Critical Commentary
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The First Annual Counter-Clio Awards honor the worst that advertising has to offer. From Salon magazine.
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.
Return of the hidden persuaders - part three
Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
Return of the hidden persuaders - part two
Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
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.
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.
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."
Toward a critical theory of advertising
An analysis of advertising within a critical theory of society which combines historical, sociological, cultural, and political analysis.
Up in smoke
The billboard-liberation movement gathers to celebrate 20 years of ad "improvement." From Salon.
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