Abstract
Studies of marketing systems and those of social media are valuable contributions to macromarketing but are not frequently connected. This commentary posits that social media markets are characterized by distinctive properties which require new perspectives from traditional marketing systems. In particular, three dichotomies are presented: customers vs consumers, data vs. information, and sovereignty vs subjects.
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