power and state control. This orchestrated irrationality can only be combatted by seeking to de-atomize citizens and de-tribalize the public square in order to recover the priority of political life over market and authoritarian power in our public discourse. That is, a postcapitalist civilization that is oriented to a genuinely political and universally moral rationality must replace the present global order. Once we can identify the problem and the direction of cure for orchestrated irrationality, we can then take steps towards a different civilizational life-world.

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Just, David, and Amir Heiman. Building local brand for fresh fruits and vegetables: A strategic approach aimed at strengthening the local agricultural sector. United States Department of Agriculture, January 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2016.7600039.bard.

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Abstract The debate about whether to reduce import barriers on fresh produce in order to decrease the cost of living and increase welfare or to continue protecting the local agricultural sector by imposing import duties on fresh vegetables and fruits has been part of the Israeli and the US political dialog. The alternative of building a strong local brand that will direct patriotic feelings to support of the agricultural sector has been previously discussed in the literature as a non-tax barrier to global competition. The motivation of consumers to pay more for local fresh fruits and vegetables are better quality, environmental concerns, altruism, and ethnocentrism. Local patriotic feelings are expected to be stronger among national-religious consumers and weaker among secular left wing voters. This project empirically analyzes consumers’ attitude toward local agricultural production, perceptions of the contribution of the agricultural sector to society and how these perceptions interact with patriotic beliefs and socio-political variables perhaps producing an ethnocentric preference for fruits and vegetables. This patriotic feeling may be contrasted with feelings toward rival (or even politically opposing) countries competing in the same markets. Thus geo-political landscape may help shape the consumer’s preferences and willingness to purchase particular products. Our empirical analysis is based on two surveys, one conducted among Israeli shoppers and one conducted among US households. We find strong influences of nationalism, patriotism and ethnocentrism on demand for produce in both samples. In the case of Israel this manifests itself as a significant discount demanded for countries in conflict with Israel (e.g., Syria or Palestine), with the discount demanded being related to the strength of the conflict. Moreover, the effect is larger for those who are either more religious, or those who identify with right leaning political parties. The results from the US are strikingly similar. For some countries the perception of conflict is dependent on political views (e.g., Mexico), while for others there is a more agreement (e.g., Russia). Despite a substantially different religious and political landscape, both right leaning political views and religiosity play strong roles in demand for foreign produce.

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Abell, Thomas, Arndt Husar, and Lim May-Ann. Cloud Computing as a Key Enabler for Tech Start-Ups across Asia and the Pacific. Asian Development Bank, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/wps210253-2.

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New enterprises that produce digital solutions for businesses, public institutions, civil society, and consumers play a vital role in shaping digital economies. These dynamic start-ups most effectively integrate leading talent and sources of capital. They are driven by an urgency to succeed quickly—if they do not, they will then seek to deploy skills and resources more effectively. Governments need to establish or refine policies and mechanisms that foster vibrant start-up ecosystems, enabled by foundational technologies such as cloud computing. This paper provides an overview of the opportunities and challenges involved and suggests how policymakers can help start-ups make the most of cloud-computing technologies.

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Oviedo, Daniel, Daniel Perez Jaramillo, and Mariajosé Nieto. Governance and Regulation of Ride-hailing Services in Emerging Markets: Challenges, Experiences and Implications. Inter-American Development Bank, August 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003579.

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This paper seeks to shed some light on the different considerations for regulation and governance of ride-hailing platforms in emerging markets, highlighting their positive and negative externalities. Building on an extensive review of the literature and secondary sources, we outline Ride-hailing's identified and potential effects on users (providers and consumers), incumbents, and society. Based on the welfare impacts structure, we identify the significant challenges that regulators face in understanding, monitoring, evaluating, and regulating this type of transportation innovation. Finally, the paper proposes a framework for approaching such mobility innovations from governance and regulation perspectives. In a context of exponential growth in research and innovation in urban mobility in general and Ride-hailing, a rigorous review of the literature and a critical framework for understanding governance and regulation in such services in rapidly changing contexts is a timely contribution.

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Díaz de Astarloa, Bernardo, Nanno Mulder, Sandra Corcuera-Santamaría, Winfried Weck, Lucas Barreiros, Rodrigo Contreras Huerta, and Alejandro Puente. Post Pandemic Covid-19 Economic Recovery: Enabling Latin America and the Caribbean to Better Harness E-commerce and Digital Trade. Edited by Marcee Gómez. Inter-American Development Bank, August 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003436.

