Emotion and Engagement Across the Idol Spectrum: Comparing Virtual and Human Idols
ABSTRACT The increasing adoption of virtual idols in entertainment platforms raises critical questions about how viewers respond to their emotional performances compared to human idols. Despite their growing presence, little is known about whether and how emotional expressivity differs across performer modalities and content formats, or how these ...
Lin Kim +4 more
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Editorial: Women in performance science. [PDF]
Yoshie M +3 more
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Artificial Voices, Real Causes: The Dilemma of Virtual Influencer‐Driven Brand Activism
ABSTRACT Brands are more frequently adopting virtual influencers (VIs) to lead activism campaigns. However, little is known about when and how such activism effectively drives consumer engagement. This research, in Study 1, examines 14,464 Instagram posts from 18 diverse VIs using large‐scale analytics to assess engagement intensity and the dynamics of
Sampa Anupurba Pahi +4 more
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Tuning in: How Hearing Loss and Assistive Devices Reshape Musical Quality of Life. [PDF]
Bleckly F +4 more
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Loneliness and the Customer Journey: Toward a Framework for Customer Experience Management
ABSTRACT How can customer experience (CX) frameworks be used to understand and support service firms to mitigate loneliness and social isolation? This paper addresses this question by developing the Lonely Customer Journey, a conceptual framework that uses the Touchpoints‐Context‐Qualities (TCQ) framework (De Keyser et al.
Nina Veflen, Lars Witell, Lars Fuglsang
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Patterns and Predictors of Children's Musical Engagement From an Aotearoa NZ Longitudinal Cohort. [PDF]
Evans RJ, Yeom D, Tao A, Ip RHL, Dean B.
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Consumer Cultural Renaissance: Conceptualisation, Scale Development, and Validation
ABSTRACT As incessant globalisation leads to the pervasive erosion of traditional Asian culture by Western consumerism, a recent phenomenon has emerged that allures Asian consumers to reconnect with their traditional culture via consumption. We postulate that this behaviour is rooted in a self‐identity, consumer cultural renaissance (CCR), that has not
Richard Lee +3 more
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Is there a "mind" behind the music? Attributing music to AI can suppress narrative meaning-making. [PDF]
Wu SH, Holmes KJ.
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Manufacturing Nostalgia in the Digital Age: A Foreverism Perspective
ABSTRACT Many scholars argue that we are experiencing the era of “retro”—nostalgia‐driven marketing and consumption phenomena reinforced by digital technologies. However, existing research lacks a critical analysis of nostalgia in contemporary markets and of how digital content, tools, and environments transform retro consumption experiences and alter ...
Dinara Davlembayeva +4 more
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Culturally and trauma-informed music therapy: approaches for school settings illustrated through descriptive cases from Norway, the United States and South Africa. [PDF]
Murphy KM +4 more
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