The Metaverse: A new digital frontier for consumer behavior

R Hadi, S Melumad, ES Park - Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This work offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the Metaverse, focusing on its potential
implications for consumer behavior. We begin by proposing a conceptualization of the …

The digital frontier as a liminal space

R Belk - Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hadi et al.(Journal of Consumer Psychology, 34, 2023) have created a masterful and wide‐
sweeping review of the consumer behavior literature on the Metaverse. They envision our …

Metaverse marketing: How the metaverse will shape the future of consumer research and practice

YK Dwivedi, L Hughes, Y Wang… - Psychology & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The initial hype and fanfare from the Meta Platforms view of how the metaverse could be
brought to life has evolved into an ongoing discussion of not only the metaverse's impact on …

The merchants of meta: A research agenda to understand the future of retailing in the metaverse

K Yoo, R Welden, K Hewett, M Haenlein - Journal of Retailing, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to rapid technological developments, the metaverse is quickly garnering attention from
all areas of retailing. With a projected market of $800 billion by 2024, the metaverse is …

Marketing in the Metaverse: Conceptual understanding, framework, and research agenda

KG Barrera, D Shah - Journal of Business Research, 2023 - Elsevier
A hyper-connected digital universe referred to as the 'metaverse'bears the promise of
fundamentally changing how consumers, brands, and firms will transact and interact in a …

Marketing to postmodern consumers: introducing the internet chameleon

G Simmons - European Journal of Marketing, 2008 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, to provide an overview of postmodern
marketing in the consumer context, integrating the relevant literature around two contrary …

Social interactions in the metaverse: Framework, initial evidence, and research roadmap

T Hennig-Thurau, DN Aliman, AM Herting… - Journal of the Academy …, 2023 - Springer
Real-time multisensory social interactions (RMSIs) between people are at the center of the
metaverse, a new computer-mediated environment consisting of virtual “worlds” in which …

Tracking prosumption work on eBay: Reproduction of desire and the challenge of slow re-McDonaldization

J Denegri-Knott, D Zwick - American Behavioral Scientist, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Ritzer suggests that we are witnessing the emergence of a prosumer society where early
forms of prosumption (the gas station, the automatic teller machine, McDonalds, etc.) are …

In search of the “Meta‐Maven”: An examination of market maven behavior across real‐life, web, and virtual world marketing channels

SJ Barnes, AD Pressey - Psychology & Marketing, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, a new set of channels for consumer and business interaction have emerged—
three‐dimensional “virtual” worlds. This study attempts to better understand the nature of …

Digital consumption and the extended self

R Belk - Journal of Marketing Management, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
There are numerous and substantial effects of the use of digital technologies on consumers.
I focus here on the ways in which these technologies have brought changes to the extended …