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‐98), conducted in Finland. The main motivating factors leading to network use were the requirements of work and study; also making …
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Explores the idea of the Utopian vision of consumer research through eschatology, which seeks to establish a new version of reality of consumers and which exposes existing inadequacies in our knowledge and understanding. Promise and hope depict an orientation to the future implicit in the...
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a range of factors which might explain the variations in consumer behaviour namely: the gender schema and financial …
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In an era marked by profound technological change young people must prepare for a future in which rapid innovation is accompanied by the passing of traditional social norms such as career paths and job security. This calls for a level of self‐reliance, self‐determination and preparedness for...
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Despite the fact that effective information skills are a prerequisite for young people in today's society, relatively little is known about how youngsters actually find information. The existing knowledge base on the subject is scanty and piecemeal, and few efforts have been made to explore, as...
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Purpose – This paper seeks to conceptualize the field of child and teen consumption as a system of social practices at the cross roads of six strongly intermingled subsystems covering social, institutional, technological, narrative, economic, and political stakes. Children's and teens'...
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Purpose – Marketers have increased decision‐making responsibility when they work either directly or indirectly with children and adolescents; a vulnerable sector of the population. These young consumers are the target of much‐criticised practices. The objective of this paper is to lay the...
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Identifies five features which distinguish the millennial generation (or Generation Y), focusing on young people aged 18 to 24: intimacy, loyalty, awareness, balance, and risk. Examines each of these: intimacy refers to the reliance of millennials on mobile phones and the internet to initiate as...
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the youth market. Discusses youth culture and the youth market’s characteristics in an age of media explosion and … sameness rather than indicate difference. Describes the Collections of Cool research project at MTV, which analyses the youth … market, and MTV’s “Switched On” publication covering microtrends in youth culture: this has identified likely hot artists and …
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Analyses how the basic similarity of youth culture worldwide allows marketers to segment it across a four …
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