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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792362003321

Autore

Miles Christopher <1967-, >

Titolo

Interactive marketing : revolution or rhetoric? / / Christopher Miles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-97394-X

1-136-97395-8

1-282-58649-1

9786612586491

0-203-85207-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Routledge interpretive marketing research ; ; 12

Disciplina

658.8/7

Soggetti

Interactive marketing

Direct marketing

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

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; About the Author; Introduction; 1 The Rhetoric of Interactivity; 2 The Interactivity Crisis and Marketing Discourse; 3 A Radical Constructivist's Marketing Construction; 4 The Rendition of the Consumer's Voice; 5 Customer Communities and the Grammar of Control; 6 The Autism of Relationship Marketing; 7 A Recursive, Invitational Model of Marketing Interactivity; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book critically examines the rhetoric surrounding current trends in the adoption of tropes of interactivity in marketing communication. Concepts such as viral advertising, customer-generated content, brand communities and the whole panoply of Web 2.0-mediated marketing technologies all have their foundations in an overt positioning of interactivity as the savior of effective marketing communication. Yet, what exactly is meant by interactivity in these contexts and how far does it represent a revolution in the methodologies of marketing? Anchoring his analysis in a critique of the assum