Well-Being and Children in a Consumer Society

Brusdal, Ragnhild

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9063-8_58

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“…Activists like Susan Linn (2008) and Sue Palmer (2006), as well as researchers including Richard Layard and Judy Dunn (2009), are worried about the current state of childhood and argue that extensive commerce threatens the lives of children today. Their arguments fit well with a view of childhood in which children should learn to wait and postpone pleasures, for the sake of increasing the happiness of life in a wider sense (Binkley 2014: 59ff; see also Brusdal & Frønes 2014: 1440.…”

Section: Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 67%

“…Children do not -and are not required to -accept this for the sake of waiting as such. Waiting is consequently not related to an ideal that children should postpone pleasures that are available for increasing the happiness of life in a wider sense (Binkley 2014: 59ff; see also Brusdal & Frønes 2014: 1440. There is no focus on the moralism of waiting, or as an explicit part of an educational agenda.…”

Section: Bodily Possibilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Family theme parks, happiness and children’s consumption : From roller-coasters to Pippi Longstocking

Cardell¹

2015

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Section: Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 67%

Section: Bodily Possibilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Family theme parks, happiness and children’s consumption : From roller-coasters to Pippi Longstocking

Cardell¹

2015

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“…Fantasy nicely leads into the category of popular culture as many of the movies and television shows made for children make use of the fantasy genre. Increasingly children have become consumers in regards to their socialization in modern societies (Brusdal & Frønes, 2014). The children in Nigeria are no different, the majority of students attending the private school in Abuja come from affluent homes and thus have access to television and movies that reproduce children's stories for consumption.…”

Section: Popular Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This example of attachment fits well with Campbell's (1987) concept of the "new hedonistic consumer" which describes a person who consumes experiences. The objects of consumption thus make there way into the everyday experiences of children and ultimately become examples of cultural and social capital (Brusdal & Frønes, 2014). Children's television and movies continually made appearances in the children's stories as both a category of storytelling (or retelling) and as characters within the story.…”

Section: Popular Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Nigerian Children's Stories: A Cultural Perspective

Santyr¹

2022

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This paper explores the narrative construction of experience of Nigerian children through the stories they told while participating in a variation of Vivian Gussin Paley’s story-telling/storyacting exercise. Two theoretical approaches guided this research; narrative theory and the strength of children’s perspectives. Bruner’s theory of narrative construction is used as a theoretical framework for understanding children’s cultural participation. A sociology of childhood perspective is used to ground the research method and prioritize the child’s voice. Stories were collected from 3-5-year-old children attending a private school in Abuja, Nigeria. From the stories collected 6 story types were identified and 10 themes emerged within and between each story type. Of the 10 themes 4 of the themes were analyzed for cultural relevance and examples of cultural reproduction. The results of this study contribute to the ongoing research in children’s cultural participation and narrative construction of experience broadly, and to Nigerian children’s storytelling and perspectives, specifically.

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Auditing the impact of artificial intelligence on the ability to have a good life: using well-being measures as a tool to investigate the views of undergraduate STEM students

Lillywhite

Wolbring

2023

AI & Soc

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AI/ML increasingly impacts the ability of humans to have a good life. Various sets of indicators exist to measure well-being/the ability to have a good life. Students play an important role in AI/ML discussions. The purpose of our study using an online survey was to learn about the perspectives of undergraduate STEM students on the impact of AI/ML on well-being/the ability to have a good life. Our study revealed that many of the abilities participants perceive to be needed for having a good life were part of the well-being/ability to have a good life indicator lists we gave to participants. Participants perceived AI/ML to have and continue to have the most positive impact on the ability to have a good life for disabled people, elderly people, and individuals with a high income and the least positive impact for people of low income and countries from the global south. Regarding indicators of well-being and the ability to have a good life given to participants, we found a significant techno-positive sentiment. 30% of respondents selected the purely positive box for 28 of the indicators and none did so for the purely negative box. For 52 indicators, the purely negative was below 10% (not counting the 0%) and for 10 indicators, none selected purely negative. Our findings suggest that our questions might be valuable tools to develop an inventory of STEM and other students’ perspectives on the implications of AI/ML on the ability to have a good life.

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Well-Being and Children in a Consumer Society

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

Family theme parks, happiness and children’s consumption : From roller-coasters to Pippi Longstocking

Family theme parks, happiness and children’s consumption : From roller-coasters to Pippi Longstocking

Nigerian Children's Stories: A Cultural Perspective

Auditing the impact of artificial intelligence on the ability to have a good life: using well-being measures as a tool to investigate the views of undergraduate STEM students

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