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Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez

#Barbie and Social Media

Digital Discourses and Mattel's Celebrity Doll

&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;.- 1. Barbie and Digital Discourse: Brand, Identity, and Resistance in a Networked World Rebecca C. Hains and Emily R. Aguil&amp;oacute;-P&amp;eacute;rez.- Part I: Social Media Influencing and Barbie.- 2. &amp;lsquo;She&amp;rsquo;s Everything&amp;rsquo;: Mattel&amp;rsquo;s Re-branded Barbie Vlogger as Can-Do Girl Influencer Brilynn Janckila.- 3. She Can Be&amp;hellip; President: Exploring #Barbieforpresident&amp;rsquo;s Social Media Campaign and Her Electability with Millennial Moms Andrea E. Hall &amp;amp; Lauren D. Furey.- 4. Barbie: The Original Brand Activist Andrea Bennet &amp;amp; Fernanda Muniz.- Part II: Digital Discourses about Barbie.- 5. There&amp;rsquo;s Something about Midge: (Mis)remembering Pregnant Doll Controversies Online Hannah Maitland.- 6. #Barbiecore: The Cruel(?) Optimism of Postfeminist Nostalgia Jennifer Dawn Whitney.- 7. Barbie&amp;rsquo;s Brazilian Parody: Deconstructing the Image of Mattel&amp;rsquo;s Perfect Doll Petronilio Filipe-Ferreira, V&amp;iacute;rnia Martins, and Giselly Martins da Horta.- Part III: Negotiating Identity in Digital Culture with Barbie.- &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;8. Reclaiming our Childhoods: Black Women&amp;rsquo;s Engagement in Digital Black Barbie Doll Play Lakisha Odlum.- 9. Drag Queen Barbie as Influencer: Gender Expression and Drag Performance on Social Media Cecilia Cerja.- 10. #PlasticReligion: Barbie as a Religious Avatar on Social Media Emily R. Aguil&amp;oacute;-P&amp;eacute;rez, Emma Cieslik, and Mackenzie Taylo.&lt;/p&gt;

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Zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit wird seit Jahren geforscht, unter anderem in Bezug auf unternehmerisches Engagement. Das gilt unter anderem für die Kosmetikindustrie, die für die Verwendung von Plastik und umweltschädlichen Chemikalien kritisiert wird. Dieses nachhaltige Engagement kann aus Markenführungssicht verwendet werden, um sich von Wettbewerbern abzugrenzen. Ob und wie verschiedene Kosmetikmarken&nbsp;Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation nutzen, wird in dieser Arbeit mit einer qualitativen Analyse ausgewählter sprachlicher Mittel untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen diverse Gemeinsamkeiten bezogen auf die kommunizierten Inhalte und genutzten rhetorischen Mittel, Frames und Emotionsausdrücke. Allerdings werden jeweils andere thematische Schwerpunkte sowie unterschiedliche Kommunikationsinstrumente verwendet.&nbsp;Insgesamt zeigt diese Arbeit, dass sich theoretische Grundlagen zu Nachhaltigkeit, Markenführung und Kommunikationsinstrumenten in der Unternehmenspraxis bestätigen lassen.Die Autorin
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 Michelle Kämpfer 
 legte während Studienaufenthalten an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt und der Åbo Akademi Turku ihren Forschungsschwerpunkt auf die Verwendung von Emotionen in Kommunikation. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Ein Vergleich der Unternehmenskommunikation von Kosmetikmarken

Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation in der Kosmetikbranche

Visionary marketing insider, Christian Muche, Founder of the annual Possible conference, has built his career by turning bold ideas into transformative platforms that shape industries and inspire global audiences. In The Future Possible, Christian shares the latest groundbreaking innovation at the intersection of marketing and technology so that businesses of all types can learn what is needed to succeed over the coming decades.The key themes include: <ul><li>Trust as the primary currency (earned, measured, defended).</li><li>Moments as the flywheel that turns attention into adoption.</li><li>Networks as the distribution logic for ideas, products, and reputation.</li></ul>This is the playbook to building trust-first brands that travel across markets and media. Chapters include executive frameworks that leaders can apply immediately, and a clear way to lead through AI acceleration, cultural volatility, and the post-attention economy without whiplash.

The platform-backed blueprint for building the next generation of market-leading brands.

