In Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser depicts a consumer society, where consumption is viewed as an integral part of the social life. Living in such a consumption-dominated context, both Dreiser and his characters in Sis...In Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser depicts a consumer society, where consumption is viewed as an integral part of the social life. Living in such a consumption-dominated context, both Dreiser and his characters in Sister Carrie are unable to avoid its great impact. Consumer culture brands great marks on them, leading them to individualism, pragmatism and hedonism. Under such a context, people are united by their purchases into the web of consumer culture.展开更多
The application of information and communications technology(ICT)in the education industry is becoming more and more extensive,and online education realized through ICT is developing in full swing.The influence of ICT...The application of information and communications technology(ICT)in the education industry is becoming more and more extensive,and online education realized through ICT is developing in full swing.The influence of ICT on online education consumer's choice behavior is the core issue of online education industry development research.The research on the interactive path and methods of information and online education consumer choice behavior is worth exploring and revealing.This study introduces the word-of-mouth factor as a new research variable under the framework of the Rational Choice Theory model(RCT)and the structural equation method to conduct empirical research and theoretical analysis to verify the validity of the hypothesis and model.The fifthGeneration mobile communication system(5 G)analyses the factors affecting online education consumer behavior choices based on the premise of ICT.Research on the path between ICT and choice behavior provides new ideas for online education consumer choice behavior research and ICT and content and provides a new scenario.This article is a cross-disciplinary research content in theory,and its innovation opens up a new path for the management of ICT research.The research results have innovative significance and value at both the theoretical and practical levels.展开更多
Purpose: Given the ubiquitous presence of the internet in our lives, many individuals turn to the web for medical information. A challenge here is that many laypersons(as "consumers") do not use professional...Purpose: Given the ubiquitous presence of the internet in our lives, many individuals turn to the web for medical information. A challenge here is that many laypersons(as "consumers") do not use professional terms found in the medical nomenclature when describing their conditions and searching the internet. The Consumer Health Vocabulary(CHV) ontology, initially developed in 2007, aimed to bridge this gap, although updates have been limited over the last decade. The purpose of this research is to implement a means of automatically creating a hierarchical consumer health vocabulary. This overall purpose is improving consumers' ability to search for medical conditions and symptoms with an enhanced CHV and improving the search capabilities of our searching and indexing tool HIVE(Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering).Design/methodology/approach: The research design uses ontological fusion, an approach for automatically extracting and integrating the Medical Subject Headings(Me SH) ontology into CHV, and further convert CHV from a flat mapping to a hierarchical ontology. The additional relationships and parent terms from Me SH allow us to uncover relationships between existing terms in the CHV ontology as well. The research design also included improving the search capabilities of HIVE identifying alternate relationships and consolidating them to a single entry.Findings: The key findings are an improved CHV with a hierarchical structure that enables consumers to search through the ontology and uncover more relationships.Research limitations: There are some cases where the improved search results in HIVE return terms that are related but not completely synonymous. We present an example and discuss the implications of this result. Practical implications: This research makes available an updated and richer CHV ontology using the HIVE tool. Consumers may use this tool to search consumer terminology for medical conditions and symptoms. The HIVE tool will return results about the medical term linked with the consumer term as well as the hierarchy of other medical terms connected to the term.Originality/value: This is a first attempt in over a decade to improve and enhance the CHV ontology with current terminology and the first research effort to convert CHV's original flat ontology structure to a hierarchical structure. This research also enhances the HIVE infrastructure and provides consumers with a simple, efficient mechanism for searching the CHV ontology and providing meaningful data to consumers.展开更多
