Books
Social Lightscapes Workshops: social research in design for lighting professionals, with Elettra Bordonaro and Joanne Entwistle. iGuzzini Workshop serie. Ancona, Italy (2018).
New Media, Development and Globalization: Making Connections in the Global South. Cambridge: Polity Press (2013).
Research: ICT Innovations for Poverty Reduction, with Jo Tacchi. New Delhi: UNESCO (2004)
The Technological Economy. (2005), with Dr Andrew Barry, Department of Geography, Oxford. Routledge. Edited collection, expanded version of special issue of Economy and Society 31 (2) (2002)
Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Thought. (2001), with Fran Tonkiss. Polity Press.
The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. (2000) with Prof Daniel Miller, Department of Anthropology, University College London. Oxford: Berg.
Consumer Culture and Modernity. (1997) Cambridge: Polity Press.
Articles
Don Slater, Sean Nixon & Liz McFall (2021): Strategic ambiguity: a roundtable on cultural economy and consumer culture, Journal of Cultural Economy, DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1958901
Slater DR (2020) Against human-centred lighting. Lightecture 35.
Bordonaro E and Slater DR (2019) Place make-up or place making? ArredoCittà_2_2019. Arredo & Citta 2. Epub ahead of print 1 January 2019.
Entwistle J and Slater DR (2019) Making space for ‘the social’ in the material culture of light: Social thinking and design practice. British Journal of Sociology 70(5): 2020–2041.
Bordonaro E, Entwistle J and Slater DR (2019) The social study of urban lighting. In: Davoudian N (ed.) Urban Lighting for People: Evidence-Based Lighting Design for the Built Environment. London: RIBA Publishing.
Slater DR (2018) Lighing and Social Inequalities. Lighting Journal: 30–32.
Slater, D. R. & Entwistle, J. (2018) Light as material/lighting as practice: Urban lighting and energy. Science Museum Group Journal (9).
Entwistle, J. and Bordonaro, E. and Slater, D. R. (2018) The social study of urban lighting. In: Davoudian, N. (ed.) Urban Lighting for people: evidence-based lighting design for the built environment. RIBA Publishing, London.
Entwistle, J., Slater, D. R. & Sloane, M. (2015) Derby. In: Isenstadt, S., Dietrich Neumann & Petty, M. M. (eds.) Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination. Routledge, New York, pp. 159–164.
Slater, D. R. (2014) Ambiguous goods and nebulous things. Journal of Consumer Behaviour 13 (2), 99–107.
Entwistle, J. and D. R. Slater (2013) ‘Reassembling the cultural: fashion models, brands and the meaning of 'culture' after ANT’, Journal of Cultural Economy.
Entwistle, J. and D. R. Slater (2012) ‘Models as brands: critical thinking about bodies and images’, in J. Entwistle and E. Wissinger (eds.), Fashioning Models: Image, Text and Industry. Oxford: Berg: 15-33.
Slater, D. R. (2011) ‘Between culture and economy: the impossible place of marketing’, in D. Zwick and J. Cayla (eds.), Inside Marketing. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 23-41.
Schor, J. B., D. Slater, S. Zukin and V. A. Zelizer (2010) ‘Critical and Moral Stances in Consumer Studies’, Journal of Consumer Culture July 2010 (10): 274-91.
Slater, D. R. (2009) ‘The ethics of routine: consciousness, tedium and value ’, in E. Shove, F. Trentmann and R. Wilk (eds.), Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture. Oxford: Berg.
'Assembling Asturias: Scaling devices and cultural leverage', with T. Ariztia-Larrain in I. Farias and T. Bender (eds.), Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies London: Routledge. (2009)
'Glimpsing God in the Internet', in D. Held and H. Moore (eds.), Cultural Politics. Cambridge: Polity Press. (2008)
Slater, D. R. and D. Miller (2007) ‘Moments and Movements in the Study of Consumer Culture: A discussion between Daniel Miller and Don Slater’, Journal of Consumer Culture (7): 5-23.
'Consumption and Lifestyle', in C.Calhoun, B.Turner and C.Rojek (eds), Handbook of Sociology. London: Sage (2005)
'Comparative ethnography of new media', with Daniel Miller, in J. Curran and M. Gurevitch (eds), Mass Media and Society. London: Hodder Arnold. (2005)
'Anthropology', with Daniel Miller and Lucy Suchman, in M. Price and L. Nussenbaum (eds), The Academy and Internet. New York: Peter Lang. (2004)
'Markets, materiality and the "new economy " ' , in S. Metcalfe and A.Warde (eds), Market Relations and the Competitive Process. Manchester: Manchester University Press (2003)
'Modernity Under Construction: building the Internet in Trinidad', in P.Brey, T.Misa and A.Rip (eds), Modernity and Technology: The Empirical Turn. Boston: MIT Press. (2003)
'Social relationships and identity on/off-line', in L. Lievrouw and S. Livingstone (eds.), Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs. (2002) London: Sage
'Capturing markets from the economists', in P. d. Gay and M. Pryke (eds.), Cultural Economies (2002) London: Sage
'Making things real: ethics and order on the Internet', Special issue of Theory, Culture and Society. In press: (July 2002)
'From calculation to alienation: disentangling economic abstractions', Economy and Society 31 (2). (April 2002)
'Existentialism with a Historical Imagination: A Roundtable Discussion with Agnes Heller and Marshall Berman', with Sam Binkley. Journal of Consumer Culture 2(1). (2002)
'Political discourse and the politics of need: discourses on the good life in cyberspace', in L. Bennett and R. Entman (eds.), Mediated Politics (2000), London: Cambridge University Press
'Consumption without scarcity: exchange and normativity in an internet setting', P Jackson, M Lowe, D. Miller and F Mort (eds.), Commercial Cultures: Economies, Practices, Spaces (2000), London: Berg
Rival, L., Slater, D., and Miller, D. 'Sex and sociality: comparative ethnography of sexual objectification', Theory, Culture and Society special issue on Love and Eroticism (1998)
'Trading sexpics on IRC: embodiment and authenticity on the internet' Body and Society 4 (4) (December 1998)