Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10513166 Journal of Aging Studies 2012 12 Pages PDF
Abstract
► The paper features a close reading of countdown blogs on the thirtieth birthday. ► The blogs illustrate a sense of age awareness in young adults. ► The blogs function as a coping mechanism and use an economic rhetoric. ► Foucault's “entrepreneur of the self” and consumer culture are considered. ► The countdown blogs are used to complement Foucault's concept.
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