The Routledge Handbook Of Digital Consumption

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Since the publication of the ground-breaking first edition, there has been an exponential growth in research and literature about the digital world and its enormous potential benefits and threats. Fully revised and updated, this new edition brings together an expertly curated and authoritative overview of the impact and emerging horizons of digital consumption. Divided into sections, it addresses key topics including digital entertainment, self-representation, communication, Big Data, digital spirituality, online surveillance, and algorithmic advertising. It explores developments such as consumer data collection techniques, peer-to-peer payment systems, augmented reality, and AI-enhanced consumer well-being, as well as digital transgression, secrecy, crypto-currencies, NFTs, and cultural concerns such as the spread of conspiracy theories and fake news. From digital influencers, digital nomads, and digital neo-tribalism to robots and cyborgs, it explores existences that blur boundaries between humans and machines, reality and the metaverse, and the emerging "technoculture" – a state of all-encompassing digital being. This unique volume is an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and policy makers, and will continue to provide a new generation of readers with a deep understanding of the universe of digital consumption. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables About the Contributors PART I: What’s Digital? 1 Living in a Digital Society 2 Digital Nomadism as Temporal Privilege 3 How Digitalization Blurs Boundaries, Makes Things Ungraspable, and Affects Psychological Appropriation 4 Transhumanism and the Phenomenology of Cyborg Senses 5 Researching the Black Box: A Call for Methodological Diversity, Transdisciplinarity, and Creativity in Research on Smart Digital Consumption 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 7 Digital Identity: The Postmodern Consumer Chameleon 8 Digital Payment, “Venmo Me” Culture, and Sociality 9 From Blogs to Platforms: Content Landscape and Affordances 10 Chatbots: From Eliza and Alexa to Therapy-Bots, and Sexbots PART III: Researching the Digital Consumer 11 Robots: Friend or Foe, Master or Servant? 12 Understanding Technoculture 13 Critical Issues in Artificial Intelligence Algorithms and Their Implications for Digital Marketing 14 Utilizing Digital Reality in Intergenerational Research 15 The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Capturing Livestreamed Performances PART IV: Communicating, Interacting, and Socializing 16 Considering the Impacts of Transgressive Behaviors among Interactive Online Audiences 17 You’ll Never Walk Alone: Socializing and Finding Your Tribe in a Digital Age 18 Capitalist Subjectivity, Tinder, and the Emotionalization of the Web 19 They Aren’t Secret, They Aren’t Hiding, and Some Online Communities Are More Dangerous Than Ever 20 A ‘Thumbs Up’ and ‘Thumbs Down’ for Thumb Culture: The Paradoxical Nature of Smartphones PART V: Using Digital 21 From Techno-Utopianism to Personal Panopticon and Beyond: A Call for a Revised Self-Tracking Research Agenda 22 Transformations in Digital Virtual Consumption 23 Consumer Decision Making in Omnichannel Environments 24 Patient Experience Assemblages on Digital Health Platforms 25 Stock Investing in the Digital Age 26 How Do Consumers (Re-)organize Their Lives Through Digital Decluttering? PART VI: Playing, Praying, Educating, and Entertaining 27 The Perpetual Traveler – Hypermobility in a Connected World 28 Digital Consumer Spirituality 29 Education in a Digital Age: Do We Need More Innovation in Educational Innovations? 30 Digital Fandom (Revisited): Exploring the Role of the Hypermediated Fan as Trickster 31 Online Games: Consuming Experiences and Interacting in Virtual Worlds PART VII: Issues of Concern in Society and Culture 32 The Double Edge of Diversity in a Digital World 33 Identity Expressions of Agender Individuals in a Digital World 34 Online Privacy as Space: Concepts, Issues, and Research Avenues for Digital Consumption 35 The Power of Digital Integration: The Normalization of Tracking and Surveillance Technologies 36 Online Consumer Activism 2.5: Youth at the Forefront of the Global Climate Crisis 37 The Digital Transformation of Consumer Movements 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 39 ‘Posting Sexy Images and Still Being Respected as a Woman’: Perspectives on Human and Non-Human Influencers 40 Consumer Online (Dis)Trust: A Decade Later Afterword: The Internet’s Effects on Consumption: Useful, Harmful, Playful Index