"You Are What You Buy"

This video summarizes the previous two post. Enjoy! 

Review: iPod is the New Culture

 

From tape players to CD player to the new improved iPod leaving everyone wanting one. Below is a link showing us how an iPod may be the new evil in consumer's culture. The iPod Touch brings customers the best in entertainment on the go with a thin, sleek design and a number of key multimedia features.

Fighting Over an iPod Left Two Men Dead

 Duped by corporations, marketers, advertisers etc. into being passive consumers. Consumers are manipulated, disempowered and distracted by the producers. People say, "what you buy is who you are" what does this quote mean? 

Consumerism Culture

             Consumption is the selection of goods and services which is purchase, use reuse and or disposal. The concept of consumption is more than the goods it's about the ideas, services and knowledge such as, places, shopping, eating, fashion etc... which can all be consumed. In modern day society, consumerism is built on the concept of freedom which has been engrained into the culture and socialzation processes of western nations and individuals are not free from the limit that a capitalist economic system places on the members of its society.