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644 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2012)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0644 and id is 1 raw text is: Communication, Consumers, and Citizens: Revisiting the Politics of Consumption By DHAVAN V. SHAH, LEWIS A. FRIEDLAND, CHRIS WELLS, YOUNG MIE KIM, and HERNANDO ROJAS The year 2011 was defined by the intersection of poli- tics and economics: the Wisconsin protests, the Occupy Movement, anti-austerity demonstrations, the Buffett Rule, and so on. These events drew attention to the role of politics in the erosion of labor power, the rise of inequality, and the excesses of overconsumption. Moving beyond periodic and dutiful action directed at an increasingly unresponsive government, citizens tested the boundaries of what we consider civic engagement by embracing personalized forms of life- style politics enacted in everyday life and often directed at the market. These issues are the focus of this volume, which we divide into four sections. The first section attempts both to situate consumption in politics as a contemporary phenomenon and to view it through a wider historical lens. The second section advances the notion of sustainable citizenship at the individual/group level and the societal/institutional level, and understands consumption as socially situ- ated and structured. Extending this thinking, the third section explores various forms of conscious consump- tion and relates them to emerging modes of activism and engagement. The fourth section questions assumptions about the effectiveness of the citizen- consumer and the underlying value of political con- sumerism and conscious consumption. We conclude by distilling six core themes from this collection for future work. Keywords: inequality; political consumption; con- scious consumption; overconsumption; consumer debt; information and commu- nication technologies The year 2011 was defined by the intersec- tion of economics and politics. When Fred Shapiro, associate librarian at Yale, selected Dhavan V Shah is Louis A. & Mary E. Maier-Bascom Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where he also serves as director of the Mass Communication Research Center (MCRC). He holds appointments in Political Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering, and serves as scientific director and core leader on various grants in the Center for Health Enhancement System Studies (CHESS). His research concerns the social psychology of DOI: 10.1177/0002716212456349 ANNALS, AAPSS, 644, November 2012 6

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