MEST 4 Xmas Task #4

ADDITIONAL WEB RESEARCH

Media Magazine

http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/subscribers/downloads/archive_mm/_mmagpast/4sets.html
“The technological forces are then harnessed, or exploited, by economic forces, the companies in the business of making profits”

“technologies that make it possible to manufacture a certain media product at a certain time. For example, highly miniaturised digital circuitry and broadband telecommunications for the so-called 3G (third generation) mobile phones, which are starting to hit markets this year”

http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/subscribers/downloads/archive_mm/_mmagpast/mm22_what_is_news.html
"Elite nations are often focused upon, reinforcing their perceived importance, whilst many smaller and poorer countries and communities are ignored altogether. News is inherently ideological."

Google Scholar

http://www.jstor.org/pss/2118455
Simple theory of advertising as good or bad
“most economists and or intellectuals have not liked advertisements that provide little information”

“we agree that many ads create wants without producing information, we do not agree that they change our tastes”

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=162717
Repetitive Advertising and the Consumer
“Advertising is in an odd position. Its extreme protagonists claim it has extraordinary powers and its severest critics believe them. Advertising is often effective. But it is not as powerful as is sometimes thought, nor is there any evidence that it actually works by any strong form of persuasion or manipulation.”

http://abs.sagepub.com/content/38/4/593.short
Social Comparison, Advertising, and Consumer Discontent
“Consumers encounter countless advertising images during the course of everyday life. Many of these images are idealized, representing life more as it is imagined than as it actually exists.”

http://www.jstor.org/pss/2352485
economics consequences of advertising
“advertising operates predominantly by changing consumer tastes”

Article Links

http://www.jstor.org/pss/2352485
economics consequences of advertising
“advertising operates predominantly by changing consumer tastes”

http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Jpm4x1bNw7kC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=how+advertising+influences+male+tastes&ots=J4iQbn0CPo&sig=pKPrcxyVguWuSLsmMymylPK8aUw#v=onepage&q&f=false
“media images of celebrities teach kids to hate their bodies”

“entertainment specials focus on eating disorders, and celebrity plastic surgery... pressures mates to look like models”

http://www.jstor.org/pss/4189010
“reason is that consumers grow up in particular cultures and become accustomed to that cultures values, belief in their advertising”