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Marketing Science Fictions

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This book explores data science in practice through an ethnographic study at a global marketing technology and research firm. The book shows that, while businesses have embraced data science metho...
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  • 14 January 2025
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This book explores data science in practice through an ethnographic study at a global marketing technology and research firm.

The book shows that, while businesses have embraced data science methods to understand markets and consumers, in practice they produce too much information. Consequently, they must be combined with creative practices that simplify and make sense of analytics. Cluley shows that in the age of data science, business is increasingly artistic. In this case, marketing science is more like marketing science fiction.

This is essential reading for understanding contemporary data-driven business and marketing as well as social and economic relations in the age of surveillance capitalism, with lessons for academics and students of marketing, technology and data science.

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Price: $119.95
Pages: 192
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publication Date: 14 January 2025
ISBN: 9781529233360
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, Organizational theory and behaviour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Marketing / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, Online marketing / Social media marketing, Information technology industries
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Robert Cluley is Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Birmingham, UK.

1. Introduction

2. The Ethnographic Classics

3. Marketing in the Wild

4. Studying Marketing Ethnographically

5. Marketing Work

6. Clients Get Hung Up on a Number

7. Scientism in Action

8. Marketing Outsight

9. Artistic Qualification

10. The Art of Data

11. Marketing Science Fiction