Leadership, Human Connection, and Creating What Comes Next

The Future Possible

"Der Missbrauch von Kindesmissbrauch" ist eine gesellschaftliche Analyse darüber, wie ein der schlimmsten Verbrechen unserer Zeit im öffentlichen Raum erneut "missbraucht" wird - nicht durch Täter im engeren Sinn, sondern durch Aufmerksamkeitslogiken, mediale Dynamiken, politische Instrumentalisierung und kommerzielle Verwertung. Das Buch ist kein persönlicher Erlebnisbericht, sondern zeigt, warum der Umgang mit dem Thema selbst für Betroffene gefährlich werden kann, wenn Leid zur Bühne, zur Währung oder zur Debattenwaffe wird. 

Ausgehend von einer Betrachtung von Macht (als Fähigkeit, andere zu beeinflussen) beschreibt der Autor, wie sich Macht in Strukturen wie Medien, Institutionen und Plattformen verschiebt - und wie Missbrauch neben körperlicher und psychischer Gewalt auch eine Kontrolle über Deutung und Wahrheit erzeugt. 

Dem stellt das Buch die Perspektive der Machtlosigkeit gegenüber: die Ohnmacht des Kindes während der Tat - und die fortgesetzte Ohnmacht im Erwachsenenleben, verstärkt durch Unglauben, Bagatellisierung oder sensationsgetriebene Reaktionen. Besonders zentral ist die Idee einer "zweiten Machtlosigkeit", wenn Betroffene erzählen wollen und ihre Realität angezweifelt, vereinnahmt oder zum öffentlichen Material gemacht wird. 

Im dritten und vierten Kapitel wird erklärt, warum soziale Medien Tabuthemen belohnen: Algorithmen fördern Intensität statt Wahrhaftigkeit, Empörung wird zur Reichweite, Geschichten werden zur "Währung". Daraus entsteht die Vermarktung von Leid - bis hin zu Produkten, Kampagnen und Selbstdarstellungen, die vom Thema profitieren, während Opferschutz in den Hintergrund rückt. 

Am Ende steht ein Appell: Schutz statt Show, Respekt statt Reichweite, plus ein Ethik-Leitfaden mit konkreten Regeln (u. a. zuhören statt urteilen, keine fremden Geschichten verbreiten, Sensationsdarstellungen meiden, Trigger beachten, Fokus auf Betroffene). Ergänzend werden Hilfsangebote genannt.

Der Missbrauch von Kindesmissbrauch

Consumption is more than the acquisition of products and services: It is a cultural process through which individuals express identities, negotiate meanings, and communicate values. These meanings are shaped within broader social and cultural contexts and, in today’s hyperconnected era, circulate across markets, media, and communities with unprecedented intensity. This book examines emerging artists as cultural agents – Symbolic Architects of Consumption – focusing on Bad Bunny and Saint Levant as market-shaping actors whose music, narratives, aesthetics, and public identities communicate values and cultural codes far beyond the artistic sphere. Drawing on established Theories, the book shows how these artists create and circulate meanings and symbolic codes that shape consumption across fashion, language, lifestyles, and digital culture. Through in-depth case analysis and experimental evidences the volume offers a new perspective on how contemporary cultural actors shape meanings, markets, and consumption together the effects on emotional engagement, symbolic identification, and behavioural responses.Luigi Nasta, 
 Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Management and Director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship at the John Cabot University. His research focuses on digital transformation and sustainability in creative and cultural industries, entrepreneurial finance and crowdfunding, responsible leadership, and the strategic use of emerging technologies such as AI and big data across business functions. &nbsp;
 
 &nbsp;
 
 Andrea Sestino, 
 
 Ph.D., Qualified as Full Professor of Management and Marketing, is Associate Professor (eCampus), and Lecturer in the same field at Luiss Business School and Affiliate Fellow at ISEM, Universidad de Navarra, Madrid. His research lies at the intersection of innovation management, marketing, and consumer behaviour, examining how immersive and interactive technologies reshape consumer experiences, value creation, and market dynamics. He is also interested in human-technology interaction, cultural consumption, and technology-enabled innovation.
 
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 Luca Pirolo, 
 
 Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Management at Luiss University, Associate Dean for Multi-Hub Strategy, and Director of the Specialised Master Area at Luiss Business School. He also serves as Vice Dean of the LUISS Dubai Campus and as member of the Board of Directors of the Amsterdam Fashion Academy – Luiss Business School, Netherlands.

