TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rottinghaus,Adam Richard
TI  - Upgrade culture and technological change: the business of the future 
T2  - Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture
SN  - 9781003193869
U1  - 658.8/72 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Internet marketing
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Business communication
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Social media
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications Industries
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Marketing / General
N2  - "This book explores the origin and future of "upgrade culture," a collection of cultural habits and orientations based on the assumption that new technologies will rapidly, perpetually, and inevitably emerge. By analyzing discourses of technological change and the practices of marketing workers inside the consumer technology industry between the early 1980s and the late 2010s, the book describes the genesis, maintenance, and future of upgrade culture. Based on archival and popular sources, first-hand interviews with a range of industry professionals, and participant observations at industry-only events, the book attends to issues both intimate to the culture of marketing work and structural to the organization of the consumer technology industry. This book will have a broad appeal to social/cultural theorists of technology, marketing, and consumerism, as well as to scholars in business history, communication, cultural studies, media studies, sociology, and anthropology"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003193869
ER  -