Upgrade Culture and Technological Change

The Business of the Future
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-04577-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

This book explores the origin and future of "upgrade culture," a collection of cultural habits and orientations based on the assumption that new technologies will rapidly, perpetually, and inevitably emerge.

By analyzing discourses of technological change and the practices of marketing workers inside the consumer technology industry between the early 1980s and the late 2010s, the book describes the genesis, maintenance, and future of upgrade culture. Based on archival and popular sources, first-hand interviews with a range of industry professionals, and participant observations at industry-only events, the book attends to issues both intimate to the culture of marketing work and structural to the organization of the consumer technology industry.

This book will have a broad appeal to social/cultural theorists of technology, marketing, and consumerism, as well as to scholars in business history, communication, cultural studies, media studies, sociology, and anthropology.

The Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003193869-1/introduction-adam-richard-rottinghaus?context=ubx&refId=1bb75408-b5c2-4a69-bd20-082a73a77920

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rottinghaus, Adam Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Marketing
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Creating Assumptions about Technological Change 2. The Diffusion of Upgrade Culture 3. Visions of the Future from CES 4. Marketing Workers in Upgrade Culture Conclusion: Challenging Upgrade Culture

Über Autor(innen)

Adam Richard Rottinghaus is an Assistant Professor of Media, Journalism & Film at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA. He is a critical, media, and cultural studies scholar who researches strategic communications, emerging technologies, and futurism.