Niklas Sörum
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Legitimizing sustainable game meat consumption: a discursive-visual approach to legitimacy claims Open
The marketing world has become increasingly visual in its legitimacy claims, yet much scholarship has drawn on discursive approaches to legitimation. This research extends institutional theory through a discursive-visual approach to legiti…
Materialiserad moral Open
Ethical consumption, that is, to make certain consumption choices due to personal moral beliefs and values is a growing trend and market. In this article we analyze three ethical smartphone apps developed and marketed in order to help cons…
How sociotechnical imaginaries shape consumers’ experiences of and responses to commercial data collection practices Open
How is the ongoing “datafication” in society experienced by consumers? Critical discussions regarding the impact of datafication on consumers seldom study consumers’ actual experiences. Conversely, the studies that do exist of consumers an…
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Digitalizing consumer society: equipment and devices of digital consumption Open
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Ethical consumption applications as failed market innovations: exploring consumer (non) acceptance of ‘quasi’ market devices Open
In this paper, I conceptualise ethical consumption applications (ECAs) as market innovations inflected in processes of configuring market actors and market (re)framings. The introduction of ECAs through the work of civil society is not onl…
Agencing ethical consumers: smartphone apps and the socio-material reconfiguration of everyday life Open
The aim of this paper is to describe and explain how smartphone apps,designed to assist consumers in making informed ethical choices andgreening their everyday practices, enable and shape ethical consumption.Taking a socio-material approac…