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Douglas B. Holt
Researcher at University of Pittsburgh
Publications - 47
Citations - 11287
Douglas B. Holt is an academic researcher from University of Pittsburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Consumption (sociology) & Session (computer science). The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 44 publications receiving 10736 citations. Previous affiliations of Douglas B. Holt include Harvard University & University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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Why Do Brands Cause Trouble? A Dialectical Theory of Consumer Culture and Branding
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the rise of the modern cultural engineering paradigm of branding, premised upon a consumer culture that granted marketers cultural authority, and describe the current post-postmodern consumer culture, which is premised on the pursuit of personal sovereignty through brands.
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How consumers consume: A typology of consumption practices.
TL;DR: This article examined what people do when they consume through a case study of baseball spectators in Chicago's Wrigley Field bleachers, and developed a typology of consuming as play, an alternative conception of materialism as a style of consuming.
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Does Cultural Capital Structure American Consumption
TL;DR: In this article, a series of ethnographic interviews was conducted to investigate whether differences in cultural capital resources structure patterns of taste in a mideastern American county. But they found that consumption continues to serve as a potent site for the reproduction of social class, and suggested that the theory should be reformulated to focus on consumption practices rather than consumption objects and on mass rather than high culture.
How Brands Become Icons; The Principles Of Cultural Branding
TL;DR: Holt et al. as mentioned in this paper present a systematic model to explain how brands become icons, which is based on extensive historical analyses of some of America's most successful iconic brands, including ESPN, Mountain Dew, Volkswagen, Budweiser, and Harley-Davidson, and show how iconic brands create identity myths that, through powerful symbolism, soothe collective anxieties resulting from acute social change.