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Aron Darmody
Researcher at Suffolk University
Publications - 13
Citations - 1001
Aron Darmody is an academic researcher from Suffolk University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Digital marketing & The Internet. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 13 publications receiving 894 citations. Previous affiliations of Aron Darmody include York University.
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Putting Consumers to Work: `Co-creation` and new marketing govern-mentality
TL;DR: The authors argue that the discourse of value co-creation stands for a notion of modern corporate power that is no longer aimed at disciplining consumers and shaping actions according to a given norm, but at working with and through the freedom of the consumer.
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Co-creating Second Life Market—Consumer Cooperation in Contemporary Economy
Samuel K. Bonsu,Aron Darmody +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on participant observation in the virtual-technology context of Second Life to explore cocreation's prepossessing claim of consumer empowerment and its connections to contemporary forms of social organization.
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Manipulate to empower: Hyper-relevance and the contradictions of marketing in the age of surveillance capitalism:
Aron Darmody,Detlev Zwick +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how digital marketers think about marketing in the age of Big Data surveillance, automatic computational analyses, and algorithmic shaping of choice contexts, and explore the role of context in the decision process.
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Arrested emotions in reality television
TL;DR: This paper found that the corporate arrest of emotions leads to a level of consumer emotional vapidity that is inextricably fused with firm profitability, and that the firm therefore allows the consumer ample leverage in offering these emotions that are mobilized, packaged and sold back to the consumer.
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Consumer Choicemaking and Choicelessness in Hyperdigital Marketspaces
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how technologies, especially Internet-based digital ones, are reshaping choice processes and actual considerations and actions, as well as perceptions of these, in massive, often fundamental, ways.