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Advertising / Consumerism
Advertising is more than just the ad itself. There are deeper issues to explore: product placement, branding, public relations, strategic marketing and, fundamentally, how we each participate in our own seduction."The basis of advertising is not what products are being sold, but what dreams are being sold."
— Sut Jhally

Recommended Educational Resources
CML MediaLit Kit™ / A Framework for Learning and Teaching in a Media Age
Now all together in one place, the components of inquiry-based media literacy using the Five Core Concepts and CML’s Five Key Questions of Media Literacy. Covers media literacy:
     · Theory
     · Practice
     · Implementation

Curriculum resources and lesson plans

Media Literacy Works: Case Studies and Success Stories in Media Literacy Education

 
Articles and Reports
From our online Reading Room and Media&Values Archive we've selected pertinent studies, reflective articles, research reports and news items to help you explore this topic thoroughly.
      • 'America's Wish Book' Sells Dreams
     • Ads Pose Dilemma for Black Women
     • Advertising: Hit or Myth?
     • Attacking Ageism in Advertising
     • Beauty...and the Beast of Advertising
     • Bill Moyers on Political Ads
     • Brands R Us: How Advertising Works
     • Cancer is an Equal Opportunity Disease
     • Cloning the Consumer Culture
     • Deadly Persuasion: 7 Myths Alcohol Advertisers Want You to Believe
     • Getting a Handle on Military Advertising
     • How to Analyze an Advertisement
     • How TV Works
     • Idols of the Marketplace
     • Images of Men in Advertising
     • Imitations of Immortality: How Children Learn a Culture of Consumerism
     • Marketing the Military: Should Soldiering Be Sold Like Soap?
     • Media Images Pitch War for Profit
     • MINORITIES: Ads Still Portray All-White Society
     • Our Culture of Addiction
     • Pictures in the Parlor
     • Rise of the Image Culture
     • Selling Addiction to Women
     • Sexist Advertisements: How to see through the soft sell
     • Starting Point: My Father was a Salesman
     • Television and Consumption
     • TELEVISION: The Search for Meaning
     • The Bribed Soul: Ads, TV and American Culture
     • Three Stages of Political Advertising
     • Tony Schwartz: The Man Who Invented Political Spots
     • TV Food Messages and Children's Diets
     • What are You Worth? Audience for Sale
     • When Creativity Isn't Enough: What Makes Ads go Bad?
     • Where Does it Come From? Where Does it Go?
     • Women's Magazines Won't Bite the Hands That Feed Them


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