Brands : the logos of the global economy
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Brands : the logos of the global economy
(International library of sociology)
Routledge, 2004
- : pbk
Available at 27 libraries
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  Toyama
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Fukuoka
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  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-190) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Brands are everywhere: in the air, on the high-street, in the kitchen, on television and, maybe even on your feet. But what are they?
The brand, that point of connection between company and consumer, has become one of the key cultural forces of our time and one of the most important vehicles of globalization. This book offers a detailed and innovative analysis of the brand
Illustrated with many examples, the book argues that brands:
* mediate the supply and demand of products and services in a global economy
* frame the activities of the market by functioning as an interface
* communicate interactively, selectively promoting and inhibiting communication between producers and
consumers
* operate as a public currency while being legally protected as private property in law
* introduce sensation, qualities and affect into the quantitative calculations of the market
* organize the logics of global flows of products, people, images and events.
This book will be essential reading for students of sociology, cultural studies and consumption.
Table of Contents
1. Just Do What? The brand as new media object 2. Marketing as a Performative Discipline and the Emergence of the Brand 3. The Interface of the Brand: Complex objects, interactivity and partial solutions 4. Logos: From relations to relationships 5. The Brand as a Property Form of Relationality 6. Interactivity: Face-to-profile communication 7. The Objectivity of the Brand: Interactivity and the limits of rationality
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