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Diseña, 2023 This contribution sheds light on discarded electronics repair in Accra, Ghana. After placing these practices in dialogue with the Western and Eurocentric narratives around the materiality of digital interactions and infrastructure, it delves into two ...
Cyrus Khalatbari
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An architectural query of Anthropocene Era: Planned obsolescence
Journal of Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies, 2023 After Modernity, the human has become the subject, and the world redefined by the human has turned into a painting. However, the efforts of human subjectivity to reveal the world in the Anthropocene Era, with negative practices such as the “planned ...
H.gül Aydın, Emel Birer
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Consumers’ Knowledge and Conscious Level About Planned Obsolescence: A Qualitative Study
İzmir İktisat Dergisi, 2021 Yaklaşık yüz yıldır var olan planlı eskitme stratejisinin iki önemli güdüleyicisi vardır. Bunlardan biri büyümeci ekonomi ve küresel rekabet koşullarında karar veren işletmelerken diğeri tüketim kültürü içinde sürekli “yeni” beklentileri olan ...
Melek Aydın Kanlıtepe, Engin Özgül
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Unplanned obsolescence: consumer’s attitudes and perceptions of lifestyle brands in Durban, South Africa [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2016 Planned obsolescence has become a strategy adopted by large corporations, for products to be produced with surprisingly short useful life spans. These shorter than expected product life spans ensure that consumers make regular repeat purchases of their ...
John Amolo, Andrisha Beharry-Ramraj
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Cinergie, 2021 “Survivor holograms” and a VR rendition of the Majdanek concentration camp are two recent examples of the urgent effort to preserve the experience of Holocaust survivors in the “post-witness era.” These innovations, however, deny the tension between the ...
Neta Alexander
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Connexe, 2023 A small but committed community of Czech hobbyists maintains a large collection of socialist-era domestic appliances, including televisions, radios, refrigerators, and washing machines, repairing them and displaying them in informal exhibits.
Julia Mead
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Integrating Emotional Attachment and Sustainability in Electronic Product Design
Challenges, 2013 Current models for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) products encourage frequent product replacement with newer versions that offer only minor incremental improvements. This pattern, named planned obsolescence, diminishes user experience and
Alex Lobos, Callie W. Babbitt
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Planned Obsolescence, Total Quality, Zero Defects and Global Competition
Symphonya, 2018 A global firm's success is conditioned by its ability to manage the system of intangible corporate assets (corporate culture, corporate identity, and information system) and intangible product assets (product design, brand equity and pre/after-sales ...
Silvio M. Brondoni
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Planned obsolescence: publishing, technology and the future of the academy, de Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Texto Livre: Linguagem e Tecnologia, 2013 Resenha por Pollyanna de Mattos Moura Vecchio/CEFET-MG.
Pollyanna de Mattos Moura Vecchio
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Defects of Smartphones reported by users in social media and questionnaires
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 The main aim of this article is to identify the most frequent damage of Smartphones and problems reported by users in a questionnaire and on social media.
Kostek Robert, Samek Katarzyna
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