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Journal of Consumer Culture

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The Journal of Consumer Culture is fully peer reviewed journal, that supports and promotes the continuing expansion in interdisciplinary research focused on consumption and consumer culture, opening up debates and areas of exploration. Global in perspective and drawing on both theory and empirical research, the journal reflects the need to engage critically with modern consumer culture and to understand its central role in contemporary social processes.

The Journal of Consumer Culture brings together articles from the many social sciences and humanities in which consumer culture has become a significant focus. It also engages with overarching contemporary perspectives on social transformation, all of which give an unprecedented importance to consumption in understanding social processes at both local and global levels.

The Journal of Consumer Culture covers a wide range of topics relating consumer culture to issues such as:

• globalization

• shopping and marketing

• the body

• ecommerce and the information society

• social divisions of gender, class, sexuality and ethnicity

• commodification

• aestheticisation and virtuality

• science and technology studies

• environmental critiques

• popular and material culture

• identity

• taste, style and fashion

• classical and contemporary social theory

• economic sociology

• work

• production and design

• media and cultural consumption

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? Current Issue

Journal of Consumer Culture為季刊，最新一期(Volume 25 Issue 4, November 2025)共5篇文章，詳情如下。

Articles

Journal of Consumer Culture

Miss AI beauty pageant: A milestone in the convergence of technology, beauty, and social norms

Bo-Chiuan Su

The inaugural Miss AI beauty pageant represents a pivotal moment in the intersection of artificial intelligence, beauty standards, and social norms. This study explores the implications of AI-generated Key Opinion Leaders versus human models within a contemporary beauty framework, emphasizing the transformative effects on audience perceptions and traditional pageant formats. Highlighting the intricacies of social media influence and the ethical dimensions of AI integration, this paper interrogates the evolving definitions of beauty and authenticity in a digital age increasingly dominated by algorithms. Our analysis reveals that while AI models can enrich diversity, they also risk perpetuating harmful stereotypes and unrealistic beauty ideals. By examining case studies and empirical metrics, we aim to provide invaluable insights for understanding the socio-economic and ethical challenges that both traditional and AI-enhanced beauty representations introduce. Through this exploration, the Miss AI pageant emerges not only as a cultural phenomenon but as a catalyst for critical discourse on inclusivity, representation, and the future of the beauty industry.

The making of the upgrade money: Home, Turkish housewives and digital secondhand marketplaces

Asude Aydagul

In the marketplace, money serves as a utilitarian tool, but when it enters the home, it takes on different social and cultural meanings depending on its origin, earner, and allocation. In today’s digital landscape, digital platforms facilitate the conversion of domestic items and activities into commodities, creating new forms of money with unique meanings. Drawing upon Zelizer’s “special monies” model and recent research on platform-earned money, this qualitative study explores the meaning of an emerging form of money earned by Turkish housewives engaging in digital secondhand marketplaces (DSMs). Through thirteen in-depth interviews, DSM money is investigated across three dimensions: its domestic origins, the earners themselves, and the allocation patterns. The study introduces “upgrade money” as special money derived from the “commodification of home”—the transformation of their culturally designated domain into a source of income and power. While upgrade money operates as an undervalued domestic currency, housewives strategically use it to enhance the social status of their homes, children, and themselves while maintaining sociocultural norms. Although their connection to the domestic sphere persists, housewives perceive this transformation as empowering, shifting from “cashless money managers” to strategic investors. This study demonstrates how digital platforms can enable meaningful perceived empowerment within traditional constraints.

Vulgar things: Moral dilemmas of luxury consumption in an unequal society

Brandaan Huigen

There are discussions in South Africa, the world’s most unequal society, about the morality of consuming and displaying luxuries. Anger is especially directed at political elites eager to display their expensive trappings, while others can barely survive. This article considers the negative consequences of conspicuous consumption in South Africa by analysing instances of discontent being directed at political elites and their possessions of luxury brands. I argue that such luxuries can become ‘vulgar’ in unequal South Africa especially when consumed by political elites thought to be hypocritical, when positioned within socioeconomic crisis and when regarded as the proceeds of theft. Ultimately, luxuries that remain detached from effective redistribution, which helps to soften tensions that arise from social hierarchies in human societies, become egregious. Finally, I consider why, despite their vulgarity in South Africa, many political elites continue to publicly display luxury goods.

Consumption, migration, and urban life

Mark Jayne, Wu Siying, Wu Chenhui

Despite voluminous attention across the social sciences consumption, migration, and urban life remains under-theorised and -researched. In response we pursue critical opportunities afforded by pluralistic blending of relational ontologies elaborated through interrogation of empirical research focused on migrant building workers in China. In doing so we sketch new terrain for interdisciplinary debate via ethnographies of future-orientated consumption practices enabled through mundane (im)mobilities that unfold across diverse times and spaces. Overall, we show how study of consumption can advance momentum in challenging de-humanising impulses that have tended to eclipse complexities of migration, and migrants’ everyday lives within and beyond cities. Concluding, we offer theoretical, methodological, empirical reflections and signpost future research directions.

The garden party: Refrains on literature as consumer research

Koushiki Choudhury

This study is a foray into the inclusion of literature in the domain of consumer and social research with an exploration of the story “The Garden party” by Katherine Mansfield. The study is one of the first to provide a reference point for the use of literature as a methodological tool and data source in consumer and social research, in advancing our understanding of consumerism, consumption, culture, social class differences and the tensions of social class. The paper provides a springboard for considering the power of literature and humanities-inspired deliberation in generating insights about consumption behaviour and social values towards a sustainable society and responsible entertainment by giving voice to emotions that are voiceless. This could expand the frontiers of consumer research, enhance inclusivity, compassion and social justice, helping to rethink our unbalanced societal relationships. The study reflects on the refrains of expanding our consciousness towards humane behaviour and fostering a social consciousness in consumers and society.

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