The New Consumer Online: A Sociology of Taste, Audience, and Publics

The New Consumer Online: A Sociology of Taste, Audience, and Publics
ISBN-10
1784716006
ISBN-13
9781784716004
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2015-12-18
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Author
Edward F. McQuarrie

Description

It’s a new world online, where consumers can publish their writing and gain a public presence, even a mass audience. This book links together blogging, writing reviews for Yelp, and creating pinboards for Pinterest, all of which provide ordinary people the opportunity to display their tastes to strangers. Edward McQuarrie expertly analyzes how the operation of taste in consumption has been changed by the Internet and offers a fresh perspective on why websites like Yelp and Pinterest have become so successful.

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