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Sustainable promotion and digital virtual consumption

November 11, 2008

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Staff here have been having internal debates about sustainable promotion and what it means for what we research and teach in the Corporate and Marketing Communications Academic Group. Here is the text of my opening remarks in the 2nd of our recent debates… Kevin Moloney and Barry Richards have suggested that the rather ambiguous idea… [Read more…]

Barber, Infantilization and Sim-Africa

June 19, 2008

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I’ve just read Benjamin Barber’s ‘Consumed’. In it, amongst other things, he presents both a fairly traditional description of the dematerialisation of consumption that results from post-Fordism consumption and a pretty standard attack on ‘low culture’ which he damns as infantile. He also attempts to link the infantile behaviour of Western consumers to many of… [Read more…]

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