product categories signifying different shopping orientations; across culturally distinct regions; and across different stages …

on the Internet. Consumer-Generated Media (CGM) describes a variety of new sources of online information that are created …

Various authors have used the term consumer society with a number of different meanings, yet one common point has been … the shift of focus to the consumer ethos, which alters the everyday life of society members and their relationship to each … other and society as a whole. One's relationship to consumption determines fundamental levels of consumption and for what …

new ways using modern IT systems. Nationwide centralised databases, coupled with ubiquitous high-speed Internet access …

Estonian adult population does not use the Internet. The analysis, carried out by the research company Emor and PRAXIS Center … for Policy Studies, looked thoroughly at the reasons and motivation for not using the Internet of this particular … one third of the current non-users understand the opportunities offered by the Internet and want to take advantage of them …