Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- About the Contributors -- PART I: What's Digital? -- 1 Living in a Digital Society -- 2 Digital Nomadism as Temporal Privilege -- 3 How Digitalization Blurs Boundaries, Makes Things...

1 Introduction Yuko Minowa and Russell W. Belk SECTION I History of Consumerism in Asia 2 The Long March of the Commodity in China Alison Hulme 3 Consumerism in Early Modern Japan: Food, Fashion, and Publishing Kazuo Usui SECTION II Consumer Identity Projects 4 Century of Humiliation and...

Using some of the latest qualitative research tools, this volume highlights insights about consumption ranging from how consumers process advertising messages, to how small retailers can combat the practice of "showrooming" by consumers comparing online prices with mobile devices.

"This fully revised second edition of a best-selling Handbook is an essential resource for qualitative researchers and practitioners in marketing. Developments in artificial intelligence and software have contributed to huge changes in qualitative methodologies since the first edition was...