[-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 132, Issue 3

[Jonathan Schroeder]

Here are the rest of my invitees for this discussion:

Doug Allen is Chair of Markets, Innovation, and Design at Bucknell University’s School of Management. His research focuses on consumer culture and emphasizes practice theory in the context of various domains of experience ranging from consumer choice to financial investing practices. His work has appeared in a number of journals in marketing, consumer research, and finance.

Mehita Iqani is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is the author of Consumer Culture and the Media: Magazines in the Public Eye (2012) and Consumption, Media and the Global South: Aspiration Contested (2015).  She received her PhD from the Department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics and Political Science.
 
Richard Kedzior is assistant professor of Markets, Innovation and Design at Bucknell University’s School of Management. As a consumer researcher he focuses on issues at the intersection of culture and technology such as digital materiality. His recent work on the interplay of digital technologies and consumer identities has been published in Journal of Marketing Management. His articles has also been published in numerous edited volumes dedicated to consumption and consumer culture.