Web Resources: Advertising
This on-line home to Adweek magazine offers a peek into what marketers are learning about contemporary culture, trends, and methodologies for marketing to different market segments.
Adbusters
http://www.adbusters.org
The on-line home of Adbusters magazine, this organization creatively and aggressively critiques the manipulative world of marketing and advertising. Often times crass and crude, this is a site that will lead you into taking a new and necessary look at the world of advertising.
Jean Kilbourne
http://www.jeankilbourne.com
A website covering the work of internationally recognized media critic and author of Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight The Addictive Power of Advertising, Dr. Jean Kilbourne (paperback version titled Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel). This site is loaded with lots of information and resources to help sift through the negative images of today's ads - especially as they relate to the problem of female body-image.
Last updated: 08-Aug-2007