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This report shows that Latin America and the Caribbean faces critical policy challenges going forward. It must accelerate the digital transformation to allow businesses and consumers to adapt to a new normal and leverage pandemic recovery to create stronger economies, and also tackle long-standing barriers to adopting digital technologies and bridging digital divides. These have impeded sustained and equitable economic growth even before the pandemic struck. This crisis should be a wake-up call for governments, the private sector, civil society, and international development partners to come together and take concerted actions to advance on consistent, long-term, and sustainable e-commerce strategies that are at the forefront of national and regional productive development agendas. Just as digital solutions allowed countries to overcome the increased role of distance within the context of the pandemic in shaping consumption and business, they should also be harnessed to increase regional economic integration beyond this emergency situation.

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Zinenko, Olena. THE SPECIFICITY OF INTERACTION OF JOURNALISTS WITH THE PUBLIC IN COVERAGE OF PUBLIC EVENTS ON SOCIAL TOPICS. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11056.

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Consideration of aspects of the functioning of mass media in society requires a comprehensive approach based on universal media theory. The article presents an attempt to consider public events in terms of a functional approach to understanding the media, proposed by media theorist Dennis McQuayl in the theory of mass communication. Public events are analyzed, on the one hand, as a complex object of journalistic reflection and, on the other hand, as a situational media that examines the relationship of agents of the social and media fields in the space of communication interaction. Taking into account philosophical approaches to the interpretation of the concept of event, considering its semantic spectrum, specificity of use and synonyms in the Ukrainian language, a working definition of the concept of public event is given. Based on case-analysis of public events, In accordance with the functions of the media the functions of public events are outlined. This is is promising for the development of study on typology of public events in the context of mass communication theory. The realization of the functions of public events as situational media is illustrated with such vivid examples of cultural events as «Gogolfest» and «Book Forum in Lviv». The author shows that a functional approach to understanding public events in society and their place in the space of mass communication, opens prospects for studying the role of media in reflecting the phenomena of social reality, clarifying the presence and quality of communication between media producers and media consumers.

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Keefer, Philip, and Carlos Scartascini, eds. Trust: The Key to Social Cohesion and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (Executive Summary). Inter-American Development Bank, January 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003911.

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Trust is the most pressing and yet least discussed problem confronting Latin America and the Caribbean. Whether in others, in government, or in firms, trust is lower in the region than anywhere else in the world. The economic and political consequences of mistrust ripple through society. It suppresses growth and innovation: investment, entrepreneurship, and employment all flourish when firms and government, workers and employers, banks and borrowers, and consumers and producers trust each other. Trust inside private and public sector organizations is essential for collaboration and innovation. Mistrust distorts democratic decision-making. It keeps citizens from demanding better public services and infrastructure, from joining with others to control corruption, and from making the collective sacrifices that leave everyone better off. The good news is that governments can increase citizen trust with clearer promises of what citizens can expect from them, public sector reforms that enable them to keep their promises, and institutional reforms that strengthen the commitments that citizens make to each other. This book guides decision-makers as they incorporate trust and social cohesion into the comprehensive reforms needed to address the region's most pernicious challenges.

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Boyle, Maxwell, and Elizabeth Rico. Terrestrial vegetation monitoring at Cape Hatteras National Seashore: 2019 data summary. National Park Service, January 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2290019.

