Essays about: "Jenny Petersson Ivre"

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  1. 1. No good deed goes un-scripted: An Ethnographic Study on the Sustainable Smartphone Application Karma

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

    Author : Jenny Petersson Ivre; [2020]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Noting a need for a closer understanding of the discrepancy between the actions that sustainable smartphone applications encourage and the actions that the users perform, this thesis explores the implications for sustainable consumption practices. This thesis takes a sociological approach to markets, focusing on three key concepts (market devices, socio-technical scripts, qualification) to answer two questions: 1) how consumer actions are promoted and enabled in the popular consumer food-waste management application Karma; and 2) how consumers translate the actions that the application promotes. READ MORE