Case Studies Fashion and Apparel Food & Beverage Retail and Shopping Walmart: Wearing the Rotisserie Chicken Fandom tiers Symbolic Consumption, Brand Semiotics, Social Identity, Material Culture, Reference Groups, Digital Anthropology, Campaigns Adriana Chiñas
Case Studies Technology Art & Culture Ticketmaster: Building the Fan’s Cultural Map tiers Consumer Culture, Brand Semiotics, Social Identity, Digital Anthropology, Algorithmic Consumption, Platform Logics Adriana Chiñas
Case Studies Technology Hohem Eyepic: Filming From the Body tiers Consumer Culture, Brand Semiotics, Social Identity, Digital Anthropology, Affordances, Market Entry, Cameras Adriana Chiñas
Case Studies Health & Wellbeing Technology Personal Aesthetics Business To Business Dyson CameraJet: Engineering Better Brushing Habits tiers Symbolic Consumption, Brand Semiotics, Datafication, Processing Fluency, Social Identity, Consumer Culture Adriana Chiñas
Case Studies Mobility and Transport Technology XPeng's Second-Generation VLA and the Cultural Reframing of the Autonomous Car tiers Autonomous Driving, Brand Semiotics, Consumer Culture, Digital Anthropology, Category Innovation, Human-Machine Mediation Adriana Chiñas
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