This book explores how digital marketing can drive disability inclusion in consumer culture by addressing accessibility, representation, and research methodologies. It offers practical and theoretical insights for academics, practitioners, and policymakers interested in marketing, communication, sociology, and public policy.

The first part, Digital Marketplace Accessibility, examines strategies for reducing the digital divide, including inclusive hiring practices and accessible platform development. The second part, Digital Representation, focuses on how people with disabilities are portrayed in digital media. It analyses topics such as aesthetics, influencer marketing, mental health advocacy, and neurodiversity. The third part, Digital Methodologies, highlights research approaches like netnography and offers reflections on methodological challenges when researching consumers with disabilities. Contributors discuss practices for conducting ethical and inclusive research involving people with disabilities, providing a roadmap for scholars. The final part, Poetic Epilogue, takes a poetic turn, offering an ecopoetic reflection on lived experiences of Alzheimer’s disease.

This book encourages readers to reconsider disability as a complex and intersectional category. It inspires marketers, researchers, and advocates to adopt more inclusive and socially conscious marketing practices, ultimately contributing to a more equitable digital consumer culture.

This book explores how digital marketing can drive disability inclusion in consumer culture by addressing accessibility, representation, and research methodologies. It offers practical and theoretical insights for academics, practitioners, and policymakers interested in marketing, communication, sociology, and public policy.

The first part, Digital Marketplace Accessibility, examines strategies for reducing the digital divide, including inclusive hiring practices and accessible platform development. The second part, Digital Representation, focuses on how people with disabilities are portrayed in digital media. It analyses topics such as aesthetics, influencer marketing, mental health advocacy, and neurodiversity. The third part, Digital Methodologies, highlights research approaches like netnography and offers reflections on methodological challenges when researching consumers with disabilities. Contributors discuss practices for conducting ethical and inclusive research involving people with disabilities, providing a roadmap for scholars. The final part, Poetic Epilogue, takes a poetic turn, offering an ecopoetic reflection on lived experiences of Alzheimer’s disease.

This book encourages readers to reconsider disability as a complex and intersectional category. It inspires marketers, researchers, and advocates to adopt more inclusive and socially conscious marketing practices, ultimately contributing to a more equitable digital consumer culture.

This book explores how everyday stories, media, and symbols shape—and are shaped by—the ways we think about markets, brands, and consumption. Drawing on examples from film, television, music, fairs, and other familiar cultural settings, this book offers fresh perspectives on how marketing operates beyond boardrooms, spreadsheets, and formal strategy. Rather than treating marketing as a self-contained discipline, it goes further by suggesting that brands and marketing are not simply influenced by popular culture but are themselves forms of popular culture. Accessible and engaging, this collection invites readers to see markets not merely as sites of buying and selling, but as cultural spaces where shared stories are told about who we are, what we care about, and how we connect with others.

This book will appeal to a wide range of readers, including students, scholars and professionals interested in subject areas such as marketing, cultural studies, media studies, sociology, anthropology, and consumer behavior. Bringing together leading international scholars, this collection demonstrates how cultural analysis deepens our understanding of contemporary marketing practices worldwide.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Marketing Management.

This book explores how digital marketing can drive disability inclusion in consumer culture by addressing accessibility, representation, and research methodologies. It offers practical and theoretical insights for academics, practitioners, and policymakers interested in marketing, communication, sociology, and public policy.

The first part, Digital Marketplace Accessibility, examines strategies for reducing the digital divide, including inclusive hiring practices and accessible platform development. The second part, Digital Representation, focuses on how people with disabilities are portrayed in digital media. It analyses topics such as aesthetics, influencer marketing, mental health advocacy, and neurodiversity. The third part, Digital Methodologies, highlights research approaches like netnography and offers reflections on methodological challenges when researching consumers with disabilities. Contributors discuss practices for conducting ethical and inclusive research involving people with disabilities, providing a roadmap for scholars. The final part, Poetic Epilogue, takes a poetic turn, offering an ecopoetic reflection on lived experiences of Alzheimer’s disease.

This book encourages readers to reconsider disability as a complex and intersectional category. It inspires marketers, researchers, and advocates to adopt more inclusive and socially conscious marketing practices, ultimately contributing to a more equitable digital consumer culture.

This book explores how digital marketing can drive disability inclusion in consumer culture by addressing accessibility, representation, and research methodologies. It offers practical and theoretical insights for academics, practitioners, and policymakers interested in marketing, communication, sociology, and public policy.

The first part, Digital Marketplace Accessibility, examines strategies for reducing the digital divide, including inclusive hiring practices and accessible platform development. The second part, Digital Representation, focuses on how people with disabilities are portrayed in digital media. It analyses topics such as aesthetics, influencer marketing, mental health advocacy, and neurodiversity. The third part, Digital Methodologies, highlights research approaches like netnography and offers reflections on methodological challenges when researching consumers with disabilities. Contributors discuss practices for conducting ethical and inclusive research involving people with disabilities, providing a roadmap for scholars. The final part, Poetic Epilogue, takes a poetic turn, offering an ecopoetic reflection on lived experiences of Alzheimer’s disease.

This book encourages readers to reconsider disability as a complex and intersectional category. It inspires marketers, researchers, and advocates to adopt more inclusive and socially conscious marketing practices, ultimately contributing to a more equitable digital consumer culture.

This book explores how everyday stories, media, and symbols shape—and are shaped by—the ways we think about markets, brands, and consumption. Drawing on examples from film, television, music, fairs, and other familiar cultural settings, this book offers fresh perspectives on how marketing operates beyond boardrooms, spreadsheets, and formal strategy. Rather than treating marketing as a self-contained discipline, it goes further by suggesting that brands and marketing are not simply influenced by popular culture but are themselves forms of popular culture. Accessible and engaging, this collection invites readers to see markets not merely as sites of buying and selling, but as cultural spaces where shared stories are told about who we are, what we care about, and how we connect with others.

This book will appeal to a wide range of readers, including students, scholars and professionals interested in subject areas such as marketing, cultural studies, media studies, sociology, anthropology, and consumer behavior. Bringing together leading international scholars, this collection demonstrates how cultural analysis deepens our understanding of contemporary marketing practices worldwide.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Marketing Management.