We studied the information search behaviors of Chinese consumers of miniature automobiles. First, we identified the main sources where consumers acquire or seek information about miniature automobiles and discussed th...We studied the information search behaviors of Chinese consumers of miniature automobiles. First, we identified the main sources where consumers acquire or seek information about miniature automobiles and discussed their extent of information search. Then, based on logistic regression and optimal scaling regression of statistics, we studied the influences of characteristics of consumers of miniature automobiles on the extent of information search and on Internet usage. The results indicate that consumers often utilize four sources to obtain information about miniature automobiles. The dominant information source for consumers is their friends/family, followed by dealers, newspapers, and TV. Age, occupation, education and income significantly affect the extent of information search, but gender and city of residence do not have significant impacts. Age, city of residence, occupation, education and income produce significant influences on Internet usage. Gender has an insignificant influence on whether a consumer uses the Internet to search for information.展开更多
5 October 2013, Houston--The Houston Rockets and ZTE USA, the fastest-growing smartphone provider in the United States, announced that ZTE will be the official smartphone of the Houston Rockets for the 2013-14 NBA sea...5 October 2013, Houston--The Houston Rockets and ZTE USA, the fastest-growing smartphone provider in the United States, announced that ZTE will be the official smartphone of the Houston Rockets for the 2013-14 NBA season. This is the first partnership of its kind for ZTE globally and the first big consumer marketing push in the United States since the company entered the country 15 years ago.展开更多
The Great Gatsby was a classic of the 1920 s. The consumption phenomenon described, consumerism and its characteris-tics embodied in it were the true portrayal of society at that time. Also, the modern Chinese society...The Great Gatsby was a classic of the 1920 s. The consumption phenomenon described, consumerism and its characteris-tics embodied in it were the true portrayal of society at that time. Also, the modern Chinese society looks exactly the same. Takinghistory as a mirror, the revelation of the book could enlighten Chinese society to solve current related problems and look into the fu-ture. Mainly, the research process is to read up, think deeply, use for reference and come up with new ideas.展开更多
From the aspect of consumerism to this text analyze Sister Carrie's"American dream"destruction. The author wholly and deeply analyzes the embodiment of consumerism in Dreiser's Sister Carrie and Drei...From the aspect of consumerism to this text analyze Sister Carrie's"American dream"destruction. The author wholly and deeply analyzes the embodiment of consumerism in Dreiser's Sister Carrie and Dreiser's outlook and values under the effect of consumerism. To prove that the reason for destruction of Carrie's American dream is consumerism.展开更多
The Winter of Our Discontent is Steinbeck's last published novel, which received negative and positive criticism at homeand abroad. Persistent concern for ethics and morality as one of themes displayed by Steinbec...The Winter of Our Discontent is Steinbeck's last published novel, which received negative and positive criticism at homeand abroad. Persistent concern for ethics and morality as one of themes displayed by Steinbeck in The Winter of Our Discontent.Living in the 1950 s of America, Ethan's family were confronting a consumer society. By using the theory of literary ethical criti-cism, tracing back to ethical environment at that time, this essay aims to analyze the ethical questions that the Ethan's family facedand their ethical choices respectively.展开更多
China is the world’s leading textile and apparel producer,but as China’s economy rapidly develops,all eyes are focused on the other end of the cotton supply chain--Chinese consumers. China’s middle class (with hous...China is the world’s leading textile and apparel producer,but as China’s economy rapidly develops,all eyes are focused on the other end of the cotton supply chain--Chinese consumers. China’s middle class (with household incomes of＄8,300 to＄68,800) has grown 22% in the last two years,to reach 80 million,and is expected to increase nearly tenfold by 2020 (according to Euromonitor,July 2007).As the disposable展开更多
By the study of three great American literary works, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night and The Age of Innocence, this paper aims to give a holistic interpretation of"New Woman"and their intrinsic relatio...By the study of three great American literary works, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night and The Age of Innocence, this paper aims to give a holistic interpretation of"New Woman"and their intrinsic relationship with consumer culture in the light of Baudrillard's theories about the consumer society and the consumer culture.展开更多
