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The Social Uses Of Advertising, Mark Ritson, Richard Elliott Nov 1999

The Social Uses Of Advertising, Mark Ritson, Richard Elliott

Mark Ritson

Advertising research has focused exclusively on the solitary subject at the expense of understanding the role that advertising plays within the social contexts of group interaction. We develop a number of explanations for this omission before describing the results of an ethnographic study of advertising's contribution to the everyday interactions of adolescent informants at a number of English high schools. The study reveals a series of new, socially related advertising-audience behaviors. Specifically, advertising meanings are shown to possess social uses relating to textual experience, interpretation, evaluation, ritual use, and metaphor. The theoretical and managerial implications of these social uses are …


The Final Countdown To Y2k: Is Your Small Business Ready?, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr Jul 1999

The Final Countdown To Y2k: Is Your Small Business Ready?, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

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Spring Mall And Home Shows: Finding Your Competitive Edge At Smaller Retailer Events, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr May 1999

Spring Mall And Home Shows: Finding Your Competitive Edge At Smaller Retailer Events, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

No abstract provided.


Journalism/ Mass Communication Program World Wide Web Sites: Content, Functionality And Promotional Value, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr Jan 1999

Journalism/ Mass Communication Program World Wide Web Sites: Content, Functionality And Promotional Value, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

Despite the popularity of promotionally-oriented Web sites within journalism/ mass communication programs in higher education, there has been little examination of sites and their contents. Almost no research has focused on visual, informational, and operational enhancements, or how Web sites of different higher education programs in the discipline differ from each other. This research addresses some of the unanswered questions about how journalism/ mass communication Web sites use enhancements to communicate with online users.