Collateral Casualties of Consumerism

Bauman, Zygmunt

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“…As a consequence, participation has not only increased but also widened to include, for the first time, the middle class, ironically the group traditionally most hostile towards gambling in a shift that has "normalized" the activity (Reith 2007a, p.35). As a result, explanations for gambling may be better served by an examination of gambling using the theoretical framework of the 'consumer society', one that accounts for the contemporary reconfiguration of social relations (Bauman 2007;Cosgrave & Klassen 2001;Reith 1999).…”

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“…In an epidemiological vein, a distinction is often drawn between recreational gambling, viewed as a relatively benign leisure pursuit, and problem gambling, a situation where an individual has difficulty controlling his or her gambling behaviour, leading to adverse consequences for them or others (Neal et al 2005, p.i). This distinction between the healthy and the problematic gambler implies that it is the 'pathological subject' (Reith 2007a) or 'failed consumer' (Bauman 2007) that demands both research attention and clinical intervention. While the validity of this individualized approach has been questioned on the ground that it places responsibility on the individual as opposed to social processes and institutions more generally (McGowan 2004;Parsons and Webster 2000;Reith 2007a), it has nonetheless had the effect centring research efforts around the problematic or risky side of gambling participation-a concern with the minority of problem gamblers (Abbott et al 2004;Clarke et al 2006;Cox et al 2005;Productivity Commission 1999;Shaffer et al 1999;Volberg et al 2001;Welte et al 2004).…”

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Player Preferences and Social Harm: An Analysis of the Relationships Between Player Characteristics, Gambling Modes, and Problem Gambling

Young

Stevens

2008

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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To explore the structure of gambling participation and its association with problem gambling, we draw upon Caillois's distinction between games based on competition (i.e. agôn) and those based on chance (i.e. alea). The idea that alea and agôn are socially patterned and associated with differing levels of problem gambling, as measured by the Canadian Problem Gambling Index (CPGI), was empirically tested using data from the 2005 Northern Territory Gambling Prevalence Survey (Australia). This survey collected information on gambling participation, problem gambling, and a range of socio-demographic variables from a representative sample of the Northern Territory adult population. Principal Components Analysis of participation in eight different gambling activities was used to explore the underlying structure of participation. Subsequently, regression was used to identify associations between dimensions of participation, social characteristics, and problem gambling. While a two-factor solution supported a basic distinction between agonistic and aleatory games, the third factor of a three-factor solution combined the two categories, indicating that activity preferences are more complex than the agôn-alea duality would suggest. There were significant associations between the two-factor solution and sociodemographic variables including geographic remoteness, age, gender, and household type. No association was found between alea, agôn and the CPGI, suggesting that it is the configuration of specific games, rather the broad structure of activities, that influence problem gambling risk. In terms of harm minimisation, strategies that target specific gambling games may be more effective than those that cover a range of gambling modes.

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Player Preferences and Social Harm: An Analysis of the Relationships Between Player Characteristics, Gambling Modes, and Problem Gambling

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Stevens

2008

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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“…Journal of Marketing Management, Volume 26 'underclass' (Bauman, 2007) or 'subaltern' (Varman & Belk, 2008) status, potentially leading to social upheaval (cf. Boltanski & Chiapello, 2005).…”

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Towards a history of critical marketing studies

Tadajewski

2010

Journal of Marketing Management

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“…People are 'permitted to choose from a menu of options offered by the world but not to improve the menu or the world' (Barber 2007, p. 36). This fact typifies the movement described by Baumann (2007) from societies of production to societies of consumption; or to put it another way, from homo faber to homo consumens. Fromm defines Homo Consumens as the person 'whose main goal is not primarily to own things, but to consume more and more, and thus to compensate for his inner vacuity, passivity, loneliness and anxiety ' (Fromm 1984, p. 17).…”

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Surveillance privacy and technology: contemporary Irish perspectives

Doyle¹

2013

Internet Research, Theory, and Practice: Perspectives From Ireland

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Surveillance, Privacy and Technology: Contemporary Irish Perspectives Kenny Doyle Surveillance is typically envisaged as the act of a person being physically watched, their movements and behaviour monitored in a given space and time. While this type of watching undoubtedly takes place, there is also the more subtle and pervasive monitoring of people through the data they accumulate in their daily lives.Contemporary Irish society is mediated by digital technology; the daily life of the typical person creates a mass of data which can offer many telling clues as to the type of life they lead. This form of surveillance is called dataveillance (Clarke 1988). It is unclear however exactly how much citizens know about these practices and how they negotiate with and respond to surveillance systems which have become integrated into the everyday lived experience in Ireland. This study aimed -by conducting focused interviews with Irish citizens -to explore the levels of knowledge regarding surveillance and privacy and to ascertain the importance placed on these concepts.Fifteen people participated in semi-structured interviews as part of this qualitative study.The interviews covered the participants knowledge of surveillance, privacy and technology in the three social roles of worker, citizen and consumer. Thus the three main themes of the interviews centred around work, security and consumption, with each theme opening up a series of discussions on normative expectations regarding surveillance and privacy. As well as exploring the level of knowledge regarding surveillance and privacy, a further aim to uncover any discursive repertoires used to describe how participants understand and interact with systems of surveillance.Broadly speaking the findings were that there is a very basic understanding of surveillance, who it is conducted by, and the reasons for its occurrence. While participants mostly identified themselves as being private, their actions often left them open to surveillance in ways which they knew very little about. This was particularly 3 evident in questions relating to consumer based surveillance, social networking and use of the internet in general. There was very little in the way of knowledge about the information economy as was most strikingly evident in the fact that most participants had no idea how either Google or Facebook make money.Many conceptions of surveillance see it in terms of it being a top down style exercise of power, as is evident from this study it is perhaps not quite so simple. Systems of monitoring and surveillance can be seen in some instances to work both ways and in the examples of both law enforcement and work supervision; surveillance was characterised as a means of holding power to account. This means that in some limited examples subjects of surveillance are capable of reflecting its gaze back on the people or organisations conducting it. In the case of work supervision for example, it was exhaustive systems of record keeping and oversight which made it easier for empl...

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Collateral Casualties of Consumerism

Cited by 89 publications

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Player Preferences and Social Harm: An Analysis of the Relationships Between Player Characteristics, Gambling Modes, and Problem Gambling

Player Preferences and Social Harm: An Analysis of the Relationships Between Player Characteristics, Gambling Modes, and Problem Gambling

Towards a history of critical marketing studies

Surveillance privacy and technology: contemporary Irish perspectives

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