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Consumer Tribes and Communities
Stephan Dahl
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Why does technology get adopted?
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Social Media
• Which social needs does social media fulfil?
• What is the perceived usefulness?– Self-portrayal – Keeping people ‘updated’– Connecting with existing friends– Finding new friends
• What is the link between consumption and social behaviours?
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Rethinking Consumption
• From a narrow focus of exchange– Purchase-focused– Simple, but ignores consumer involvement
• To a broader focus of consumption– Extends experience beyond the purchase– Focuses on consumer involvement and
consumer experience– Consumer is actively shaping the experience
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Consumer Culture Theory
• Emerged during the 1980s, though rooted in the 1960s/70s
• Four stages of consumption:
1.Preconsumption stage
2.Purchasing Stage
3.Core Consumption Stage
4.Remembered Consumption Stage
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Social Context
• Rise of individualism• Loss of norms and social coherence• Individuals need to seek alternative social
arrangements• Subcultures emerge as a way of belonging
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Subcultures
• Historically away from the mainstream• But increasingly the mainstream• Subcultures of consumption:
subculture like groups, defined by common consumption patterns
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(Neo-)Tribes
• Maffesoli describes ‘tribal behaviours’• Fluid membership• Three functions:
1. Sharing of functional knowledge
2. Place of social bonding
3. Creation of collective rules
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Tribes challenge Marketing Concepts
• Tribe members not clearly defined• Often heterogenous members in other
aspects• Interconnected• Active • Different to ‘segments’ – although often
confused