TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cluley, Robert
TI  - Marketing science fictions: : an ethnography of marketing analytics, consumer insight, and data science
SN  - 9781529233360
U1  - 658.83 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Bristol
PB  - Bristol University Press
KW  - Marketing analytics
KW  - Consumers behavior
KW  - Data science--Marketing aspects
N1  - Table of Contents:

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
N2  - 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.

(https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/marketing-science-fictions)
ER  -