This article provides a synthesizing overview of the past 20 yr. of consumer research
addressing the sociocultural, experiential, symbolic, and ideological aspects of …

Over the past three decades, scholars have paid greater attention to the intensification and
complex interconnectivity of local and global processes. Anthropological studies of cross …

We argue word embedding models are a useful tool for the study of culture using a historical
analysis of shared understandings of social class as an empirical case. Word embeddings …

Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in
people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us; the …

Since the late nineteenth century, cultural historians have noted that the importance of love
increased during the Medieval and Early Modern European period (a phenomenon that was …

There is a contradiction at the heart of digital media. We use commercial platforms to
express our identity, to build community and to engage politically. At the same time, our …

Sharing is central to how we live today: it is what we do online; it is a model of economic
behaviour; and it is also a type of therapeutic talk. Sharing embodies positive values such as …

What does it mean to grow up today as working-class young adults? How does the
economic and social instability left in the wake of neoliberalism shape their identities, their …

Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using
media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that …

The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm explores the ongoing strength and insidious grip of couple-
normativity across changing landscapes of law, policy and everyday life in four contrasting …