Ethical consumption mobile phone apps are increasingly popular. These apps allow consumers to scan the barcodes of products they are considering purchasing and determine whether or not they align with their ethics. App technologies are often applauded for their potential to provide consumers with targeted, crowd‐sourced information about products while shopping and to foster more political, and less individualistic, consumption practices by connecting users to one another and to campaigns. There is a growing field of scholarship conceptually examining the role of information and digital technologies in ethical consumption. However, there is little empirical research on how consumers engage with ethical consumption apps in everyday ways. Drawing on an in‐depth study with 21 participants, this paper explores how app use mediates people's experiences of ethical consumption. We contend that the app design structures and limits how individuals engage in ethically motivated consumption and influences their conceptualizations of ethical consumption as a political practice. We conclude by illustrating that critically examining what it means to be “ethical” in a digital world is a crucial area of research for geographers, particularly as these ethics play out through the everyday use of mobile technologies.

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道德消费？有一个应用程序。数字技术和日常消费习惯

符合道德规范的消费手机应用程序越来越受欢迎。这些应用程序使消费者能够扫描他们正在考虑购买的产品的条形码，并确定它们是否符合其道德规范。应用程序技术因其在购物时向消费者提供有针对性的，众包信息的潜力而广受赞誉，并通过将用户彼此联系并参与活动来培养更多的政治性和较少个人主义的消费习惯。从概念上研究信息和数字技术在道德消费中的作用的学者越来越多。但是，很少有关于消费者如何日常使​​用道德消费应用的实证研究。本文基于对21位参与者的深入研究，探讨了应用使用如何介导人们的 的道德消费经验。我们认为，该应用程序的设计构成并限制了个人参与出于道德动机的消费的方式，并限制了他们将道德消费的概念化作为一种​​政治实践。最后，我们通过举例说明，批判性地研究数字世界中“道德”的含义对地理学家而言是至关重要的研究领域，尤其是随着这些道德在日常使用移动技术中逐渐发展起来时。