Category: Blog
The rules of engagement: how to motivate consumers to engage with branded mobile apps
Stocchi discusses her research with Michaelidou, Pourazad & Micevski, revealing some important steps that marketers can follow to make the most of the engagement opportunities through branded mobile apps.
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Professional Knowing – Adjusting the Lens towards the Marketing Practitioner
Nicole Gross and Mikko Laamanen ethnographically explore the knowledge that practitioners hold and share about marketing, and discuss what the marketing discipline can learn from professional knowing in practice.
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How do children learn about media in Iran?
Kordrostami discusses her article with Vijayalakshmi & Laczniak investigating children’s media behaviour and parental concerns and mediation styles in Iran.
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Do consumers really care about corporate reputation?
Paul Burke, Grahame Dowling and Edward Wei examine how much value consumers place on corporate reputation against other product features when evaluating products.
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Breaking Taboos through Online Displays of the Sexual Self
Ekant Veer and Maja Golf-Papez investigate the way in which technology is being used to mediate sexual experiences between individuals and larger online communities.
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What can binge-watching tell us about escapism?
Scott Jones, James Cronin and Maria Piacentini use videography to conduct a micro-ethnographic engagement with consumers’ binge-watching experiences of the web-TV series House of Cards, exploring what they consider to be the “extended frontiers” of escapism.
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Five reasons why Game of Thrones satisfies our needs
Tom van Laer discusses his research with Luca Visconti & Stephanie Feiereisen into the need for narrative, finding five motivations for consuming stories varying from Game of Thrones specifically to other books, documentaries and films, to paintings and frescos, to music and novels.
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Anti-consumption in crisis
Andreas Chatzidakis and Pauline Maclaran discuss their collaborative videography about Skoros, an anti-consumerist collective in Athens, Greece.
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Why Marketers Should 💓 Emojis but 🐝 Aware of Potential Pitfalls
Jing Ge and Ulrike Gretzel establish that emojis are a new form of visual communication that can help marketers and influencers grab social media users’ attention and elicit engagement.
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Doing auto-netnography on online communities
Dino Villegas proposes a 6-step Journey Guide for Auto-Netnography that can be used in online communities in social media by practitioners, organisations and scholars.
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Are global brands selling whiteness?
Judy Foster Davis, in a critical analysis of 75 academic studies and books covering periods from the 1800s to the present, questions whether marketers perpetuate racism by selling “whiteness.”
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Organizational ambidexterity: What is it and why should we care?
Mathew Hughes discusses organizational ambidexterity, presenting a comprehensive compilation of analysis about this crucial issue, and his 17 burning research questions that need urgent answers
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