Journal of Consumer Culture

Absolutely fascinating new Paper by Bo-Chiuan Su @ConsumerCul Miss AI beauty pageant: A milestone in the convergence of technology, beauty, and social norms journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… #AlgorithmicAesthetics #RepresentationMatters #AIethics #MissAI

Consumption isn’t repetition. It’s precision engineering. Material edits. Temporal coding. Choreography disguised as habit.

Forget the rational actor. Forget pure habit. Life-course transitions aren't windows of reflection, they're shifts in coordination within material systems. Objects, infrastructures, schedules. Where routines fracture, new choreographies emerge.

New paper drop Journal of Consumer Culture. Consumption isn’t habits. It’s coordination. Activity chains. Material infrastructures. The choreography of everyday life. By Krog-Juvik & Southerton "Activity event connections and life-course transitions" 👉 doi.org/10.1177/146954…

Journal of Consumer Culture. Where consumption meets cultural critique. #JournalOfConsumerCulture #ConsumerCulture #CulturalSociology #CulturalEconomy #Brands #Objects #Meaning #Consumption

Out today! ⌚️ The making of a status symbol by @pydonze Discover the fascinating story behind @ROLEX, the world's most iconic luxury watch brand. 'Reads like a thriller.' @LeTemps #Rolex #Reachforthecrown

Comfort, modernity and gender equality at home. Discourses on the modernization of the family and household in Poland from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s By Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Performing balanced aspirations through identity capital: A case study of Chinese Ivy League influencers on RedNote Siyu Chen and Xinxin Jiang journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

'The Making of a Status Symbol offers a detailed look at the business strategies, leadership decisions and branding choices that helped @ROLEX become one of the most recognized names in the luxury world.' - @coronetmag The new book from @pydonze, coming June 2025.

New Paper... How humanized birth practice became an experience connected to neoliberal philosophy By Fernanda Bueno Cardoso Scussel and Thaysa Costa do Nascimento journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Wonderful paper on the @ConsumerCul journal by Malinvisa Sakdiyakorn and Rangson Chirakranont analysing #craft beer #consumption community in #Thailand. We need way more studies of craft production and consumption in non-Western contexts! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

They are dropping every day @ConsumerCul.....and what a new paper... Brewing social capital: A case study of Thailand’s craft beer consumption community By Malinvisa Sakdiyakorn and Rangson Chirakranont Read here 🍻👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

New Paper by John Konuk Blasing Materialism versus memory: Collecting football shirts in the age of consumerism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Trending in #CulturalStudies: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Datafication of qing & danmei writers (@EJCS_Journal) 2) Where are the Black girls on TikTok? (@IJCS_journal) 3) Environmental impacts of digital memory (@memorystudies) 4) Fandom & the LEGO inside tour (@consumercul)

Creative destruction? Exploring the deliberate destruction of possessions by consumers By Griff Round journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Towards a monumental experience: Fandom and corporate imaginary within the LEGO inside tour by Vlada Botorić journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Some excellent new papers arrived at Journal of Consumer Culture....take a look

Interesting event.