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And now, a turd from our sponsors - The First Annual Counter-Clio Awards honor the worst that advertising has to offer. From Salon magazine.
Eradicating the Stain - What's the difference between advertising and graffitti?
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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.
How powerful is advertising? - A review of Breaking Up America, by Joseph Turow. From the Atlantic Monthly.
Return of the hidden persuaders - part one - Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
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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.
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Return of the hidden persuaders - part two - Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
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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.
Stay Free! - Non-profit magazine examining commercialism and American culture.
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Subliminal Advertising - Numerous examples and commentary on a range of subliminal adverts. Analysis is based on the work of Wilson Key.
The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception - A chapter from Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment on the mass-production of culture.
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The Hidden Persuader - Looking back at Vance Packard's contribution in educating people about social impact of advertising. Article from Salon.
The Media and Communication Studies Site - Advertising section forms part of the definitive site for British media studies.
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Toward a critical theory of advertising - An analysis of advertising within a critical theory of society which combines historical, sociological, cultural, and political analysis.
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Up in smoke - The billboard-liberation movement gathers to celebrate 20 years of ad improvement. From Salon.
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