Introductory Note: Polaroid Advertising

We propose to consider advertising as a discourse that derives its power from its capacity to produce and reproduce the meaning of a culture and a society. With remarkable speed and clarity, it generates instant portraits, akin to polaroids, where everyone either recognises themselves or prefers no...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Balonas, Sara, Silva, Sónia, Ruiz-Mora, Isabel
Materialtyp: Article ou chapitre numérique
Språk:Anglais
Publicerad: Comunicação e sociedade 2024
Länkar:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sammanfattning:We propose to consider advertising as a discourse that derives its power from its capacity to produce and reproduce the meaning of a culture and a society. With remarkable speed and clarity, it generates instant portraits, akin to polaroids, where everyone either recognises themselves or prefers not to.What does advertising show us? For many, advertising is still primarily associated with consumption, representing everything that drags us towards the apocalypse as the effects of climate chan...