From the outside in: consumer anti-choice and policy implications in the mobile gaming market

Jouan de Kervenoael, Ronan and Palmer, M. and Hallsworth, A. (2012) From the outside in: consumer anti-choice and policy implications in the mobile gaming market. (Accepted/In Press)

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Abstract

Significant growth in mobile media consumption has prompted a call to better understand the socio-cultural and policy dimensions of consumer choices. Contrary to industry and technology led analysis, this study argues that to guide consumer choice and innovation via regulatory policies requires an understanding of both ex-ante as well as in ex-post consumption conditions. This study examines mobile phone gaming to uncover how consumer anti-choice shapes decision-making as a framework for closely interrogating the ways in which policy concerns impact on consumers‘ behavior. Through eleven focus groups (n=62), the study empirically identifies voluntary, intentional, and positive consumer anti-choice behaviors all of which impact policy initiatives when consumers, both gamers and non-gamers, self-regulate their behaviors. Findings point to four types of policy implication: regulating the self-regulated, understanding anti-choice, boundary-setting and including the selfexcluded.
Item Type: Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Sabancı Business School
Sabancı Business School > Marketing
Depositing User: Ronan Jouan de Kervenoael
Date Deposited: 29 Nov 2012 22:59
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2019 14:53
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/20297

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