Society, Issues, Business, Advertising, Critical Commentary
- Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
- Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
- Archive of mostly academic articles on advertising - many dealing with gender issues. Part of the PopCultures site - a.k.a. Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center .
- The First Annual Counter-Clio Awards honor the worst that advertising has to offer. From Salon magazine.
- A chapter from Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment on the mass-production of culture.
- The billboard-liberation movement gathers to celebrate 20 years of ad "improvement." From Salon.
- An analysis of advertising within a critical theory of society which combines historical, sociological, cultural, and political analysis.
- Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
- Advertising section forms part of "the definitive site for British media studies."
- Non-profit magazine examining commercialism and American culture.
- Numerous examples and commentary on a range of subliminal adverts. Analysis is based on the work of Wilson Key.
- What's the difference between advertising and graffitti?
- "The main business of the media is to sell audiences to advertisers." Presentation of Chomsky's "Propaganda model" of mass media.
- Looking back at Vance Packard's contribution in educating people about social impact of advertising. Article from Salon.
- A review of Breaking Up America, by Joseph Turow. From the Atlantic Monthly.
- Columnist Ruth Shalit questions the brand name creation industry and whether the perfect name is the key to corporate success.
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