“…Interpretive studies recently published in two of the leading journals in the field, the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Consumer Behaviour, are mainly based on personal interviews, group interviews, some degree of ethnographic/netnographic immersion including (participant) observation, photography, collection and content analysis of material or virtual artefacts, or a mix of these methods (i.e. Davies and Fitchett, 2004;Piacentini and Mailer, 2004;Bardhi and Arnould, 2005;Johnstone and Conroy, 2005;Rosenbaum, 2005;Stevens and Maclaran, 2005;McKechnie and Tynan, 2006;Piacentini and Banister, 2006; see also the CCT studies reviewed in Arnould and Thompson, 2005).…”