"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...

What is a brand? -- Kids and branding -- Emergence of brand consciousness -- Children and digital branding -- Branding potential of online social media -- Brands and advergames -- Brands and adverworlds -- Regulation and control of branding to children