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The Southeast Coast Network (SECN) conducts long-term terrestrial vegetation monitoring as part of the nationwide Inventory and Monitoring Program of the National Park Service (NPS). The vegetation community vital sign is one of the primary-tier resources identified by SECN park managers, and monitoring is currently conducted at 15 network parks (DeVivo et al. 2008). Monitoring plants and their associated communities over time allows for targeted understanding of ecosystems within the SECN geography, which provides managers information about the degree of change within their parks’ natural vegetation. The first year of conducting this monitoring effort at four SECN parks, including 52 plots on Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CAHA), was 2019. Twelve vegetation plots were established at Cape Hatteras NS in July and August. Data collected in each plot included species richness across multiple spatial scales, species-specific cover and constancy, species-specific woody stem seedling/sapling counts and adult tree (greater than 10 centimeters [3.9 inches {in}]) diameter at breast height (DBH), overall tree health, landform, soil, observed disturbance, and woody biomass (i.e., fuel load) estimates. This report summarizes the baseline (year 1) terrestrial vegetation data collected at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in 2019. Data were stratified across four dominant broadly defined habitats within the park (Maritime Tidal Wetlands, Maritime Nontidal Wetlands, Maritime Open Uplands, and Maritime Upland Forests and Shrublands) and four land parcels (Bodie Island, Buxton, Hatteras Island, and Ocracoke Island). Noteworthy findings include: A total of 265 vascular plant taxa (species or lower) were observed across 52 vegetation plots, including 13 species not previously documented within the park. The most frequently encountered species in each broadly defined habitat included: Maritime Tidal Wetlands: saltmeadow cordgrass Spartina patens), swallow-wort (Pattalias palustre), and marsh fimbry (Fimbristylis castanea) Maritime Nontidal Wetlands: common wax-myrtle (Morella cerifera), saltmeadow cordgrass, eastern poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans var. radicans), and saw greenbriar (Smilax bona-nox) Maritime Open Uplands: sea oats (Uniola paniculata), dune camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris), and seabeach evening-primrose (Oenothera humifusa) Maritime Upland Forests and Shrublands: : loblolly pine (Pinus taeda), southern/eastern red cedar (Juniperus silicicola + virginiana), common wax-myrtle, and live oak (Quercus virginiana). Five invasive species identified as either a Severe Threat (Rank 1) or Significant Threat (Rank 2) to native plants by the North Carolina Native Plant Society (Buchanan 2010) were found during this monitoring effort. These species (and their overall frequency of occurrence within all plots) included: alligatorweed (Alternanthera philoxeroides; 2%), Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica; 10%), Japanese stilt-grass (Microstegium vimineum; 2%), European common reed (Phragmites australis; 8%), and common chickweed (Stellaria media; 2%). Eighteen rare species tracked by the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program (Robinson 2018) were found during this monitoring effort, including two species—cypress panicgrass (Dichanthelium caerulescens) and Gulf Coast spikerush (Eleocharis cellulosa)—listed as State Endangered by the Plant Conservation Program of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCPCP 2010). Southern/eastern red cedar was a dominant species within the tree stratum of both Maritime Nontidal Wetland and Maritime Upland Forest and Shrubland habitat types. Other dominant tree species within CAHA forests included loblolly pine, live oak, and Darlington oak (Quercus hemisphaerica). One hundred percent of the live swamp bay (Persea palustris) trees measured in these plots were experiencing declining vigor and observed with symptoms like those caused by laurel wilt......less

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Arroyo, Liliana, Marc Payola, and Erika Molina. Economía de plataformas y COVID-19: Una mirada a las actividades de reparto, los cuidados y los servicios virtuales en España y América Latina. Inter-American Development Bank, January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003020.

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La pandemia de la COVID-19 ha acelerado tendencias en la economía digital que no se preveían alcanzar hasta dentro de cinco o diez años, alterado nuestra cotidianeidad, fomentando desde nuevas dinámicas sociales hasta nuevos patrones de consumo, al mismo tiempo que ha supuesto un verdadero punto de inflexión en muchos ámbitos de nuestra vida personal y colectiva. Uno de los sectores que ha sufrido un impacto mayor es el de la economía digital, y, especialmente el de la economía de plataformas, tanto a nivel económico como laboral. Las plataformas digitales han iniciado un proceso de adaptación a este nuevo contexto para ajustarse a las nuevas necesidades de consumidores, empresas y trabajadores. Sin embargo, todavía existe poca información acerca de la magnitud de los impactos de la COVID-19 en la economía de plataformas y sobre las medidas que el sector está tomando para adaptarse a esta nueva realidad. Por ello el laboratorio de Digital Future Society (DFS Lab) y el laboratorio de innovación del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID Lab) han elaborado este informe en el que se recoge la voz de 34 plataformas laborales digitales que operan en España y/o en América Latina en alguno de los tres sectores analizados: los repartos, los cuidados y los servicios virtuales. Este informe presenta sus experiencias en relación con el impacto de la COVID-19 y su percepción del futuro de la economía de plataformas.

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