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- Adorno's Culture Industry - Excerpts from 'The Dialectic of Enlightenment' and other essays by Theodor Adorno. "The customer is not king, as the culture industry would have us believe, not its subject but its object."
www.ddc.net/ygg/etext/adorno.htm
- And now, a turd from our sponsors - The First Annual Counter-Clio Awards honor the worst that advertising has to offer. From Salon magazine.
www.salon.com/may97/media/media970515.html
- Eradicating the Stain - What's the difference between advertising and graffitti?
eserver.org/bs/20/Luna.html
- 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.
flag.blackened.net/intanark/faq/secD3.html
- How powerful is advertising? - A review of Breaking Up America, by Joseph Turow. From the Atlantic Monthly.
www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jun/advert.htm
- Jim Hagart's Subliminal World - Extensive analysis and commentary on subliminal and manipulative advertising. Offers numerous examples of classical and contemporary ads.
www.subliminalworld.com
- 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 .
www.popcultures.com/articles/advertising.htm
- Return of the hidden persuaders - part one - Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/27/persuaders
- Return of the hidden persuaders - part three - Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/29/persuaders3
- Return of the hidden persuaders - part two - Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/28/hypnosis
- Stay Free! - Non-profit magazine examining commercialism and American culture.
metalab.unc.edu/stayfree
- Subliminal Advertising - Numerous examples and commentary on a range of subliminal adverts. Analysis is based on the work of Wilson Key.
www.poleshift.org/sublim
- Subliminal Perception Web - University of Minnesota pages on psychological processes relevant to various types of visual and auditory subliminal presentations. Numerous examples.
sbe.d.umn.edu/subliminal
- The Hidden Persuader - Looking back at Vance Packard's contribution in educating people about social impact of advertising. Article from Salon.
www.salon.com/media/media961217.html
- The Media and Communication Studies Site - Advertising section forms part of "the definitive site for British media studies."
www.aber.ac.uk/media/Sections/advert.html
- The name game - Salon columnist, Ruth Shalit, asks how much a name is worth. Is the perfect name the key to corporate success?
www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/11/30/naming
- Toward a critical theory of advertising - An analysis of advertising within a critical theory of society which combines historical, sociological, cultural, and political analysis.
www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell6.htm
- Up in smoke - The billboard-liberation movement gathers to celebrate 20 years of ad "improvement." From Salon.
www.salon.com/media/col/poni/1999/05/03/billboards
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