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Symbolic Drivers of Unsustainable Mass Consumption: Embracing and Resisting Consumerism

Sociologica
This theoretical article contributes with a theoretical model to explore and understand the role of cultural and symbolic drivers behind (un)sustainable patterns and volumes of consumption.
Magnus Boström
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Symbolic BDD and ADD Algorithms for Energy Games [PDF]

Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2016
Energy games, which model quantitative consumption of a limited resource, e.g., time or energy, play a central role in quantitative models for reactive systems.
Shahar Maoz, Or Pistiner, Jan Oliver Ringert   +2 more
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Advertising design and symbolic consumption

Manuscript
The research aims to conceptualize advertising design as an idea that expresses the essence and specificity of the phenomenon within the framework of the symbolic meanings of consumption. Advertising graphic design serves as a communication project aimed at the consumer – an appeal – and a method of signifying products, services, and companies within ...
Victor Olegovich Pigulevskiy, Ludmila Anatolievna Mirskaya   +1 more
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CONSUMPTION AS A SOCIAL STATUS SYMBOL IN STRUCTURALISM

Krasnoyarsk Science, 2014
The article looks at the basic theoretical concepts of the political economy of the sign (structuralism, postmodernity) and their development in the theory of power based on the work by J. Baudrillard ‘For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign’.
N. D. Naydenov, T. A. Kirosova
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A study on commodity criticism from the perspective of marxist semiotics

Trans/Form/Ação
Marxist semiotics provides a comprehensive and critical framework for understanding and challenging the contemporary information society’s socioeconomic dynamics.
Yi Li, Xinpeng Wang
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Generalised Regression Hypothesis Induction for Energy Consumption Forecasting

Energies, 2019
This work addresses the problem of energy consumption time series forecasting. In our approach, a set of time series containing energy consumption data is used to train a single, parameterised prediction model that can be used to predict future values ...
R. Rueda, M. P. Cuéllar, M. Molina-Solana, Y. Guo, M. C. Pegalajar   +4 more
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A symbolic–visual advertising framework for engaging China’s generation Z in sustainable consumption

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
In response to intensifying global environmental concerns, sustainable consumption has become a critical agenda in both academic inquiry and advertising practice.
Yan Gu, Rosalam Che Me, Ernesto Pujazon, Yanan Feng   +3 more
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The symbolic consumption processes associated with 'low-calorie' and 'low-sugar' alcohol products and Australian women. [PDF]

Health Promot Int, 2023
Pitt H, McCarthy S, Keric D, Arnot G, Marko S, Martino F, Stafford J, Thomas S.   +7 more
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Travel trophies. For an anthropology of souvenirs

PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural, 2006
The souvenir object is an undisputed, though not exclusive, ingredient of the tourist landscape both present and past; in fact, the souvenir product is universally associated with tourism.
Saida Palou Rubio
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Consumption dreams: how night dreams reveal the colonization of subjectivity by the imaginary of consumerism

Athenea Digital, 2013
In this article I offer an overview of my doctoral dissertation, which studied the social imaginary of consumerism, and the psychological subjectivity it produces, through the dream - as both a leitmotif or thematic lens, and the empirical object of ...
Marlon Xavier
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