hijack millions of computers without any trace.
Locational privacy
: The extent to which a person's activities and movements
in the physical world are tracked by his or her devices.
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Food deserts:
Places where consumers have limited access to shops that sell
fresh, healthy food.
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Media literacy:
A consumer's ability to access, analyse, evaluate and
communicate information in a variety of forms, including print and non-print
messages.
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Functionally illiterate:
A person whose reading skills are not adequate to
carry out everyday tasks.
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Triple bottom-line orientation:
Business strategies that strive to maximise
financial, social and environmental return.
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Sustainability:
Consuming products in a way that doesn't jeopardise the
needs of future generations.
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Conscientious consumerism:
A new value that combines a focus on personal
health with a concern for global health.
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Green marketing:
A marketing strategy involving an emphasis on protecting
the natural environment.
25.
Greenwashing:
Occurs when companies make false or exaggerated claims
about how environmentally friendly their products are.
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LOHAS:
An acronym for 'Lifestyle Of Health And Sustainability'
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Deviant consumer behaviour:
Actions that violates the accepted behaviour in
a consumer context and result in harm for other customers or the
organisation.
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Bioterrorism:
A strategy to disrupt the nation's supply with the aim of
creating economic havoc.
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Cyberterrorism:
The politically or ideologically motivated use of computers
and other information technology networks and infrastructure in acts of
large-scale intimidation, disruption, property damage or physical harm.
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Consumer addiction:
A physiological and/or psychological dependency on
products or services.
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Social media addiction:
Dependency on interaction with social networking
platforms to the extent that signs of withdrawal appear if the person is
unable to connect.
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Cyberbullying:
When one or more people post malicious comments online
about someone else in a coordinated effort to harass them.
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Phantom vibration syndrome:
The tendency to habitually reach for your
mobile phone because you fell it vibrating, even if it is off.
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Compulsive consumption:
The process of repetitive, often excessive,
shopping used to relieve tension, anxiety, depression or boredom.
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Consumed consumers
: Those people who are used or exploited, whether
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