The Professor's House presents the readers pictures with striking consumer culture characteristics. With abundant goods of sign values, conspicuous consumption, swelling-desire-stimulating power and the individual...The Professor's House presents the readers pictures with striking consumer culture characteristics. With abundant goods of sign values, conspicuous consumption, swelling-desire-stimulating power and the individuals' efforts to construct their identities through consumption as dominant features, consumer culture exerts negative and even devastating effects on the characters in the novel. Theories of ecocriticism shed new lights on the interpretation of consumerism reflected in the novel, especially on analyzing how the consumer culture makes the characters suffer from split personality, alienation from nature, society, and even from themselves and their spiritual ecology.展开更多
Source from Cotton Incorporated's April 2020 Lifestyle Monitor^(TM)Survey(n=500)to better assess consumer spending changes due to COVID-19 as well as consumer awareness/interest in sustainable fashion.Key takeaway...Source from Cotton Incorporated's April 2020 Lifestyle Monitor^(TM)Survey(n=500)to better assess consumer spending changes due to COVID-19 as well as consumer awareness/interest in sustainable fashion.Key takeaways are below CONSUMER SPENDING CHANGES(SHORT-TERM)·RECESSION IS HERE OR COMING:Over tWo-thirds of consumers(68%)say they believe the U.S.is in areces-sion or will be ina recession.展开更多
Perceived risk is an important concept in consumer behavior in online shopping. It impedes the adopting online shopping. A structure model with seven factors of consumer's perceived risk in online shopping is deve...Perceived risk is an important concept in consumer behavior in online shopping. It impedes the adopting online shopping. A structure model with seven factors of consumer's perceived risk in online shopping is developed in this paper. The results have the descriptive power about Chinese consumers' perceived risk in Internet shopping and provide framework for managerial use in China's e-commerce market environment.展开更多
The Sun Also Rises,as the representative work of Ernest Hemingway,had been studied from various perspectives by the researchers.This thesis focuses on the consumerism culture in the novel.The theory of consumerism cul...The Sun Also Rises,as the representative work of Ernest Hemingway,had been studied from various perspectives by the researchers.This thesis focuses on the consumerism culture in the novel.The theory of consumerism culture became a comparative⁃ly new theory after World War I and is now called consumerism.This thesis is divided into an introduction,the main body and a conclusion.The introduction shows the researches of home and abroad and comes up with the theme of consumerism revealed in The Sun Also Rises based on the researches.The main body consists of three parts.The first chapter discusses the rise of consumer⁃ism in The Sun Also Rises.By analyzing the social background and elements of consumerism,the thesis looks at the consumerism in the novel.The second chapter explores the attitudes of Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashely toward consumption as well as the con⁃sumption pattern in the novel.The last chapter discusses Hemingway’s value orientation,the pursuit for the consumption of the modern people and women as the prime consumer in contemporary society[18].The conclusion summarizes the main ideas discussed in the previous chapters and offers reflections on consumerism for contemporary China.展开更多
U.S. consumers are keenly aware of environmental issues and are concerned about the environmental friendliness of the products they buy. However, economic pressures may affect how actively shoppers seek out
The Chinese masters of the seventeenth century inspire luxury brand Chanel Some brands like Chanel continually put on the market products that carry an element of dream: an
Turkish-made apparel now costs approximately 40%more than similar products from Bangladesh,a gap that was only 15-20%a few years ago.This is creating opportunities for Bangladeshi exporters to attract consumer's a...Turkish-made apparel now costs approximately 40%more than similar products from Bangladesh,a gap that was only 15-20%a few years ago.This is creating opportunities for Bangladeshi exporters to attract consumer's attention.展开更多
文摘In Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser depicts a consumer society, where consumption is viewed as an integral part of the social life. Living in such a consumption-dominated context, both Dreiser and his characters in Sister Carrie are unable to avoid its great impact. Consumer culture brands great marks on them, leading them to individualism, pragmatism and hedonism. Under such a context, people are united by their purchases into the web of consumer culture.
