According to “life coach and agony aunt” Pam Spurr, internet addiction isn’t just for unemployed, Warcraft-playing schlubs anymore. This phenomenon can also affect young women. Pam Spurr’s article in the Daily Mail starts off describing one of her clients, Anne who is “attractive, well-educated” and a “smart, savvy, career woman.” Spurr writes that: “Rather than spending [...]
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Latest Internet Casualties: Hot Girls
Posted in addiction, Concerns with Consumerism, Online Shopping, women on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Consumer Hegemony: What This Is All About
Posted in addiction, Concerns with Consumerism, Online Shopping on February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As we learned in Dr. Strangelove’s class, hegemonic power is something we can’t escape. There always has to be a dominant power that influences the rest of us. We can say that advertisement, and more specific online consumerism exerts cultural hegemony. By nature it has to because consumerism works on the idea that “you must [...]
