Communication, Consumers, and Citizens

1 Communication, Consumers, and Citizens: Revisiting the Politics of Consumption

Dhavan V. Shah, Lewis A. Friedland, Chris Wells, Young Mie Kim, and Hernando Rojas

2 The Personalization of Politics: Political Identity, Social Media, and Changing Patterns of Participation

W. Lance Bennett

3 The Politics of Consumer Debt: U.S. State Policy and the Rise of Investment in Consumer Credit, 1920-2008

Louis Hyman

4 Working-Class Cast: Images of the Working Class in Advertising, 1950-2010

Erika L. Paulson and Thomas C. O'Guinn

5 What Does It Mean to Be a Good Citizen? Citizenship Vocabularies as Resources for Action

Kjerstin Thorson

6 Sustainable Citizenship and the New Politics of Consumption

Michele Micheletti and Dietlind Stolle

7 Political Consumerism and New Forms of Political Participation: The Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale in Italy

Paolo R. Graziano and Francesca Forno

8 Gender and Generation in the Social Positioning of Taste

Nam-Jin Lee, Christine L. Garlough, Lewis A. Friedland, and Dhavan V. Shah

9 The Shifting Sands of Citizenship: Toward a Model of the Citizenry in Life Politics

Young Mie Kim

10 Does Changing a Light Bulb Lead to Changing the World? Political Action and the Conscious Consumer

Margaret M. Willis and Juliet B. Schor

11 Buying In to Social Change: How Private Consumption Choices Engender Concern for the Collective

Lucy Atkinson

12 From Concerned Shopper to Dutiful Citizen: Implications of Individual and Collective Orientations toward Political Consumerism

Melissa R. Gotlieb and Chris Wells

13 Examining Overconsumption, Competitive Consumption, and Conscious Consumption from 1994 to 2004:

Disentangling Cohort and Period Effects

D. Jasun Carr, Melissa R. Gotlieb, Nam-Jin Lee, and Dhavan V. Shah

14 Constructing Sustainable Consumption: From Ethical Values to the Cultural Transformation of Unsustainable Markets

Douglas B. Holt

15 The Civic Consequences of "Going Negative": Attack Ads and Adolescents' Knowledge, Consumption, and Participation

Ming Wang, Itay Gabay, and Dhavan V. Shah

16 Between Complacency and Paternalism: Ethical Controversies over Influencing Political and Consumer Choice

Thomas Hove

17 Consuming Ourselves to Dearth: Escalating Inequality and Public Opinion

Lewis A. Friedland, Hernando Rojas, and Leticia Bode