Social Communication in Advertising: Consumption in the Mediated Marketplace

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Routledge, 2013 M05 13 - 696 pages

Now available in a significantly updated third edition to address new issues such as the Internet and globalization, Social Communication in Advertising remains the most comprehensive historical study of advertising and its function within contemporary society. It traces advertising's influence within three key social domains: the new commodities industry, popular culture, and the mass media that manages the constellation of images that unifies all three.

The third edition includes:

* discussion of new technologies and issues, from the Internet to globalization

* updated and expanded examples and illustrations

* revisions throughout to address recent developments in advertising scholarship and the latest trends in advertising practice

 

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Contents

Part II 19852000
260
Part III Policy
579
References
637

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About the author (2013)

William Leiss is Professor of Policy Studies at Queen's University.

Stephen Kline is Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University.

Sut Jhally is Professor of Communications at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and founder and executive director of The Media Education Foundation.

Jacqueline Botterill is a Lecturer at the University of East London.

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