{"title":"Quantifying Assemblage Theory: A Conceptual, Empirical, and Data-Driven Approach to Guide Discovery","authors":"T. Novak, D. Hoffman","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3754935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3754935","url":null,"abstract":"Inspired by the idea that digital text can support examination of the sociomaterial world, we present a novel computational approach, guided by assemblage theory, to understand the emergence of assemblages of personal automation practices. We overlay assemblage theory on machine learning models for text analysis, clustering, and dimensional reduction to turn these computational models into vehicles for operationalizing the possibility space, points of attraction, and other key assemblage theory constructs. We also use an inductive analysis to deepen the insights from our computational findings. We demonstrate our approach for visualization and discovery on a unique data set of conditional text-based rules of the form “if this, then that,” defining Internet-connected applets that consumers can run to automate events in their daily lives. We uncover 127 personal automation practices and interpret the material roles of their components, as well as the expressive roles that emerge in the realized possibility space. We also show how the full possibility space provides a dynamic dashboard that reifies both what is, as well as what could be. Our results can stimulate additional research and encourage practitioners to look beyond use cases to those underlying points of attraction driving consumers’ deeper needs to automate their lives.","PeriodicalId":107264,"journal":{"name":"MKTG: Culture & Consumer Behavior (Topic)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122236968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Computational Social Science Framework for Learning and Visualizing the Latent Language of Structured IoT Interaction Data","authors":"T. Novak, D. Hoffman","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3278045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3278045","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet of Things (IoT), comprised of billions of smart devices representing trillions of interactions, has the potential to generate entirely new consumer experiences. In this paper, we develop a computational social science framework, grounded in assemblage theory concepts, to extract the shape and structure of consumer experience from the language of IoT interactions rendered as structured text. Our multi-stage framework uniquely integrates methods from computational linguistics (word2vec), unsupervised machine learning (t-SNE), and computational topology (topological data analysis) to: 1) identify and visualize the structure of the segments of consumer experience based on the similarity between IoT interaction events, and 2) for any given IoT interaction event, discover similar events that can further exploit current use and help explore new uses. Because the results are extracted from the actual interactions consumers engage in when they connect devices and services together, in the language in which they connect them, our framework can help consumers expand their use of the IoT and help marketers better target their marketing and communications programs and product and business development efforts.","PeriodicalId":107264,"journal":{"name":"MKTG: Culture & Consumer Behavior (Topic)","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126162705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Azərbaycan Respublikasinin Yeyinti Sənayesinin Təkmilləşdirmə İstiqamətləri (Improvement Directions of Food Industry of the Republic of Azerbaijan)","authors":"Seymur M. Guliyev, R. Abutalibov","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2743074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2743074","url":null,"abstract":"Azerbaijani Abstract: Olkə iqtisadiyyatinin əsas sənayelərindən biri yeyinti sənayesidir və Azərbaycan Respublikasinin yeyinti sənayesidə olkə iqtisadiyyatinin əsasini təskil edən sənayelərdəndir. Azərbaycan mustəqilliyini əldə etdikdən sonra digər sənayelər kimi yeyinti sənayesi də inkisaf etməyə basladi. Məhz bunun nəticəsində Azərbaycanin yeyinti və qida sənayesinin idxaldan asililigi getdikcə azalmaga baslamisdir. Azərbaycanin təbii resurslarinin bollugu yeyinti sənayesini stimullasdirir. Olkə rəhbərliyinin dəstəyi ilə mutəmadi olaraq təsdiq edilən dovlət proqramlari və təskil edilən yeyinti və qida sərgiləri olkənin yeyinti sənayesinin sabit və adekvat ərzaq təklifinin formalasdirilmasina, səmərəli istehsal və satis infrastrukturunun yaradilmasina, ərzaq məhsullarinin keyfiyyətinə nəzarət sisteminin təkmilləsdirilməsinə və hər bir vətəndasin ərzaq təhlukəsizliyinin təmin olunmasina yonəldilmisdir.English Abstract: Food industry is one of the main industries of a country economy, hence food industry is one of the fundamental industries of Azerbaijan economy. After Azerbaijan gains its independency, food industry started to develop like other industries. As a result of it, dependency on import started to decrease. Having great natural resources encourage country’s food industry. Frequently confirmed state programs and organized food exhibitions by the government allow forming an adequate product supply, creating effective production and sales infrastructure, improving controlling systems for product quality and food security for each citizen of the country.","PeriodicalId":107264,"journal":{"name":"MKTG: Culture & Consumer Behavior (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130349832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study and Analysis of Standards of Five-Star Hotels Compared to the Dimensions of Luxury","authors":"Salma Zneidi, Nessrine Khazmi, T. Abdellatif","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2546765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2546765","url":null,"abstract":"A summary of the cognitive and emotional dimensions can lead to better understanding of the perception of a luxury hotel. This study confirms the idea that the perception of luxury value is influenced not only by the social purpose aussi by financial, functional and individual aspects. This study showed that the norms and standards of the hotels are not always synonymous with luxury. Therefore, an empirical study was done. This study shows that customers in the hospitality sector have different perceptions of luxury of five star hotels and that the standards of stars is not enough to be used in measuring the luxury of hotels.","PeriodicalId":107264,"journal":{"name":"MKTG: Culture & Consumer Behavior (Topic)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121386025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Concept Analysis of Modern and Conventional Branding Models","authors":"Gaurav Gupta","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2320403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2320403","url":null,"abstract":"Branding is an ever-popular topic for research and managerial discussion. In modern branding discourse, there are four dominant models of branding: mind-share, emotional, viral and cultural branding. The study was conducted using concept analysis, more specifically through differentiating between a concept’s intention and extension, through dissecting different manifestations of each concept.","PeriodicalId":107264,"journal":{"name":"MKTG: Culture & Consumer Behavior (Topic)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121020961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}