Consumption is more than the acquisition of products and services: It is a cultural process through which individuals express identities, negotiate meanings, and communicate values. These meanings are shaped within broader social and cultural contexts and, in today’s hyperconnected era, circulate across markets, media, and communities with unprecedented intensity. This book examines emerging artists as cultural agents – Symbolic Architects of Consumption – focusing on Bad Bunny and Saint Levant as market-shaping actors whose music, narratives, aesthetics, and public identities communicate values and cultural codes far beyond the artistic sphere. Drawing on established Theories, the book shows how these artists create and circulate meanings and symbolic codes that shape consumption across fashion, language, lifestyles, and digital culture. Through in-depth case analysis and experimental evidences the volume offers a new perspective on how contemporary cultural actors shape meanings, markets, and consumption together the effects on emotional engagement, symbolic identification, and behavioural responses.

Shaping Consumer Behaviour and Value Creation in the Hyperconnected Era

Symbolic Architects of Consumption

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A cult classic and Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, this sharp, insightful novel by New Yorker contributor Han Ong explores racial and social hierarchy, personal identity, and alienation. William Paulinha—a resourceful gay Filipino sex worker barely getting by in New York—is determined to turn his life around when he crosses paths with Shem C., an on-the-rise author now disgraced and exiled from both his marriage and the city’s literary inner circle. Furious at the world that cast him out, Shem finds in the intelligent and pliable William the perfect accomplice for his plans. Under Shem’s tutelage, William reinvents himself as “Master Chao,” an enigmatic Feng Shui consultant catering to New York’s wealthiest and most self-satisfied classes. As doors swing open and fortunes are arranged and rearranged, William is pulled ever deeper into the private anxieties and secret desires of the powerful, discovering just how much people will pay to believe that even their moral rot can be purified and saved. Blending razor-sharp satire with tenderness and psychological insight, Fixer Chao traces a dazzling ascent built on illusion and audacious transformation. By turns funny, devastating, and electrifying, Ong’s writing asks what it takes to remake oneself in America—and what, if anything, remains when the performance finally ends.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A cult classic and Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, this sharp, insightful novel by New Yorker contributor Han Ong explores racial and social hierarchy, personal identity, and alienation. William Paulinha—a resourceful gay Filipino sex worker barely getting by in New York—is determined to turn his life around when he crosses paths with Shem C., an on-the-rise author now disgraced and exiled from both his marriage and the city’s literary inner circle. Furious at the world that cast him out, Shem finds in the intelligent and pliable William the perfect accomplice for his plans. Under Shem’s tutelage, William reinvents himself as “Master Chao,” an enigmatic Feng Shui consultant catering to New York’s wealthiest and most self-satisfied classes. As doors swing open and fortunes are arranged and rearranged, William is pulled ever deeper into the private anxieties and secret desires of the powerful, discovering just how much people will pay to believe that even their moral rot can be purified and saved. Blending razor-sharp satire with tenderness and psychological insight, Fixer Chao traces a dazzling ascent built on illusion and audacious transformation. By turns funny, devastating, and electrifying, Ong’s writing asks what it takes to remake oneself in America—and what, if anything, remains when the performance finally ends.

A Novel

Fixer Chao

Born from a desire for creative freedom, web series often circumvent screen industry gatekeepers and attract smaller, niche audiences; but fewer views do not necessarily make the format, or its audience engagement, less valuable. This book looks behind the scenes to uncover how and why audiences engaged with nine Australian web series released between 2020 and 2023. Interviews with web series producers reveal their motivations, audience acquisition and maintenance strategies, funding methods, and platform specific approaches. These first-hand accounts are then compared with viewership metrics and the content of audience commentary, resulting in the illumination of social, cultural, and industrial values of audience engagement with these innovative productions. This book identifies key factors that influence audience behaviours such as perceived authenticity, platform choice, and the types, forms, and costs of engaging with web series. These factors are considered with respect to online community building, relationships between creators and audiences, and commercial uses of the format, resulting in the creation of a typology of web series audiences. Readers benefit from understanding the value and characteristics of each type of viewer across a diverse range of examples featuring differing audience demographics, zero to over $1 million budgets, and platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok. Vibrant narratives are used to convey each series' backstory, providing an informative and engaging reading experience for screen industry practitioners, marketing and broadcast professionals, and aspiring filmmakers. Academics and students in the fields of media studies, audience engagement, screen production, creative labour and entrepreneurship, social media, and algorithmic culture will also benefit from this research.

