This is a Generic Brand Video (Dissolve, March 21, 2014, 2:49 mins)
Institutes, Museums, Research Groups and More!
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Check My Ads (An independent watchdog covering the digital adtech industry, holding the surveillance adtech industry accountable for abuses).
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Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, CCFC. Leading nonprofit committed to helping children thrive in an increasingly commercialized, screen-obsessed culture. The only group dedicated to ending marketing to children, CCFC believes that child-targeted marketing and excessive screen time undermine kids’ healthy development.
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The Makley Image Archive: Resources for a Visual Anthropology. Digital media archive of images, videos, and sound clips collected by Charlene Makley, Reed College, Portland, OR.
eBooks
Exploiting Fandom: How the Media Industry Seeks to Manipulate Fans, by ISBN: 9781609386238Date: 2019Online book, from JSTOR.
As fans rush online to share thoughts on favorite shows or video games, they may feel like the process of providing feedback is empowering. Yet, as fan studies scholar Mel Stanfill argues, industry invitations for fan participation indicate not greater fan power but rather greater fan usefulness. The author compares the "domestication of fandom" to the domestication of livestock, contending that the entertainment industry seeks to cultivate a fan base that is both more useful and more controllable. Stanfill brings industry studies and fan studies into the conversation, looking closely at who the industry considers "proper fans" in terms of race, gender, age, and sexuality, and interrogates how digital media have influenced consumption, ultimately finding that the invitation to participate is really an incitement to consume in circumscribed, industry-useful ways.
Advertising and Consumerism
LEGO Friends & Gender Part 1 (Feminist Frequency)
LEGO Friends & Gender Part 2 (Feminist Frequency)
Publications of All Kinds
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Guide to native advertising (Ava Sirrah, Columbia Journalism Review, Sept 6, 2019)
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How Target figured out a teen girl was pregnant before her father did (Kashmir Hill, Forbes)
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Junk food companies use Facebook to get around children’s television advertising restrictions (Sue Dunlevy, News.com.au, Oct 17, 2014)
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Making ads that whisper to the brain (Natasha Singer, New York Times, Nov 13, 2010)
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Megan Fox enrols a 'hand double' as she peels off for sexy Super Bowl advert (Daily Mail, Feb 8, 2010)
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“Papa says it’s safe”: 20 astounding gun ads (Mark Murrmann, Mother Jones, Dec 15, 2012)
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The science behind how companies get you hooked on their products (Farnam Street, Business Insider, March 14, 2014)
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Shocking truth about digital marketing (Charles Mazzini, Forbes, Feb 11, 2020)
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Unraveling of America (Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, Aug 6, 2020)
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What it costs to advertise in TV's biggest shows in 2020-2021 season (Jeanine Poggi, Ad Age, Oct 30, 2020)
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Who, What, Why, & How of Digital Marketing (Lucy Alexander, HubSpot, Nov 2, 2020)
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Why did it take so long to set Aunt Jemima free? (Michele L. Norris, The Washington Post, June 17, 2020)
Reverse Advertising: Graphic Warning Labels Show the Sinister Side of Products (Maya Silver, Truthout, March 5, 2017)
Blind Spot: The Attention Economy and the Law (Tim Wu, 2019, Columbia Law School)
The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
Collections: Podcasts & Videos
- A History of Persuasion (WNYC: On the Media, Aug 28, 2019, 31:10 mins)
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Amazon Key: Commercial (Amazon, Oct 25, 2017, 1:37 mins)
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Bottled Water Episode (Penn & Teller, Jan. 3, 2017, 4:03 mins.)
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Buy Me That: Helping Kids Understand Toy Ads (Feb 2, 2008, 3:01 mins)
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The Century of the Self: British TV Docu-Series (Adam Curtis, 2002, 4 pts, 3:54:43 hrs)
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The Late Capitalism of Fast Food Twitter (Sarah Z, Oct 1, 2018, 19:33 mins)
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Merchants of Cool (Frontline, PBS). Videos, documentaries & reports on how pop culture creators and marketers target teen audiences.
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Ridding the World of Ads (South Park, Comedy Central, Dec 12, 2015, 1:18 mins)
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This Is a Generic Brand Video (Dissolve, March 21, 2014, 2:49 mins)
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This Is a Generic Presidential Campaign Ad (Dissolve, March 31, 2016, 3:32 mins)
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What Martin Luther King Actually Thought About Car Commercials (Nathan Robinson, Feb 4, 2018, 1:01 mins)
- Ford Explorer Men's Only Edition (car commercial highlights parts of the car invented by women)