Essays about: "Andrei Vanetski"

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  1. 1. Why Brands Still Cause Trouble : Revisiting Holt's dialectical theory of consumer culture and branding

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    Author : Luis Grau; Andrei Vanetski; [2018]
    Keywords : brands; consumers; consumer culture; instagram; influencers; marketing; micro-celebrity; endorsement; Bourdieu s habitus; lacan s discourse;

    Abstract : The rise of social media in general and Instagram in particular has enabled a new type of celebrities, called micro-celebrities, that nowadays are being increasingly used by companies to endorse their products or establish their brands. While celebrity endorsement as a type of stealth branding together with some other marketing techniques characteristic of postmodernism were predicted to be unveiled and scorned by consumers (Holt, 2002), there are signs that through the practices of micro-celebrities, the language and logic of marketing have become even more ubiquitous in our contemporary social life (Khamis et al. READ MORE