TY - BOOK AU - Roberts,Candice D. AU - Lascity,Myles Ethan TI - Consumer Identities: Agency, Media and Digital Culture SN - 9781789380453 AV - HF5415.32 .C667 2019 U1 - 306.3 PY - 2019/// CY - Bristol PB - Intellect, Limited KW - Consumer behavior-Social aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Section I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Branding Desire: Strategies of Consumer Affectation in Early Classical Hollywood Film -- Chapter 2: The PushmiPullu of Fandom -- Chapter 3: MySpace Music's Pivotal Role in the Digitalization of Music Culture -- Section II: Emerging Dynamics in Contemporary Consumerism -- Chapter 4: A Qualitative Comparison of Mad Men Fans in New Zealand and Italy -- Chapter 5: "This Is so Bad, We Have to Watch It": Acquiring Subcultural Capital through Oppositional Viewing Strategies -- Chapter 6: The Cannibals: Consuming Celebrity through Digital Mourning -- Chapter 7: Brick by Brick: De/Reconstructing the Children's Animated Film Genre -- Section III: Ongoing Tensions of Structure and Agency in Consumer Identities -- Chapter 8: I Protest! A Postcolonial Critique of Media Fan Activism in a Globalized World -- Chapter 9: Big Data and Twitter: Finding the Stepping Stones in Consumer Communications -- Chapter 10: Ethical Consumerism in the Emerging EU Digital Contract Legislation -- Notes on Contributors -- Notes on Editors -- Index -- Back Cover N2 - Consumer Identities explores the notion of agency by tracing the role and activities of consumers from the pre-Internet age into the possible future. Using an overview of the historical creation of consumer identity, the collection demonstrates that active consumption is not merely a product of the digital age; it has always been a means by which a person can develop identity UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5719849 ER -