Audience Engagement in the Web Series Ecology

Watching Web Series

Daten sind Macht: Wenn wir nicht das Datenschweinchen im Überwachungskapitalismus sein wollen, müssen wir handeln und uns aktiv schützen. Katika Kühnreichs Buch verknüpft eine umfassende Analyse der gesellschaftlichen Folgen der Digitalisierung mit einer Anleitung zur Selbstbestimmung.

Anleitung zur digitalen Selbstbestimmung

Kontrollierte Freiheit

This uniquely accessible textbook offers students and field practitioners a series of insightful lessons on marketing, each exploring a distinct theme. Unlike traditional textbooks, this easy-to-read guide emphasizes creativity and conceptual understanding, allowing you to engage with topics based on your interests without following a fixed order, resulting in a broader understanding of marketing principles and their real-world applications.
The chapters cover a range of key concepts, including:
<ul>
<li>The evolution of marketing definitions</li>
<li>The fundamentals of positioning</li>
<li>Branding and how it shapes consumer perceptions</li>
<li>Social marketing and its transformative potential</li>
<li>The intricacies of pricing strategies</li>
</ul>
Each lesson is enriched with real-world examples and illustrations, providing practical insights and making abstract concepts tangible.
This book is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in Marketing, Management, and Business, as well as practitioners seeking a contemporary update on marketing concepts. By offering a modular, concept-based approach, this book invites you to explore marketing's role and significance in today's dynamic marketspace, encouraging critical reflection and independent thinking. Whether you're a student or a professional, this book provides the tools to deepen your understanding of marketing and its impact on the world around us.
Emílio Távora Vilar is a Full Professor at the University of Lisbon with more than 30 years of experience teaching design, marketing, and management-related courses to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in Design and Art. He holds a degree in Communication Design, an MBA in Design Management, and a PhD in Management specialising in Marketing. Over the years, Emílio Vilar has coordinated the undergraduate and master's programmes in Communication Design and has led or contributed to their ongoing reformulation. He has also served as Vice Dean and President of the Pedagogical Council. Alongside his academic roles, he is the author of five books and has published over 50 research papers.

This uniquely accessible textbook offers students and field practitioners a series of insightful lessons on marketing, each exploring a distinct theme. Unlike traditional textbooks, this easy-to-read guide emphasizes creativity and conceptual understanding, allowing you to engage with topics based on your interests without following a fixed order, resulting in a broader understanding of marketing principles and their real-world applications.The chapters cover a range of key concepts, including:<ul><li>The evolution of marketing definitions</li><li>The fundamentals of positioning</li><li>Branding and how it shapes consumer perceptions</li><li>Social marketing and its transformative potential</li><li>The intricacies of pricing strategies</li></ul>Each lesson is enriched with real-world examples and illustrations, providing practical insights and making abstract concepts tangible.This book is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in Marketing, Management, and Business, as well as practitioners seeking a contemporary update on marketing concepts. By offering a modular, concept-based approach, this book invites you to explore marketing's role and significance in today's dynamic marketspace, encouraging critical reflection and independent thinking. Whether you're a student or a professional, this book provides the tools to deepen your understanding of marketing and its impact on the world around us.

A Practical Guide to Key Concepts

Ten and a Half Lessons in Marketing

Beck Steuer-Praxis

Die steuerliche Beratung von Creator- und Influencer-Mandaten

Influencer-Besteuerung

Should we give up privacy to fight disease, for national security, or to help train AI systems? Recent crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, from Gaza and Afghanistan to the seemingly unstoppable rise of AI, have put privacy under severe pressure. Privacy in Crisis argues the opposite: these crises show that privacy needs to be protected even more. Privacy in Crisis looks at vital current issues: at political manipulation and misinformation, government surveillance, racial tension, hybrid and cyberwarfare (and real wars, such as those in Ukraine and Gaza), the overwhelming power of the internet giants, and surveillance society, and how interference with privacy is key in all of them. It shows how specific crises bring many of these issues together in perfect storms of privacy invasion. The different threats to our privacy revealed by these crises tell parallel stories and are inextricably linked. There are common themes and common technologies - the threats involve the same data, the same profiling systems and the same approaches. In many cases the systems are run or owned by the same small set of companies, controlled by the same few people. Addressing them is difficult but possible - this essential book outlines how.

