Show Bizz Becomes Show Buzz; How Viral Diffusion Changes The
ASSOCIATION FOR CONSUMER RESEARCH Labovitz School of Business & Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth, 11 E. Superior Street, Suite 210, Duluth, MN 55802 Show Bizz Becomes Show Buzz; How Viral Diffusion Changes the Traditional Meaning-Making Process of a Rising Star Kristine de Walck, HEC, France Gachoucha Kretz, HEC, France Dina Rasolofoarison, HEC, France Studying the case of a young French rapper called Kamini, the authors show how the viral diffusion of a new creative product, such as a song, radically changes traditional meaning-making processes. Instead of the top-down approach in which product positioning is carefully constructed and transferred to consumers, marketers are faced with a bottom-up trend in which consumers increasingly participate in blogs and online forums to talk about products (thus, creating and diffusing meaning) before any marketing action is undertaken. Our study aims to understand the interactions and tensions between market forces that result from this pro-active role of the consumer. [to cite]: Kristine de Walck, Gachoucha Kretz, and Dina Rasolofoarison (2007) ,"Show Bizz Becomes Show Buzz; How Viral Diffusion Changes the Traditional Meaning-Making Process of a Rising Star", in E - European Advances in Consumer Research Volume 8, eds. Stefania Borghini, Mary Ann McGrath, and Cele Otnes, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 434-437. [url]: http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/14013/eacr/vol8/E-08 [copyright notice]: This work is copyrighted by The Association for Consumer Research. For permission to copy or use this work in whole or in part, please contact the Copyright Clearance Center at http://www.copyright.com/.
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