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Buying in: What We Buy and Who We Are

Buying in: What We Buy and Who We Are

By Rob Walker

Originally published in hardcover in 2008 with title: Buying in: the secret dialogue between what we buy and who we are.

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Publisher: Random House Trade
Publish Date: 01/05/2010
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780812974096
ISBN-10: 0812974093
Language: English

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Brands are dead. Advertising no longer works. Consumers are in control. Or so we're told. In Buying In, Rob Walker argues that this accepted wisdom misses a much more important cultural shift, including a practice he calls murketing, in which people create brands of their own and participate, in unprecedented ways, in marketing campaigns for their favorites. Yes, rather than becoming immune to them, we are rapidly embracing brands. Profiling Timberland, American Apparel, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Red Bull, iPod, and Livestrong, among others, Walker demonstrates the ways in which buyers adopt products not just as consumer choices but as conscious expressions of their identities. Part marketing primer, part work of cultural anthropology, Buying In reveals why now, more than ever, we are what we buy--and vice versa.

About the Author

Rob Walker writes the weekly column "Consumed," a blend of business journalism and cultural anthropology, for The New York Times Magazine. Previously, he created and wrote the popular "Ad Report Card" column for Slate , and he has contributed to a wide range of publications, from Fast Company and Fortune to The New Republic and AdBusters.

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