Topic
Collectable
About: Collectable is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 133 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1389 citations. The topic is also known as: collectable & collector's item.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine why consumers desire unusual and novel consumption experiences and voluntarily choose leisure activities, vacations, and celebrations that are predicted to be less pleasurable, and argue that choices of collectable (unusual, novel, extreme) experiences lead consumers to feel productive even when they are engaging in leisure activities.
Abstract: This research examines why consumers desire unusual and novel consumption experiences and voluntarily choose leisure activities, vacations, and celebrations that are predicted to be less pleasurable. For example, consumers sometimes choose to stay at freezing ice hotels and to eat at restaurants serving peculiar foods, such as bacon ice cream. We propose that such choices are driven by consumers' continual striving to use time productively, make progress, and reach accomplishments (i.e., a productivity orientation). We argue that choices of collectable (unusual, novel, extreme) experiences lead consumers to feel productive even when they are engaging in leisure activities as they “check off” items on an “experiential check list” and build their “experiential CV.” A series of laboratory and field studies shows that the consumption of collectable experiences is driven and intensified by a (chronic or situational) productivity orientation.
264 citations
Patent•
21 Jun 2005
TL;DR: A system and methods to authenticate collectable items using Unique Identifier (FIG. 1 element 110 ) housed within collectable item or attached to a unique identifier reader ( FIG. 5 element 500 ), and Authentication Authority database (FIG 6 element 680 ) is described in this paper.
Abstract: A system and methods to authenticate collectable items using Unique Identifier (FIG. 1 element 110 ) housed within collectable item (FIG. 1 element 100 ) or attached to collectable item, Unique Identifier reader (FIG. 5 element 500 ), and Authentication Authority database (FIG. 6 element 680 ). Cryptographic techniques and Authentication Unique data (FIG. 8 ) increases the authentication strength of collectable item and establish ownership lineage of collectable item.
97 citations
Book•
28 Feb 2010
TL;DR: The 78 era: creating a collecting constituency The contemporary collector: beyond the High Fidelity stereotype Formats, collectors and the music industry Taste, the canon, and the collectable Collecting practices Record collecting and music press Collector profiles Appendices Bibliography Index.
Abstract: Contents: Introduction The 78 era: creating a collecting constituency The contemporary collector: beyond the High Fidelity stereotype Formats, collectors, and the music industry Taste, the canon, and the collectable Collecting practices Record collecting and the music press Collector profiles Appendices Bibliography Index.
85 citations
TL;DR: This article examined the summary journalism of Time Inc. (the corporate core of the multimedia conglomerate that now also includes America Online, Warner Brothers, and Turner Broadcasting) at a time when mass media have become a primary means by which most people understand the past.
Abstract: This article examines the summary journalism of Time Inc. (the corporate core of the multimedia conglomerate that now also includes America Online, Warner Brothers, and Turner Broadcasting) at a time when mass media have become a primary means by which most people understand the past. The focus of this study is the world's leading magazine company, which pioneered retrospective journalism more than 80 years ago and continues to dominate this practice today. An analysis of its “special issues” and other memory products published over the past two decades reveals a number of rhetorical strategies by which their creators have taken on the work of public historians while creating products that blend the commercial and cultural functions of journalism. The large body of evidence provided by this one company further suggests that media memory products tend to characterize the past in five consistent ways: as permanent, as personal, as memorial, as visual, and as collectable.
66 citations
Patent•
18 Sep 2017
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a method for facilitating management of at least one service agreement associated with a user and a service provider, which may include receiving, using a communication device, a service agreement from a service providers system.
Abstract: Disclosed is a method for facilitating management of at least one service agreement associated with a user and at least one service provider. The method may include receiving, using a communication device, a service agreement from a service provider system. Further, the method may include performing, using a processing device, one or more of analyzing the service agreement, identifying at least one collectable data associated with the user account and identifying at least one action associated with the at least one collectable data. Further, the method may include storing, using a storage device, each of the at least one collectable data and the at least one action in association with the service agreement. Further, the method may include transmitting, using the communication device, each of the at least one collectable data and the at least one action to a user device associated with the user account.
48 citations
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| 2025 | 33 |
| 2024 | 38 |
| 2023 | 45 |
| 2022 | 49 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2020 | 16 |