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Overview

Robert V. Kozinets is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences, with a strong focus on sociology and political science, marketing, gender studies, human-computer interaction, and communication.

The main topics of their work include digital marketing and social media, consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification, gender, feminism, and media, digital games and media, service and product innovation, media studies and communication, and digital communication and language.

Among the recent papers published by Robert V. Kozinets are:

  • Immersive netnography: a novel method for service experience research in virtual reality, augmented reality and metaverse contexts (2022, Journal of service management)
  • How Do Platforms Empower Consumers? Insights from the Affordances and Constraints of Reclame Aqui (2021, Journal of Consumer Research)
  • Commentary: Artificial Intelligence: The Marketer's Dilemma (2020, Journal of Marketing)
  • Netnography evolved: New contexts, scope, procedures and sensibilities (2023, Annals of Tourism Research)
  • Consumer movements, brand activism, and the participatory politics of media: A conversation (2021, Journal of Consumer Culture)

Robert V. Kozinets has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including:

  • Ulrike Gretzel (7 joint works)
  • Russell W. Belk (4 joint works)
  • Rossella Chiara Gambetti (3 joint works)
  • Rachel Ashman (2 joint works)
  • Anthony Patterson (2 joint works)

Their work has been published repeatedly in several venues, with notable frequency in the Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Service Management, European Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Marketing.

In addition to journal articles, Robert V. Kozinets has contributed to book publications, including a work titled "Agentic Netnography" released in 2022 under the publisher New Trends in Qualitative Research.

Best Publications

  • The Field Behind the Screen: Using Netnography for Marketing Research in Online Communities

    Robert V. Kozinets

  • Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online

    Robert V. Kozinets

  • E-tribalized Marketing?: The Strategic Implications of Virtual Communities of Consumption

    Robert V Kozinets

  • Teaching Old Brands New Tricks: Retro Branding and the Revival of Brand Meaning

    Stephen Brown;Robert V. Kozinets;John F. Sherry

  • Can Consumers Escape the Market? Emancipatory Illuminations from Burning Man

    Robert V. Kozinets

  • Utopian Enterprise: Articulating the Meanings of Star Trek’s Culture of Consumption

    Robert V. Kozinets

  • Adversaries of Consumption: Consumer Movements, Activism, and Ideology

    Robert V. Kozinets;Jay M. Handelman

  • On Netnography: Initial Reflections on Consumer Research Investigations of Cyberculture

    Robert V. Kozinets

  • The Wisdom of Consumer Crowds Collective Innovation in the Age of Networked Marketing

    Robert V. Kozinets;Andrea Hemetsberger;Hope Jensen Schau

  • Networked Narratives: Understanding Word-of-Mouth Marketing in Online Communities

    Robert Kozinets;Andrea C. Wojnicki;Sarah J. S. Wilner;Kristine De Valck

  • Themed flagship brand stores in the new millennium: theory, practice, prospects

    Robert V Kozinets;John F Sherry;Benet DeBerry-Spence;Adam Duhachek

  • Qualitative Consumer and Marketing Research

    Russell W Belk;Eileen Fischer;Robert V Kozinets

  • Ludic Agency and Retail Spectacle

    Robert V. Kozinets;John F. Sherry;Diana Storm;Adam Duhachek

  • Click to Connect: Netnography and Tribal Advertising

    Robert V. Kozinets

  • Ensouling Consumption: a Netnographic Exploration of the Meaning of Boycotting Behavior

    Robert V. Kozinets;Jay Handelman

  • American Girl and the Brand Gestalt: Closing the Loop on Sociocultural Branding Research:

    Nina Diamond;John F. Jr. Sherry;Albert M. Jr. Muñiz;Mary Ann McGrath

  • Why Are Themed Brandstores So Powerful? Retail Brand Ideology at American Girl Place

    Stefania Borghini;Nina Diamond;Robert V. Kozinets;Mary Ann McGrath

  • Networks of Desire: How Technology Increases Our Passion to Consume

    Robert Kozinets;Anthony Patterson;Rachel Ashman

  • Lateral Exchange Markets: How Social Platforms Operate in a Networked Economy

    Rebeca Perren;Robert V. Kozinets

  • Immersive netnography: a novel method for service experience research in virtual reality, augmented reality and metaverse contexts

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  • Technology/Ideology: How Ideological Fields Influence Consumers’ Technology Narratives

    Robert V. Kozinets

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry Jenkins
Henry Jenkins University of Southern California
Cornelia Pechmann
Cornelia Pechmann University of California, Irvine
Stephen Brown
Stephen Brown University of Ulster
Gavan J. Fitzsimons
Gavan J. Fitzsimons Duke University

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