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Everyday Advertising Context: An Ethnography Of Advertising Response In The Family Living Room, Laknath Jayasinghe, Mark Ritson
Everyday Advertising Context: An Ethnography Of Advertising Response In The Family Living Room, Laknath Jayasinghe, Mark Ritson
Mark Ritson
Consumer research largely examines television advertising effects using conventional psychological accounts of message processing. Consequently, there is an emphasis on the influence of textual content at the expense of the everyday interpersonal viewing contexts surrounding advertising audiences. To help restore this theoretical imbalance an ethnographic study was conducted in eight Australian homes to explore the influence of everyday viewing contexts on advertising audiences. This article examines how the everyday advertising contexts of social interaction, viewing space, media technology use, and time impact consumer responses to television advertising texts. Advertising viewing behavior in the family living room is framed within broader …