CS 617
Culture, Communication, and Consumption
This is the home page for CS 617, Culture, Communication, and Consumption,
taught Fall 2000 in the Communication Department at Emerson College.
A copy of the course syllabus may be found here.
Note: Current presentation assignments are noted on the syllabus page in
brackets after each reading.
This page will contain links to web-based resources of use to this class.
It is an on-going project and will be periodically updated. Students who
have discovered web pages of interest that are not listed on this page should
send me an email with the URL.
Contents.
1. General Resources
2. Project topics, 1999
3. Course-related web sites
4. Consumer behavior resources
General Resources
The Emerson College Library
has a number of relevant resources that may be accessed from off campus.
You need to set up a "proxy" using your ECNet account (see the library web
page for information) to access these resources from home.
Among the things you will want to check out are:
- Infotrac (Expanded Academic ASAP or General Business File ASAP) will
email the full text of articles to you. You can see the full text of recent
Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of
Advertising articles online in the General Business File ASAP collection.
- First Search (ECO) can give you full text copies of articles in several
Communication and Marketing journals (this is more limited than Infotrac).
- "Academic Search Elite" is a good way to check out abstracts of articles
in recent issues of journals related to consumer behavior.
Final Project Topics, Fall 1999
The following is a list of projects submitted in a previous CS 617 class.
I've included the title of the paper [with the paper's theoretical framework/method
in brackets].
- Subculture of Windsurfing [Ethnography; Celsi & Rose]
- Food Consumption as a Community Builder [Ethnography; McCracken]
- Quilts: Patina in the African-American Culture [Interviews; McCracken]
- Practical. Spiritual. Fun: Consumption of the American Conservative
Christian Movement. [Textual analysis; "creolization"]
- Spaghetti & Hermeneutics: Analyzing the food consumption habits
ofItalian students living in the United States [Hermeneutic]
- Food consumption habits of Asian Indian families living in the United
States. [Ethnography]
- The impact of food rationing during World War II in Germany and Switzerland
[Interviews; history]
- Chinese tonic remedies [Interviews]
- Star Wars: The cultural phenomenon. [Postmodernism]
- Understanding bottle water consumption [McCracken]
- The power of things and their displaced meanings: The global strategy
of durex condoms [McCracken]
- Coffee, Ouzo, Gyros: Three products that appear to define the Greek
reality. [McCracken]
- Consuming the perfect body [Hermeneutic]
- How culturally contexed is American advertising? [deMooij]
- The comforts of home: An acculturation study [Interviews]
- Analyzing cellular phone popularity in Taiwan [Interviews]
- Consumption rituals of weddings in Taiwan [Interviews]
- Differences in Alcohol Consumption Patterns in the U.S. and Taiwan
[Questionnaire]
- The Designed credit card in Taiwan [Interviews]
- The stock market's effect on consumption [Interviews]
Course Related Websites
Culture and Consumption
Consumer Research Methods
Ethnicity and Consumption
Gender and Consumption
Global Advertising
Cross-cultural Consumption
Playful Consumption
Critical Consumption
Consumer Behavior Resources
Programs and Professors in the field of Consumption and Consumer Behavior.
Journals devoted to the topic of Consumption and Culture
Other college courses in Culture and Consumption
Associations and Organizations in the field of Consumer Behavior.
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