基金supported by National Social Science Fund Youth Project“Research on the Group Behavior of‘Post-95’College Students Based on Complex Networks”of China(Project Number:17CKS047)。
文摘The application of information and communications technology(ICT)in the education industry is becoming more and more extensive,and online education realized through ICT is developing in full swing.The influence of ICT on online education consumer's choice behavior is the core issue of online education industry development research.The research on the interactive path and methods of information and online education consumer choice behavior is worth exploring and revealing.This study introduces the word-of-mouth factor as a new research variable under the framework of the Rational Choice Theory model(RCT)and the structural equation method to conduct empirical research and theoretical analysis to verify the validity of the hypothesis and model.The fifthGeneration mobile communication system(5 G)analyses the factors affecting online education consumer behavior choices based on the premise of ICT.Research on the path between ICT and choice behavior provides new ideas for online education consumer choice behavior research and ICT and content and provides a new scenario.This article is a cross-disciplinary research content in theory,and its innovation opens up a new path for the management of ICT research.The research results have innovative significance and value at both the theoretical and practical levels.
文摘Purpose: Given the ubiquitous presence of the internet in our lives, many individuals turn to the web for medical information. A challenge here is that many laypersons(as "consumers") do not use professional terms found in the medical nomenclature when describing their conditions and searching the internet. The Consumer Health Vocabulary(CHV) ontology, initially developed in 2007, aimed to bridge this gap, although updates have been limited over the last decade. The purpose of this research is to implement a means of automatically creating a hierarchical consumer health vocabulary. This overall purpose is improving consumers' ability to search for medical conditions and symptoms with an enhanced CHV and improving the search capabilities of our searching and indexing tool HIVE(Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering).Design/methodology/approach: The research design uses ontological fusion, an approach for automatically extracting and integrating the Medical Subject Headings(Me SH) ontology into CHV, and further convert CHV from a flat mapping to a hierarchical ontology. The additional relationships and parent terms from Me SH allow us to uncover relationships between existing terms in the CHV ontology as well. The research design also included improving the search capabilities of HIVE identifying alternate relationships and consolidating them to a single entry.Findings: The key findings are an improved CHV with a hierarchical structure that enables consumers to search through the ontology and uncover more relationships.Research limitations: There are some cases where the improved search results in HIVE return terms that are related but not completely synonymous. We present an example and discuss the implications of this result. Practical implications: This research makes available an updated and richer CHV ontology using the HIVE tool. Consumers may use this tool to search consumer terminology for medical conditions and symptoms. The HIVE tool will return results about the medical term linked with the consumer term as well as the hierarchy of other medical terms connected to the term.Originality/value: This is a first attempt in over a decade to improve and enhance the CHV ontology with current terminology and the first research effort to convert CHV's original flat ontology structure to a hierarchical structure. This research also enhances the HIVE infrastructure and provides consumers with a simple, efficient mechanism for searching the CHV ontology and providing meaningful data to consumers.
基金the Natural Science Foundation of China ( No. 70472016).
文摘We studied the information search behaviors of Chinese consumers of miniature automobiles. First, we identified the main sources where consumers acquire or seek information about miniature automobiles and discussed their extent of information search. Then, based on logistic regression and optimal scaling regression of statistics, we studied the influences of characteristics of consumers of miniature automobiles on the extent of information search and on Internet usage. The results indicate that consumers often utilize four sources to obtain information about miniature automobiles. The dominant information source for consumers is their friends/family, followed by dealers, newspapers, and TV. Age, occupation, education and income significantly affect the extent of information search, but gender and city of residence do not have significant impacts. Age, city of residence, occupation, education and income produce significant influences on Internet usage. Gender has an insignificant influence on whether a consumer uses the Internet to search for information.
文摘5 October 2013, Houston--The Houston Rockets and ZTE USA, the fastest-growing smartphone provider in the United States, announced that ZTE will be the official smartphone of the Houston Rockets for the 2013-14 NBA season. This is the first partnership of its kind for ZTE globally and the first big consumer marketing push in the United States since the company entered the country 15 years ago.
文摘The Great Gatsby was a classic of the 1920 s. The consumption phenomenon described, consumerism and its characteris-tics embodied in it were the true portrayal of society at that time. Also, the modern Chinese society looks exactly the same. Takinghistory as a mirror, the revelation of the book could enlighten Chinese society to solve current related problems and look into the fu-ture. Mainly, the research process is to read up, think deeply, use for reference and come up with new ideas.