Law and Policy in Times of Extremism, Pandemics, and War

Privacy in Crisis

"THE STUFF ROMANCE DREAMS ARE MADE OF." - Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author Sparks fly in this USA Today bestselling second chance rom com when an unlucky-in-love event planner realizes the man-of-honor at the high profile wedding he's planning is the same man who broke his heart. They say you never forget your first kiss. But Jordan Carter wishes he could forget the one he shared with Jamie Peters as teens. And the one they almost shared again last year before Jamie made it clear he wasn't the "right" man for Jordan to be with while he's figuring himself out. Now, Jordan's fully focused on his career at 24 Carter Gold, his family's event planning company, and ready to move on - until his boss assigns him to plan a new client's high-profile wedding. The bride's man-of-honor? None other than Jamie. As things ramp up the closer they get to the wedding, so does Jordan's relationship with Jamie, with sarcastic asides turning into steamy hook-ups. But can Jordan afford to pursue Jamie if he's still unsure of who he is? Or is knowing who he loves enough? Venue shopping, cake-tastings, and dress fittings with the man he can't forget just might change the man Jordan Carter is meant to become. Last First Kiss by Julian Winters is a second chance romance about finding yourself-and the love of your life. "A tender, slow burn romance about falling for your first crush, questioning your identity on your own terms, and finding your place in the world. Julian Winters delivers a sweet, funny, steamy, and uplifting love story that is sure to make readers swoon." - Alexis Daria, USA Today bestselling author of You Had Me at Hola "No one writes as vividly and as tenderly as Julian Winters, and Last First Kiss is his best yet. It's as sweet as an unexpected slow dance in a conservatory and as playful as a cake tasting turned flirty, and while Jordan and Jamie may have had their last first kiss, you'll be sighing happily over their firsts and lasts long after you close the book." - Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone, authors of A Jingle Bell Mingle "Pure and utter fun, with a sparkling cast of characters and an effortlessly witty voice. Last First Kiss is a love letter to late bloomers, found family, and anyone who's still trying to figure themselves out - and a reminder that it can be an ongoing process." - Rachel Lynn Solomon, New York Times bestselling author of What Happens in Amsterdam

Last First Kiss

A provocative exposé of how our attention, behavior, and desires have been co-opted by the “choice box”—a curated set of options that offer a false sense of agency while funneling us down pre-determined paths controlled by a select few Choice boxes are all around us, but chances are you’ve never noticed them. Every time you click on a recommended video, rate an Uber driver, run a Google search, or invest in your 401k, you may think you’re the one calling the shots—but in reality, you’re limited to making the choices that a corporation wants you to make. Today, structured decision-making governs our lives to such an extent that we hardly see it at all. But who designs these choices, and whose interests do they serve? In Choose Your Captivity, historian Eli Cook introduces readers to the choice architects who first built these boxes and trapped us inside—from the maze-building eugenicist who invented the multiple-choice test to the marketing gurus who sold off our supermarket shelves to a few ultra-processed food giants. In less than a generation, architects like these have transformed a handful of online platforms into the richest businesses in the world. And by determining our options, controlling our actions, and even shaping our identities, they have laid the groundwork&nbsp;for the winner-takes-all game of digital capitalism that dominates us today. In a society built around the promise of free choice and personal responsibility, Cook argues, these hidden architects might just have the greatest power of all. A propulsive and vivid history, Choose Your Captivity opens readers’ eyes to the immense power of the choice box—and how to escape it.

A provocative exposé of how our attention, behavior, and desires have been co-opted by the “choice box”—a curated set of options that offer a false sense of agency while funneling us down pre-determined paths controlled by a select few Choice boxes are all around us, but chances are you’ve never noticed them. Every time you click on a recommended video, rate an Uber driver, run a Google search, or invest in your 401k, you may think you’re the one calling the shots—but in reality, you’re limited to making the choices that a corporation wants you to make. Today, structured decision-making governs our lives to such an extent that we hardly see it at all. But who designs these choices, and whose interests do they serve? In Choose Your Own Captivity, historian Eli Cook introduces readers to the choice architects who first built these boxes and trapped us inside—from the maze-building eugenicist who invented the multiple-choice test to the marketing gurus who sold off our supermarket shelves to a few ultra-processed food giants. In less than a generation, architects like these have transformed a handful of online platforms into the richest businesses in the world. And by determining our options, controlling our actions, and even shaping our identities, they have laid the groundwork&nbsp;for the winner-takes-all game of digital capitalism that dominates us today. In a society built around the promise of free choice and personal responsibility, Cook argues, these hidden architects might just have the greatest power of all. A propulsive and vivid history, Choose Your Own Captivity opens readers’ eyes to the immense power of the choice box—and how to escape it.

How Corporations Built Our Choices and Sold Our Freedom

Choose Your Captivity

#Barbie and Social Media

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