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» And now, a turd from our sponsors
   The First Annual Counter-Clio Awards honor the worst that advertising has to offer. From Salon magazine.
   http://www.salon.com/may97/media/media970515.html

» Eradicating the Stain
   What's the difference between advertising and graffiti?
   http://eserver.org/bs/20/Luna.html

» How does wealth influence the mass media?
   "The main business of the media is to sell audiences to advertisers." Presentation of Chomsky's "Propaganda model" of mass media.
   http://flag.blackened.net/intanark/faq/secD3.html

» How powerful is advertising?
   A review of Breaking Up America, by Joseph Turow. From the Atlantic Monthly.
   http://www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jun/advert.htm

» Return of the hidden persuaders - part one
   Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
   http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/27/persuaders/

» Return of the hidden persuaders - part three
   Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
   http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/29/persuaders3/

» Return of the hidden persuaders - part two
   Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists.
   http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/28/hypnosis/

» Stay Free!
   Non-profit magazine examining commercialism and American culture.
   http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/

» Subliminal Advertising
   Numerous examples and commentary on a range of subliminal adverts. Analysis is based on the work of Wilson Key.
   http://www.poleshift.org/sublim/

» The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
   A chapter from Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment on the mass-production of culture.
   http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm

» The Hidden Persuader
   Looking back at Vance Packard's contribution in educating people about social impact of advertising. Article from Salon.
   http://www.salon.com/media/media961217.html

» The Media and Communication Studies Site
   Advertising section forms part of "the definitive site for British media studies."
   http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Sections/advert.html

» Toward a critical theory of advertising
   An analysis of advertising within a critical theory of society which combines historical, sociological, cultural, and political analysis.
   http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell6.htm

» Up in smoke
   The billboard-liberation movement gathers to celebrate 20 years of ad "improvement." From Salon.
   http://www.salon.com/media/col/poni/1999/05/03/billboards/