by laurie | Oct 5, 2017 | Lifestyle & Consumption
In 2017 alone, 1.3 trillion photos (1012) are expected to be taken, compared to around 90 billion in 2000 and 350 billion in 2010. Every day, 350 million photos are shared on Facebook and 80 million on Instagram. Every minute, 300 hours of videos are uploaded...
by laurie | May 11, 2017 | Lifestyle & Consumption
While self-portraiture is nearly as old as art itself, the photographic selfie emerged as a globally recognized phenomenon only recently, as a result of the rising “attention economy” and its growing appetite for likes, followers, retweets and fame. Google...
by laurie | Dec 9, 2016 | Lifestyle & Consumption
What makes a simple wine, grown in a rather mediocre wine-growing region, one of the most famous and magical icons of today? How did champagne establish such a unique position, against all the odds, and become the global symbol of celebration? After all any birthday,...
by laurie | May 25, 2016 | Lifestyle & Consumption
The question of ‘timeflow’, or the pace of the customer experience, has long impacted consumers’ perceptions of products and has been capitalised on by companies and researchers to improve their services. Yet despite this, little is currently know about just...
by laurie | Mar 2, 2016 | Lifestyle & Consumption
“Everyone is afraid of being uberised”. The words of Maurice Levy in the Financial Times in December 2014 first brought the term uberisation to public attention. Since then this term has been used to describe a variety of phenomena, which are all...
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