1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910449671803321

Autore

Cronin Anne M. <1967, >

Titolo

Advertising and consumer citizenship : gender, images, and rights / / Anne M. Cronin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-59518-2

0-203-99189-3

1-280-10816-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Transformations

Disciplina

306.3

659.1/042

Soggetti

Advertising

Advertising-- Psychological aspects

Consumer behavior

Psychological aspects

Sex role in advertising

Commerce

Business & Economics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-174) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Plates; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The individual, the citizen and the consumer; 2 Advertising knowledges; 3 Advertising, texts and textual strategies; 4 Branding vision; 5 Female visions; 6 Visual epistemologies and new consumer rights; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Using a variety of print advertisements, this exciting and provocative study explores how the consumer is created by advertisements in terms of:* Sex* Class* Race.It also explores the figure of the citizen and how this identity is produced by contemporary political discourses. Advertising and Consumer Citizenship will be essential reading for all those interested in the study of consumption, citizenship and gender.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461905503321

Titolo

Folk culture in the digital age [[electronic resource] ] : the emergent dynamics of human interaction / / edited by Trevor J. Blank

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, : Utah State University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4571-8465-6

1-283-74252-7

0-87421-890-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlankTrevor J

Disciplina

398.20285

Soggetti

Folklore and the Internet

Folklore - Computer network resources

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Brief Word on QR Codes; Introduction: Pattern in the Virtual Folk Culture of Computer-Mediated Communication - Trevor J. Blank; 1. How Counterculture Helped Put the "Vernacular" in Vernacular Webs - Robert Glenn Howard; 2. Netizens, Revolutionaries, and the Inalienable Right to the Internet - Tok Thompson; 3. Performance 2.0: Observations toward a Theory of the Digital Performance of Folklore - Anthony Bak Buccitelli; 4. Real Virtuality: Enhancing Locality by Enacting the Small World Theory - Lynne S. McNeill

5. Jokes on the Internet: Listing toward Lists - Elliott Oring6. The Jewish Joke Online: Framing and Symbolizing Humor in Analog and Digital Culture - Simon J. Bronner; 7. From Oral Tradition to Cyberspace: Tapeworm Diet Rumors and Legends - Elizabeth Tucker; 8. Love and War and Anime Art: An Ethnographic Look at a Virtual Community of Collectors - Bill Ellis; 9. Face-to-Face with the Digital Folk: The Ethics of Fieldwork on Facebook - Montana Miller; References; About the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Smart phones, tablets, Facebook, Twitter, and wireless Internet connections are the latest technologies to have become entrenched in



our culture.  Although traditionalists have argued that computer-mediated communication and cyberspace are incongruent with the study of folklore, Trevor J. Blank sees the digital world as fully capable of generating, transmitting, performing, and archiving vernacular culture. Folklore in the Digital Age documents the emergent cultural scenes and expressive folkloric communications made possible by digital "new media" technologies.New media is cha