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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463133303321

Titolo

Digital virtual consumption / / edited by Mike Molesworth and Janice Denegri-Knott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

0-203-11483-3

1-283-86211-5

1-136-29284-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology ; ; 23

Altri autori (Persone)

Denegri-KnottJanice <1977->

MolesworthMike

Disciplina

303.48/33

Soggetti

Digital electronics - Social aspects

Technological innovations - Social aspects

Information society

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Contexts and perspectives -- pt. II. Places and practices.

Sommario/riassunto

Digital media present opportunities for new types of consumption including desiring, buying, collecting, making, and even selling digital virtual goods. To these activities we can add those taking place in virtual communities of consumption, online shops, brand websites, and online auction houses that together amount to a vast new landscape of consumption. Digital virtual consumption motivates concatenated practices which produce meaningful experience for their users as well as market opportunities to profit from them. Consumers create and maintain elaborate wish lists, engaging with simula