文摘From the aspect of consumerism to this text analyze Sister Carrie's"American dream"destruction. The author wholly and deeply analyzes the embodiment of consumerism in Dreiser's Sister Carrie and Dreiser's outlook and values under the effect of consumerism. To prove that the reason for destruction of Carrie's American dream is consumerism.
文摘The Winter of Our Discontent is Steinbeck's last published novel, which received negative and positive criticism at homeand abroad. Persistent concern for ethics and morality as one of themes displayed by Steinbeck in The Winter of Our Discontent.Living in the 1950 s of America, Ethan's family were confronting a consumer society. By using the theory of literary ethical criti-cism, tracing back to ethical environment at that time, this essay aims to analyze the ethical questions that the Ethan's family facedand their ethical choices respectively.
文摘China is the world’s leading textile and apparel producer,but as China’s economy rapidly develops,all eyes are focused on the other end of the cotton supply chain--Chinese consumers. China’s middle class (with household incomes of＄8,300 to＄68,800) has grown 22% in the last two years,to reach 80 million,and is expected to increase nearly tenfold by 2020 (according to Euromonitor,July 2007).As the disposable
文摘By the study of three great American literary works, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night and The Age of Innocence, this paper aims to give a holistic interpretation of"New Woman"and their intrinsic relationship with consumer culture in the light of Baudrillard's theories about the consumer society and the consumer culture.
文摘The Professor's House presents the readers pictures with striking consumer culture characteristics. With abundant goods of sign values, conspicuous consumption, swelling-desire-stimulating power and the individuals' efforts to construct their identities through consumption as dominant features, consumer culture exerts negative and even devastating effects on the characters in the novel. Theories of ecocriticism shed new lights on the interpretation of consumerism reflected in the novel, especially on analyzing how the consumer culture makes the characters suffer from split personality, alienation from nature, society, and even from themselves and their spiritual ecology.
文摘Source from Cotton Incorporated's April 2020 Lifestyle Monitor^(TM)Survey(n=500)to better assess consumer spending changes due to COVID-19 as well as consumer awareness/interest in sustainable fashion.Key takeaways are below CONSUMER SPENDING CHANGES(SHORT-TERM)·RECESSION IS HERE OR COMING:Over tWo-thirds of consumers(68%)say they believe the U.S.is in areces-sion or will be ina recession.
文摘Perceived risk is an important concept in consumer behavior in online shopping. It impedes the adopting online shopping. A structure model with seven factors of consumer's perceived risk in online shopping is developed in this paper. The results have the descriptive power about Chinese consumers' perceived risk in Internet shopping and provide framework for managerial use in China's e-commerce market environment.
文摘The Sun Also Rises,as the representative work of Ernest Hemingway,had been studied from various perspectives by the researchers.This thesis focuses on the consumerism culture in the novel.The theory of consumerism culture became a comparative⁃ly new theory after World War I and is now called consumerism.This thesis is divided into an introduction,the main body and a conclusion.The introduction shows the researches of home and abroad and comes up with the theme of consumerism revealed in The Sun Also Rises based on the researches.The main body consists of three parts.The first chapter discusses the rise of consumer⁃ism in The Sun Also Rises.By analyzing the social background and elements of consumerism,the thesis looks at the consumerism in the novel.The second chapter explores the attitudes of Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashely toward consumption as well as the con⁃sumption pattern in the novel.The last chapter discusses Hemingway’s value orientation,the pursuit for the consumption of the modern people and women as the prime consumer in contemporary society[18].The conclusion summarizes the main ideas discussed in the previous chapters and offers reflections on consumerism for contemporary China.
文摘U.S. consumers are keenly aware of environmental issues and are concerned about the environmental friendliness of the products they buy. However, economic pressures may affect how actively shoppers seek out
文摘The Chinese masters of the seventeenth century inspire luxury brand Chanel Some brands like Chanel continually put on the market products that carry an element of dream: an
文摘Turkish-made apparel now costs approximately 40%more than similar products from Bangladesh,a gap that was only 15-20%a few years ago.This is creating opportunities for Bangladeshi exporters to attract consumer's attention.
