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A diamond in the rough: Inauthenticity and Gems TV (2022)
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Canavan, B. (2022). A diamond in the rough: Inauthenticity and Gems TV. Marketing Theory, 23(3), 367–384. https://doi.org/10.1177/14705931221137375

This paper explores inauthenticity in the context of the Gems TV shopping channel using existential phenomenology. Objectively, subjectively, and performatively Gems TV fails to convincingly stage a sense of authenticity. This is a televisual format... Read More about A diamond in the rough: Inauthenticity and Gems TV.