Kelly Paxman's List: Diigo Assignment: How has shopping shaped our world?

The book explores the reason we shop and the history of shopping. This will be helpful when explaining how shopping has changed society.

This article from The Guardian discusses how retail giants such as Tesco are slowly buying out smaller, more specialist stores. The article explains the negative affects of globalisation which I want to focus on in my essay.

This book acts as a guide to understand how consumers think and by knowing the psychological reasons behind shopping behaviour, it will enable me to discuss how consuming has taken over our lives.

This journal explores the new forms of shopping and how we are now 'social shopping'.

This book describes the reasons why consumption has become a vital part of contemporary culture.

This short article describes how Britain's spending has changed since the 1970's. This source is useful for some background information and statistics about spending in modern Britain.

As the title suggests the book argues the positives that globalisation has had on the world, and in terms of my essay response, it will help me to create a more balanced argument.

This piece discusses the book "All Consuming" by Neal Lawson. It argues that the authors views of the contemporary world of consumerism are at now out of date since the global recession. I think this will benefit my own work because it is looks at the issues surrounding over consumption from a different angle.

This article focuses on the change that the internet has had on the worlds shopping behaviour. Although The Independent, being a broadsheet newspaper it is still not a credible source. It does, however clearly explain the shift in the everyday shopping experience.

This series of short clips explains how shopping has literally taken over the world and believe that this source will be helpful when discussing the effects that the consumer culture has had on society.

This book talks about how shopping has become a way of life and links in perfectly with the question of how shopping shapes our world.

This film approaches the problem of over-consumption in the USA, especially around the Christmas period. It investigates large corporation practices from all across the country. Although very biased, I think this will be helpful when discussing how society has reacted to the consumerist culture.

This book focuses on how consumerism is now accepted as a part of everyday life. I chose to source this book as it discusses how consumerism holds such importance in our lives.

This article reviews the book by Jagdish N. Bhagwati, "In defence of Globalization" and dismisses lots of the writers arguments. I believe it is good to have both sides of the argument, because when I come to answer my question, my response will hopefully be well balanced too.

This article discusses how consumerism and advertising has influenced more and more architecture to be centred around spending. I want to use this source as it focuses on a different aspect of consumerism and shows just how it affects many aspects of our lives.

This book investigates the effects the internet has had on the retail industry and will help me to discuss the many aspects that shopping has had an affect on.

This segment from BBC radio explores the way in which small companies take advantage of how globalisation can expand its business world wide.

(page 99-115) This chapter focuses on how we use consumption to communicate with each other and to influence others. This links in well with how we have let shopping shape the way we live.

This paper contains useful statistics and figures of how internet shopping has changed revenue within companies and how our shopping habits have changed. This is a helpful article to reference from as the statistics are well cited.

This details the changes in the physical act of shopping and how technology has meant that shopping is more of an experience than a necessity.