Providing a detailed account of contemporary outdoor advertising and its relationship with urban space, this book examines what the outdoor advertising industry tells us about the commercial productio
This book argues that we are witnessing the emergence of ‘commercial democracy’ in which public relations, promotional culture and the media play a new, central role. As the conventional democratic pr
The study asks where and how gender emerges as a significant organizing principle in contemporary advertising. Cronin (sociology, Lancaster U., UK) analyzes print ads to highlight gender function and
Advertising is often portrayed negatively, as corrupting a mythically pure relationship between people and things. In Advertising Myths Anne Cronin argues that it is better understood as a 'matrix of
Cronin (Lancaster U., UK) and Hetherington (Open U., UK) have edited this collection of essays that address how consumer cultures can shape the character of cities all over the world, especially in te
This collection offers a global perspective on the changing character of cities and the increasing importance that consumer culture plays in defining their symbolic economies. Increasingly, forms of s
