TY - BOOK ID - 52589876 TI - Point of sale AU - Herbert, Daniel AU - Johnson, Derek PY - 2020 SN - 0813595525 0813595541 9780813595542 9780813595528 9780813595535 0813595533 0813595568 9780813595566 PB - New Brunswick, New Jersey DB - UniCat KW - Selling KW - Mass media KW - Retail trade KW - Electronic commerce KW - Economic aspects KW - E-books KW - Cybercommerce KW - E-business KW - E-commerce KW - E-tailing KW - eBusiness KW - eCommerce KW - Electronic business KW - Internet commerce KW - Internet retailing KW - Online commerce KW - Web retailing KW - Commerce KW - Information superhighway KW - Retail industry KW - Retailing KW - Marketing KW - Shopping centers KW - Wholesale trade KW - Electronic commerce. KW - Retail trade. KW - Economic aspects. KW - Mass media. KW - Mass media Economic aspects KW - Mass Media KW - Retail Trade KW - Electronic Commerce KW - Business & Economics KW - Business & economics KW - Sale, media retail, popular culture, consumers, consumer culture, digital age, books, DVDs, video games, lifestyle products, toys, media circulation, digital platforms, retail institutions, contemporary culture industries, media. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:52589876 AB - Point of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars with their fingers on the pulse of both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and the history that has made retail a fundamental part of the culture industries. The book reveals why retail matters as a site of transactional significance to industries as well as a crucial locus of meaning and interactional participation for consumers. In addition to examining how industries connect books, DVDs, video games, lifestyle products, toys, and more to consumers, it also interrogates the changes in media circulation driven by the collision of digital platforms with existing retail institutions. By grappling with the contexts in which we buy media, Point of Sale uncovers the underlying tensions that define the contemporary culture industries. ER -