The Routledge Handbook of Digital Consumption

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

Biography

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.

"Llamas and Belk have brought together an assemblage of cutting-edge academic essays that examine virtually every aspect of the modern digital consumer. Much has changed in the past few years and it’s all here. The volume is a wide-ranging conceptual and topical feast of how the latest advances and future developments in the digital world impact today’s consumer. The menu includes AI-robot-consumer interactions, Tinder, digital fandom, non-human influencers, digital spirituality, the technoculture of Zoom and anti-vaxxers, and so much more. Researchers, teachers, and practitioners alike will come away updated, challenged, and inspired."

Tom Novak, George Washington University, USA

　

"Worldwide, the dominance of the digital economy represents the most significant paradigm shift of the 21st century. This book provides the vital knowledge to help academics, practitioners, pundits, and the public grasp the core concepts, contradictions, and contributions of this commercial sphere. Containing scholarly riches produced by over 60 authors, it traverses the gamut of digital consumption topics – exploring how bits, bytes, and bots shape consumer behavior and consumer culture in the digital arena."

Cele Otnes, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, USA

　

"We are all living in a digital world, but how does that change the people living in it? The Routledge Handbook of Digital Consumption takes an intellectually critical look into the digital world. With an emphasis on qualitative approaches, this volume contains thoughtful chapters from deep digital thinkers. Taken as a whole, the book ‘steps back’ to view the digital domain in a broad, multidisciplinary way, taking into account the philosophical, sociological, and psychological impact of the digital environment, and considering the broad, societal implications as well. Truly understanding the digital world demands an eclectic viewpoint, and this volume provides a wide-ranging view of the digital forces that are changing our lives."

Roland T. Rust, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, USA

　

"Such is the transformative power of the digital revolution on both consumer behaviour and more broadly consumer culture that hot on the heels of the first edition comes this second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Digital Consumption. The editors have again assembled a super collection of essays from leading academics in their fields, arranged into seven broad themes, from how to research digital consumers, through to more critical perspectives on how digitalization is transforming consumer practices, societies, and cultures. For students and their teachers who are trying to keep pace with the profound changes of the digital revolution on consumer behaviour this is a very timely and welcome additional resource. Ask your library to stock this book now!"

Avi Shankar, University of Bath, UK

　

"Thought provoking, cutting edge, and comprehensive coverage by global experts! A must read for anyone interested in digital consumption!"

Jochen Wirtz, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore

　

"Llamas and Belk, acknowledged experts on the digital transformation, have assembled an extraordinary group of scholars. There simply is no other handbook that portrays our digital world in such detail. In my view, a must read for any researcher in the social sciences and any business practitioner looking for consumer insight to drive business growth."

Bernd Schmitt, Columbia Business School, USA

　

"As companies from Facebook to Microsoft rebrand and reconstitute to align with the ‘metaverse’, a fulsome foundation in the consumer behaviors constituting not just a life engaged online, but a digital life lived entirely within a digital world, becomes paramount. Enter this handbook and its expert guide to the complexities and conundrums of digital consumption 3.0."

Susan Fournier, Boston University, USA