"All editions of this book have presented a single core idea, called “cultural frames for goods.” In this idea, we have sought to draw together all of the many separate strands that make up the fascinating complexity of advertising practice and its products, as they have evolved during the entir
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e period between the late nineteenth century to the present time. We argue that one unifying cultural frame is dominant during a specific historical period and then transitions into a newer one. In the first two editions of this book, we arrayed the cultural frame as a series of four discrete phases. In the third edition, a new member of our author team, Jackie Botterill, developed the idea of a fifth frame, enabling us to make sense out of what has been happening in advertising practice during the 1980s and 1990s. Professor Botterill’s imaginative and insightful construction of the fifth frame remains applicable to the latest phase of advertising practice down to the present day. The fourth edition of Social Communication in Advertising has been prepared by Kyle Asquith, who has updated the contents to consider twenty-first-century advertising and consumer society, with revisions throughout and two all-new chapters. Chapter 12 examines the institutional structure of twenty-first-century advertising, the current power struggles and strategies at play in the industry as marketing dollars shift from traditional mass media to internet, social, and mobile media promotion. Chapter 13 turns from the technological and institutional contexts of the twenty-first-century mediated marketplace to discuss the larger cultural messages of advertising, which although shifting in formats, remains a privileged social communicator." (Preface, page viii)
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"How do young audiences play with the cultural spectacle offered by reality shows like Big Brother? How does interactive media influence learning the process in educational and everyday settings? How can corporate communicators address their ethical commitment more effectively to the general public?
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And is there a link between television viewing and violent behaviour? Researching Audiences is a practical hands-on guide to the main types of empirical fieldwork that have established themselves in academic, policy and commercial research. It will help you explore what audience members do with the media, how they make sense of the media, and how the media may influence social affairs from the micro to the macro level. The book introduces and discusses four complementary key approaches to empirical research: Media ethnography, reception research, survey research, and experimental research." (Publisher description)
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"The 2000 Yearbook treats two themes, both of which relate to newer features of the media landscape: violence in video and computer games, and pornography on television and on Internet. Some articles in the Yearbook also discuss findings on audience perceptions of violence and sex in the media. The
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choice of these themes has to do with the marked increase in the availability of such content to children and youth via new media technologies. The Yearbook comes with two bibliographies: Research on Pornography and Sex in the Media and Research on Video and Computer Games." (Publisher description)
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