Utilizes the resonance principle to explain the ways in which the electronic media is reviving nonlinear communication in modern society

Now in its third edition, the popular Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture is an engaging cultural studies critique of contemporary advertising and its impacts on American society. Arthur Asa Berger looks at marketing strategies, sex and advertising, consumer culture, political advertising, and communication theory and process to give an accessible overview of advertising in America. The new edition features up-to-date examples and new theoretical material, including expanded discussions on critical analysis methods, sexuality in advertising, global advertising, and neuromarketing and comes complete with updated ads and Berger's signature drawings. Whether new to Berger's lively style of teaching and writing or loyal adopters, advertising and media professors will want to check out the latest edition of this text.

Examines the media's increasing influence in medicine, education, business, politics, and daily life

A brief, inexpensive, informal introductory text for the basic course in communication, Messages features lively writing, a focus on theorists of communication, and inclusion of contemporary topics of identity, social media, and visual communication.

""ADVERTISING should be judged only by the goods it is conclusively known to sell, at a given cost. Mere opinions on Advertising Copy should be excluded from consideration, because opinions on Advertising are conflicting as opinions on Religion. ""But, it is different with Advertising, as it is with Mechanics or with Medicine, all three of which can be conclusively tested. ""Many Advertisers, however, seem satisfied to spend their money on mere Opinions about Advertising when they might have invested it on Evidence about Advertising. ""When it is anything less than Salesmanship it is not real Advertising, but only 'General Publicity.' And, 'General Publicity' admittedly claims only to 'Keep the Name before the People, ' - to produce a 'General impression on the Trade, ' and to 'Influence Sales' for the salesmen. ""The only way to judge Advertising is to judge it by the amount of goods It is conclusively known to Sell, at a given cost."" Get Your Copy Today.

As Dan Nimmo notes in his introduction, Inside Political Campaigns endeavors to trace the sources of professional campaign wizardry by encapsulating the theories and concepts that practitioners and scholars alike claim to guide and rationalize consultants' magical weaving of strategies, tactics, and techniques into a 'winning tapestry of political communication.' This study presents the theoretical areas political communication consultants draw upon in making strategic and tactical decisions in political campaigns. And it provides an understanding of what motivates political consultants to choose a particular campaign strategy by explaining how various strategies work with the voting public. While the book is research-driven, its academic findings are tempered and expanded by the authors' personal political consulting experiences. The text will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners alike in political communication, advertising, public opinion, political science, political rhetoric, and campaigns and elections.