"Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key historical moments assigned value, or "luxury," to mass-produced products as an important business model. Japanese name-brand luxury evolved alongside a...

Editor's preface / Gabriele Siegert, M. Bjørn von Rimscha, and Stephanie Grubenmann -- Information and disinformation about advertising / Kati Förster and Ulli Weish -- Information and disinformation through advertising / Roland Mangold -- Information about users / Andrew McStay -- Inclusion...