Robert Cluley – författare

As a subject, advertising affects us all - it surrounds us every day. Yet there is a great deal of variety in the way advertising is interpreted, and practitioners and academics from different backgrounds and disciplines study advertising in vastly different ways. For example, psychologists try to understand what happens to our brains when we see adverts, while economists try to understand whether money spent on advertising is worth it. Essentials of Advertising is designed to help students navigate their way through the field of advertising. It will introduce readers to the key concepts of advertising as they have been developed not only by psychologists and economists, but also by sociologists, historians, marketers and media researchers - not to mention advertising practitioners themselves. Meticulously researched, Essentials of Advertising will allow readers to understand not just what different research traditions say about advertising, but why they say it. This will help students develop key analytic skills to critically evaluate and exploit existing research on advertising, based on a greater understanding of where it comes from. This allows them to develop greater perception and awareness professionally, and acts as a springboard for students to jump into the wider area of advertising studies and to develop their careers according to their interests. Online resources include lecture slides, self-test questions, group activities, figures, and case studies for specific chapters, plus web links to industry body research and relevant further reading.

This new major work on critical marketing studies adopts a multi-disciplinary and international approach to a subject which has flourished over the past few years. Bringing together papers from a wide range of academic outlets - from both inside and outside of the traditional resources of the marketing discipline - the experienced editorial team of Mark Tadajewski and Robert Cluley have provided an invaluable service to scholars who cannot themselves spend the considerable time it takes to familiarise themselves with the spectrum of scholarship in this domain. The four-volume collection speaks to important emerging trends in the field; specifically with regard to the connections between critical marketing, contemporary theories of emotional, aesthetic and sexual labour, critical social marketing, macromarketing and political economy. Volume One: Critical Marketing and Critiques of MarketingVolume Two: Conceptual and Ethical CritiquesVolume Three: Power, Resistance and Marketplace BoundariesVolume Four: The Structuring of Marketing and Consumer Practice

This book explores data science in practice through an ethnographic study at a global marketing technology and research firm. The book shows that, while businesses have embraced data science methods to understand markets and consumers, in practice they produce too much information. Consequently, they must be combined with creative practices that simplify and make sense of analytics. Cluley shows that in the age of data science, business is increasingly artistic. In this case, marketing science is more like marketing science fiction.This is essential reading for understanding contemporary data-driven business and marketing as well as social and economic relations in the age of surveillance capitalism, with lessons for academics and students of marketing, technology and data science.