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Return of the hidden persuaders - part three
Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/29/persuaders3/
PopCultures on advertising
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 .
http://www.popcultures.com/articles/advertising.htm
Toward a critical theory of advertising
An analysis of advertising within a critical theory of society which combines historical, sociological, cultural, and political analysis.
http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell6.htm
Return of the hidden persuaders - part one
Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/27/persuaders/
Return of the hidden persuaders - part two
Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/28/hypnosis/
Stay Free!
Non-profit magazine examining commercialism and American culture.
http://metalab.unc.edu/stayfree/
The Hidden Persuader
Looking back at Vance Packard's contribution in educating people about social impact of advertising. Article from Salon.
http://www.salon.com/media/media961217.html
And now, a turd from our sponsors
The First Annual Counter-Clio Awards honor the worst that advertising has to offer. From Salon magazine.
http://www.salon.com/may97/media/media970515.html
How powerful is advertising?
A review of Breaking Up America, by Joseph Turow. From the Atlantic Monthly.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jun/advert.htm
How does wealth influence the mass media?
"The main business of the media is to sell audiences to advertisers." Presentation of Chomsky's "Propaganda model" of mass media.
http://flag.blackened.net/intanark/faq/secD3.html
Up in smoke
The billboard-liberation movement gathers to celebrate 20 years of ad "improvement." From Salon.
http://www.salon.com/media/col/poni/1999/05/03/billboards/
Eradicating the Stain
What's the difference between advertising and graffitti?
http://eserver.org/bs/20/Luna.html
The Media and Communication Studies Site
Advertising section forms part of "the definitive site for British media studies."
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Sections/advert.html
Subliminal Advertising
Numerous examples and commentary on a range of subliminal adverts. Analysis is based on the work of Wilson Key.
http://www.poleshift.org/sublim/
The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
A chapter from Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment on the mass-production of culture.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/adorno.htm
Salon.com: The Name Game
Columnist Ruth Shalit questions the brand name creation industry and whether the perfect name is the key to corporate success.
http://dir.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/11/30/naming/index.html?sid=474305
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