65 research outputs found

    Negotiating Agency in the Elderly Consumption Ensemble

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    Over 18% of Americans over the age of 75 require assistance with daily consumption activities. Assistance is often provided by family, friends, and paid care providers in changing configurations over time. We refer to these people together with the elderly consumer as the elderly consumption ensemble. Through depth interviews with ensemble members, this research investigates how consumer agency operates within the ensemble, including how it is constrained, enhanced, contested, and shared by elderly consumers, family members, and market providers. Contributions include adding to our understanding of the nature of consumer agency and to the socially embedded nature of consumption

    Prospectus, January 23, 2020

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    GOUGH NAMED HEAD COACH, Clean Energy Act Proposed, Why the Tension Between Iran and US?, Faculty Spare Time for Bowling, Meet the Staff: Scott Landells, Black Queens Rock Event Feb. 3, Parkland Basketball Crushes Malcom Xhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_2020/1000/thumbnail.jp

    Prospectus, January 30, 2020

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    WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT CANNABIS USE, Prospectus Welcomes Professor Watt, Parkland Theatre Brings Home Award, Meet the Staff: Michelle Barnhart, Black History Month Events Set for February, Perimeter Road to Release Fourth Singles Series Mid-Februaryhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_2020/1001/thumbnail.jp

    Curating a Consumption Ideology: Platformization and Gun Influencers on Instagram

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    This study explores how a platform enables social media influencers to promulgate a consumption ideology. We show how gun influencers, or “gunfluencers,” use Instagram to link products, activities, and meanings to Second Amendment ideology – a gun-centric belief system in the United States colloquially known as “2A ideology.” Through a qualitative study of 25 Instagram gunfluencers, we identify a process of curating a consumption ideology wherein social media influencers employ four curatorial tactics: glamourizing, demystifying, victimizing, and tribalizing. Findings suggest gunfluencers extend audiences and leverage algorithms to prescribe and model how supporters of 2A ideology should look, act, speak, feel, and consume. Our research contributes to understanding how consumption ideologies are promulgated in a digital, platformized world. In the context of U.S. gun culture, implications address the role of platformization in supporting gun companies’ promotional efforts, despite government- and platform-based restrictions, and the political dimensions of influencer and consumer cultures

    Prospectus, October 17, 2019

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    JESSICA GONDECK: ENTERPRISING MACHINGES AT GIERTZ GALLERY; Club Latino active on campus; The Parkland Library fosters anonymous discussion; Parkland partners with Public Health Flu Clinic; Black Student Success Project and Parkland Police hold event; COM teacher hosts Analog Hour on WPCDhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_2019/1045/thumbnail.jp

    Prospectus, February 13, 2020

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    THE SCIENCE OF LOVE; Love is in the air; Perimeter Road to host second annual music festival this May; Letter to the editor; Jacarra Lee receives Outstanding Black Student Award; Study abroad deadlines quickly approaching; Black History Month figure; Arthur Ashe; Support soars for Illini Basketballhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_2020/1003/thumbnail.jp

    Robust Airline Schedule Planning: Minimizing Propagated Delay in an Integrated Routing and Crewing Framework

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    Prospectus, October 31, 2019

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    PARKLAND LAUNCHES WORKFORCE EQUITY PROGRAM; Local food pantries help feed families; Board of Trustees get updates on Carl D. Perkins Grant; Student leaders attend ICCSAA Conference; Traditions and superstitions through faculty eyes; New Actors’ Studio Series at Parkland; Prints, jackets, and more on fall fashion; Emma Fleming nominated for Lincoln Laureate Awardhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_2019/1047/thumbnail.jp
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