Case Studies Travel and Outdoors Luxury Health & Wellbeing Aurōm and the Alchemy of Mindful Consumption: Repositioning the Hotel Café as Ritual tiers Brand Semiotics, Symbolic Consumption, Ritual, Social Identity, Luxury Positioning, Consumer Culture Adriana Chiñas
Case Studies Technology Learning and Teaching PUCPR, the Humanitas Code, and the Politics of Thinking with Machines tiers Brand Semiotics, Social Identity, Consumer Culture, Digital Anthropology, Algorithmic Mediation, Symbolic Consumption Adriana Chiñas
Case Studies Technology Learning and Teaching Roland FP-40: When the Instrument Becomes a Connected Learning Companion tiers Brand Semiotics, Platform Affordances, Consumer Culture, Digital Anthropology, Datafication, Identity Projects Adriana Chiñas
Case Studies Travel and Outdoors Mobility and Transport The Standby Release Valve: How United Turned a Waiting Room into an Agentive Ritual tiers Consumer Culture, Brand Semiotics, Digital Anthropology, Service Design, Symbolic Consumption, Consumer Agency Adriana Chiñas
Case Studies Retail and Shopping Technology Shopping at the Speed of Intent: Shipt and the Cultural Logic of Agentic Commerce tiers Agentic Commerce, Consumer Experience, Brand Semiotics, Digital Anthropology, Algorithmic Mediation, Symbolic Consumption Adriana Chiñas
Case Studies Health & Wellbeing Fashion and Apparel Alpinestars Wears the Crash: Airbags, Datafied Bodies, and the Cultural Grammar of Risk in Downhill Mountain Biking tiers Brand Semiotics, Social Identity, Consumer Culture, Datafication, Technological Mediation, Market Entry Adriana Chiñas
Case Studies Technology Sports and Games Froggy's World: How a Weather Mascot Turns Utility Into Belonging tiers Brand Semiotics, Symbolic Consumption, Digital Anthropology, Consumer Needs, Platform Affordances, Brand Ritual Adriana Chiñas
Case Studies Technology The Vanishing Frame: How Huawei's Pura X View Turns Screen-to-Body Ratio into Cultural Capital tiers Symbolic Consumption, Brand Semiotics, Product Design, Social Identity, Distinction, Digital Anthropology Adriana Chiñas
Case Studies Personal Aesthetics Luxury Health & Wellbeing Cottonball and the Merger of Two Meaning Systems: When Prescription Meets Prestige tiers Brand Semiotics, Luxury Consumption, Essentialism, Consumer Culture, Digital Anthropology, Social Identity Adriana Chiñas
Case Studies Real Estate & Construction Ecology and Sustainability Adaptive Roof Coatings and the Cultural Work of Passive Sustainability tiers Consumer Culture, Brand Semiotics, Technological Mediation, Sustainability, Persuasion, Social Identity Adriana Chiñas
Case Studies Food & Beverage Business To Business KFC and the Chicken Wine Pairing tiers Brand Semiotics, Symbolic Consumption, Social Identity, Consumer Culture, Ritual, Cultural Branding Adriana Chiñas
Case Studies Fashion and Apparel Technology Personal Aesthetics Tamagotchi Rings and the Wearable Intimacy of Digital Care tiers Symbolic Consumption, Brand Semiotics, Extended Self, Digital Anthropology, Social Identity, Wearable Technology Adriana Chiñas