Freedom calling

Keller, Margit

[journal article]

dc.contributor.author	Keller, Margit	de
dc.date.accessioned	2011-03-01T05:20:00Z	de
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-29T22:19:20Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-29T22:19:20Z
dc.date.issued	2005	de
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/22649
dc.description.abstract	This article focuses on the development of consumer culture and specifically the notion of consumer freedom in the transitional society of Estonia. Drawing on the work of Zygmunt Bauman and Don Slater as well as the notion of 'transition culture' proposed by Michael Kennedy, it investigates the importance of western goods and western notions of consumer choice in anchoring emerging conceptions of individual freedom in post-socialist countries. This theme is explored through an analysis of a consumer item with a particularly high sign value in Estonia: the mobile phone. The analysis details the transformation discourses around freedom in print advertisements for mobile telephony from 1991-2001, demonstrating how over this period the meaning of freedom as a value shifted from political and economic conceptions to an individualized discourse of consumer choice emphasizing hedonism, self-expression and leisure.	en
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Sociology & anthropology	en
dc.subject.ddc	Soziologie, Anthropologie	de
dc.subject.other	advertising; consumer culture; freedom; mobile telephony; post-socialist context
dc.title	Freedom calling	en
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	European Journal of Cultural Studies	de
dc.source.volume	8	de
dc.publisher.country	GBR
dc.source.issue	2	de
dc.subject.classoz	Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie	de
dc.subject.classoz	Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature	en
dc.subject.classoz	Wirtschaftssoziologie	de
dc.subject.classoz	Sociology of Economics	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-226495	de
dc.date.modified	2011-05-20T12:12:00Z	de
dc.rights.licence	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)	de
dc.rights.licence	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)	en
ssoar.gesis.collection	SOLIS;ADIS	de
ssoar.contributor.institution	http://www.peerproject.eu/	de
internal.status	3	de
dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.rights.copyright	f	de
dc.source.pageinfo	217-238
internal.identifier.classoz	10216
internal.identifier.classoz	10205
internal.identifier.journal	114	de
internal.identifier.document	32
internal.identifier.ddc	301
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549405051845	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Postprint	en
dc.description.pubstatus	Postprint	de
internal.identifier.licence	7
internal.identifier.pubstatus	2
internal.identifier.review	1
internal.check.abstractlanguageharmonizer	CERTAIN
internal.check.languageharmonizer	CERTAIN_RETAINED

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