The Routledge Handbook of Digital Consumption

Rosa Llamas is a lecturer in marketing at several business schools across Europe. She is also a mentor and consultant. Her work is based on qualitative methods, has a global approach, and aims at igniting individual and societal transformations. Russell Belk is York University Distinguished Research Professor, Royal Society of Canada Fellow, and Kraft Foods Canada Chair in Marketing at the Schulich School of Business in York University, Canada.

Part I: What’s digital? 1. Living in a Digital Society Rosa Llamas and Russell Belk 2. Digital Nomadism as Temporal Privilege Aleksandrina Atanasova, Fleura Bardhi, Giana M. Eckhardt, and Laetitia Mimoun 3. How Digitalization Blurs Boundaries, Makes Things Ungraspable, and Affects Psychological Appropriation Bernadette Kamleitner and Michail D. Kokkoris 4. Transhumanism and the Phenomenology of Cyborg Senses Vitor M. Lima 5. Researching the Black Box: A call for Methodological Diversity, Transdisciplinarity, and Creativity in Research on Smart Digital Consumption Jonas Foehr and Claas Christian Germelmann Part II: Representing the Self and Others 6. The Evolution of Online Self-presentation: From Programmable Freeform Websites to Algorithmized Templates that Encourage Commercially Exploitable Content Ashok Kumar Kaliyamurthy, Hope Jensen Schau, and Mary C. Gilly 7. Digital Identity: The Postmodern Consumer Chameleon Michael R. Solomon 8. Digital payment, ‘Venmo me’ Culture, and Sociality Jenna Drenten 9. From Blogs to Platforms: Content Landscape and Affordances Ghalia Shamayleh and Zeynep Arsel 10. Chatbots: From Eliza and Alexa to Therapy-bots and Sexbots Russell Belk 11. Robots: Friend or Foe, Master or Servant? Marat Bakpayev Part III: Researching the Digital Consumer 12. Understanding Technoculture Robert V. Kozinets 13. Critical Issues in Artificial Intelligence Algorithms and their Implications for Digital Marketing Elanor Colleoni and Daniela Corsaro 14. Utilizing Digital Reality in Intergenerational Research Pragea G. Putra, Karen V. Fernandez, and Michael S.W. Lee 15. The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Capturing Livestreamed Performances Toni Eagar, Natalie Mitchell, Kevin Thomas, and Yingnan Shi Part IV: Communicating, Interacting and Socializing 16. Considering the Impacts of Transgressive Behaviors among Interactive Online Audiences Alex Baudet, Marie Agnès Parmentier, and Eileen Fischer 17. You’ll Never Walk Alone: Socializing and Finding your Tribe in a Digital Age Bernard Cova and Laurence Dessart 18. Capitalist Subjectivity, Tinder, and the Emotionalization of the Web Eva Illouz and Dan M. Kotliar 19. They aren’t secret, they aren’t hiding and some online communities are more dangerous than ever Ekant Veer 20. A ‘Thumbs Up’ and ‘Thumbs Down’ for Thumb Culture: The Paradoxical Nature of Smartphones Katie Thompson and Anthony Patterson Part V: Using Digital 21. From techno-utopianism to personal panopticon and beyond: A call for a revised self-tracking research agenda Matthias Bode and Dorthe Brogård Kristensen 22. Transformations in digital virtual consumption Janice Denegri-Knott, Rebecca Jenkins, and Mike Molesworth 23. Consumer Decision Making in Omnichannel environments Elfriede Penz and Margaret K. Hogg 24. Patient Experience Assemblages on Digital Health Platforms Handan Vicdan and Nikhilesh Dholakia 25. Stock investing in the digital age Jonathan Schroeder and Detlev Zwick 26. How do consumers (re-)organize their lives through digital decluttering? Johanna Franziska Gollnhofer and Birte Karoline Manke Part VI: Playing, Praying, Educating and Entertaining 27. The Perpetual Traveler – Hypermobility in a Connected World Ulrike Gretzel 28. Digital Consumer Spirituality Jannsen Santana, Katharina C. Husemann, and Giana M. Eckhardt 29. Education in a digital age: Do we need more innovation in educational innovations? Pedro de Bruyckere 30. Digital Fandom (revisited): exploring the role of the hypermediated fan as trickster Clinton Lanier, Jr., C. Scott Rader, and Aubrey R. Fowler III 31. Online games: consuming experiences and interacting in virtual worlds Marlon Dalmoro, João Pedro dos Santos Fleck, and Carlos Alberto Vargas Rossi Part VII: Issues of Concern in Society and Culture 32. The Double Edge of Diversity in a Digital World Akon E. Ekpo 33. Identity Expressions of Agender Individuals in a Digital World Morgan Ketola, Schyler Selander, and Ayalla Ruvio 34. Online Privacy as Space: Concepts, Issues, and Research Avenues for Digital Consumption Ian Grant and Kathryn Waite 35. The Power of Digital Integration: The Normalization of Tracking and Surveillance Technologies Guojun (Sawyer) He, Eric Ping Hung Li, and Matt Husain 36. Online Consumer Activism 2.5: Youth at the Forefront of the Global Climate Crisis B. Yasanthi Perera, Pia A. Albinsson, and Sarita Ray Chaudhury 37. The Digital Transformation of Consumer Movements Jay M. Handelman 38. Models of Viral Propagation in Digital Contexts: How Messages and Ideas -From Internet Memes to Fake News- Created by Consumers, Bots, and Marketers Spread Tien Ee Dominic Yeo 39. "Posting sexy images and still being respected as a woman": perspectives on human and nonhuman influencers Magdalena Petersson McIntyre 40. Consumer Online (Dis)Trust: A Decade Later M. Saeid Kermani, Peter R. Darke, and Michael K. Brady Afterword: The Internet’s Effects on Consumption: Useful, Harmful, Playful John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld