Resources Library by ANA

Look who's talking?!

Twitter celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and it has rapidly become part of our everyday language; hashtags are everywhere, from the menu at your local restaurant to the evening news. But - exactly how has Twitter impacted our culture and the...

Catalogue: Global Qualitative 2016: The Business Value of Intelligent Stories

Authors: Sara Picazo Lutton, Cecily Long

Companies: Flamingo, Twitter

November 16, 2016

Domestic dudes

This paper focuses on the manifestation of masculinity in the domestic space in India, one that demonstrates signs of reduction of gender differences and of emergence of alternative domestic masculinity that actively engages itself with everyday...

Catalogue: Global Qualitative 2016: The Business Value of Intelligent Stories

Author: Sandeep Dutta

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

November 16, 2016

The Karma of give & take

Powerful forces of culture can impact the adoption of the modern notion of e-commerce. In India, myths that date back a thousand years still affect the psyche in relation to e-commerce. It would be misleading to assume that the trajectory of...

Catalogue: Global Qualitative 2015: Creative! Collaborative! Cool!

Authors: Raji Bonala, Abhijit Patnaik, Misha Mathew

November 18, 2015

The future fan

A colourful and thought provoking study on why people become fans, and the social and cultural currency to be gained from fandom, 'The Future Fan' project maps three stages in the evolution of the music fan. From niche interest treated with suspicion...

Catalogue: Global Qualitative 2015: Creative! Collaborative! Cool!

Authors: Gemma Proctor, Andy Crysell

Company: Twitter

November 18, 2015

Understanding women

51% of people in the world are women, but Baileys is the only brand in Diageo’s portfolio that recognises them as a consumer. It was time for a new perspective and Diageo came to us to help them open their eyes to what women really want...

Catalogue: Congress 2015: Revelations

Authors: Christene McCauley, Izzy Pugh

October 1, 2015

Cultural anchoring

Managing the complexities of brand architecture has never been more challenging. Product commoditisation and competitive intensification have heightened the importance of building deep brand connections with target audiences. Meanwhile, market...

Catalogue: Congress 2014: What Inspires?

Authors: Neale Cotton, Julian Dunne

Company: The Lab Strategy & Planning

September 10, 2014

Mapping and interpreting socio-cultural change in urban India

As urban India continues to transform at a rapid pace, brands across categories seek to build relevance by positioning themselves on platforms linked to the new meanings and ways of being in a fast-changing society. A semiotic analysis of the...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2014: Celebrating Asian Creativity

Author: Satyam Viswanathan

May 13, 2014

The essence of aroma

Research has shown that food choices made by an individual is a result of a complex interaction of a range of factors. Flavour preference, an expression of food choice, is an output of these interactions. This paper examines the influence of cultural...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2014: Celebrating Asian Creativity

Authors: Manjunath Desai, Geeta R. Lobo

Company: GfK

May 13, 2014

Live semiotics

Semiotics is constantly engaging with digital culture as it seeks to identify emergent codes in culture and communications. However, until now no one seems to have used, to a significant extent, specific digital tools for semiotic research. This...

Catalogue: Latin America 2014: Accelerating Growth

Author: Gemma Jones

Company: Space Doctors Ltd

April 4, 2014