The Epistemic Cultures of Product Review Systems

Why do different sources of product reviews often make divergent product quality claims? We theorize these divergences to be emanating from the ‘epistemic cultures’ of product review systems, which we show to consist of four elements: epistemic procedures, epistemology, epistemic values, and epistemic devices.



Citation:

Mikkel Nøjgaard (2021) ,"The Epistemic Cultures of Product Review Systems", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49, eds. Tonya Williams Bradford, Anat Keinan, and Matthew Matthew Thomson, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 32-36.

Authors

Mikkel Nøjgaard, University of Southern Denmark



Volume

NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49 | 2021



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