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And now, a turd from our sponsors - http://www.salon.com/may97/media/media970515.html
The First Annual Counter-Clio Awards honor the worst that advertising has to offer. From Salon magazine.

Eradicating the Stain - http://eserver.org/bs/20/Luna.html
What's the difference between advertising and graffiti?

How does wealth influence the mass media? - http://flag.blackened.net/intanark/faq/secD3.html
"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? - http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jun/advert.htm
A review of Breaking Up America, by Joseph Turow. From the Atlantic Monthly.

Return of the hidden persuaders - part one - http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/27/persuaders/
Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.

Return of the hidden persuaders - part three - http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/29/persuaders3/
Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.

Return of the hidden persuaders - part two - http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/28/hypnosis/
Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.

Stay Free! - http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/
Non-profit magazine examining commercialism and American culture.

Subliminal Advertising - http://www.poleshift.org/sublim/
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 - http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
A chapter from Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment on the mass-production of culture.

The Hidden Persuader - http://www.salon.com/media/media961217.html
Looking back at Vance Packard's contribution in educating people about social impact of advertising. Article from Salon.

The Media and Communication Studies Site - http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Sections/advert.html
Advertising section forms part of "the definitive site for British media studies."

Toward a critical theory of advertising - http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell6.htm
An analysis of advertising within a critical theory of society which combines historical, sociological, cultural, and political analysis.

Up in smoke - http://www.salon.com/media/col/poni/1999/05/03/billboards/
The billboard-liberation movement gathers to celebrate 20 years of ad "improvement." From Salon.

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