Policy Press

Marketing Science Fictions

An Ethnography of Marketing Analytics, Consumer Insight and Data Science

By Robert Cluley

Published

Dec 1, 2024

Page count

240 pages

ISBN

978-1529233360

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press

Published

Dec 1, 2024

Page count

240 pages

ISBN

978-1529233384

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press
Marketing Science Fictions

Robert Cluley is Associate Professor in Organisation Studies at University of Nottingham.

1. Introduction

2. How marketing learned to love big data

3. Ethnography and marketing work

4. Getting into marketing science

5. Life on the screen and in the kitchen

6. Coding the consumer

7. The feel for the game: Telling stories about numbers

8. Mediation of insight: Platforms, dashboards and chartism

9. The drama of decision: Presenting research

10. “So … what that means”: Marketing science in action

11. Conclusions