2020
DOI: 10.1177/0276146720978257
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Consumer Choicemaking and Choicelessness in Hyperdigital Marketspaces

Abstract: Technologies, especially Internet-based digital ones, are reshaping choice processes – actual considerations and actions, as well as perceptions of these – in massive, often fundamental, ways. In this paper, our goal is to explore choice processes in general, and especially choice processes in hyperdigital marketspaces (i.e., with massively, pervasively interconnected things) with examples drawn from U.S. macro consumption contexts. We start with a short review of discourses on choice and choicelessness and th… Show more

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“…Not only does it require one to accept that the choices and identities of consumers are illusions (e.g. Dholakia et al, 2021), but also that the choices and identities of critical consumers and even interpretive marketing researchers are too. As Gabriel (2015) notes: ‘remove identity and choice becomes empty, remove choice and identity is reduced to destiny’ (p. 29).…”
Section: The Utopian Optimism Of Marketing Theory: Agentic Critical A...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Not only does it require one to accept that the choices and identities of consumers are illusions (e.g. Dholakia et al, 2021), but also that the choices and identities of critical consumers and even interpretive marketing researchers are too. As Gabriel (2015) notes: ‘remove identity and choice becomes empty, remove choice and identity is reduced to destiny’ (p. 29).…”
Section: The Utopian Optimism Of Marketing Theory: Agentic Critical A...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As noted by Guattari ([1989] 2014: 1), 'the contents of subjectivity depend more and more on a multitude of machinic systems'. For instance, the introduction of sophisticated segmentation techniques allows marketers to divide individuals into profitable patterns of behaviour (Cluley and Brown, 2015), while increasingly automated choice architectures allow algorithms to decide what choices consumers can see (Dholakia et al, 2020). From a psychoanalytic perspective, such technological developments exert asubjective transformations, without needing conscious awareness to exert their effect.…”
Section: Machines Configuring Machines: Situating the Machinic Unconsciousmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Tämänkaltaisesta käyttäjien seurannasta, datankeruusta sekä toimintaan vaikuttamisesta on käyty viime aikoina sekä akateemista (esim. Zuboff 2019;Dholakia et al 2021) että yleistajuista keskustelua (esim. Orlowski 2020).…”
Section: Piilevä Normatiivisuus Ja Algoritminen Hallintaunclassified