Design, Sound and Vision in Midcentury Media
Call for submissions to ‘Design, Sound and Vision in Midcentury Media’, the 8th Kern Conference on Visual Communication due to take place at Rochester Institute of Technology in April 2018. Abstracts by January 15, 2018 Read More
Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America
Announcing the publication of a new book by Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder, published by MIT Press in August 2017: […]
The CFRM Toolkit: Methods for understanding consumers in a changing world of finance
Consumer finance globally is undergoing a process of rapid change. How can we adapt our research methods to understand changing consumer behaviour? The newly-launched CFRM Toolkit reviews cutting-edge methods in consumer finance research. Read More
New Book: The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach
Announcing a major new book by Joel Stillerman, proposing a global approach to the sociological study of consumption. Read More
‘Plastic Water’ – new book by Hawkins, Potter and Race
News on ‘Plastic Water’ – a new book by Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter and Kane Race which looks at how exactly branded bottles of water have insinuated themselves into our daily lives Read More
Learning to talk like an urban woodsman
Jonathan Schroeder on a recent article in Consumption Markets and Culture that provides a parody of an ‘urban lumberjack’ brand Read More
Consumption Markets & Culture Best Paper award, 2014
Consumption Markets & Culture announces its Best Paper awards for 2014, with Nicholas Carah’s paper on how affective labour helps create brands and Andrew Higson’s paper on the diversity of nostalgia coming at out as winners Read More
Liquid Retail: Cultural Perspectives on Marketplace Transformation
Call for papers for Special Issue of Consumption, Markets & Culture on ‘Liquid Retail: Cultural Perspectives on Marketplace Transformation’. Deadline March 2016. Read More
Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies, edited by Dan Cook and J. Michael Ryan has just been published Read More
