Promotional Cultures

The Rise and Spread of Advertising, Public Relations, Marketing and Branding
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-3983-3
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

In the twenty-first century, promotion is everywhere and everything has become promotable: everyday goods and organizations, people and ideas, cultures and futures. This engaging book looks at the rise of advertising, public relations, branding, marketing and lobbying, and explores where our promotional times have taken us.

Promotional Cultures documents how the professions and practices of promotion have interacted with and reshaped so much in our world, from commodities, celebrities and popular culture to politics, markets and civil society. It offers a mix of historical accounts, social theory and documented case studies, including haute couture fashion, Apple Inc., Hollywood film, Jennifer Lopez, the Occupy movement, Barack Obama’s election campaigns, news production and the 2008 financial crisis. Together, these show how promotional culture may be recorded, understood and interpreted.

Promotional Cultures will appeal to students and scholars of media and culture, sociology, politics, anthropology, social and industrial history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Aeron

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationsmanagement, Public Relations
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Public Relations
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Detailed Contents vi

Preface and Acknowledgements x


1 Introduction 1

Part I: Producers, Consumers and Texts

2 Production: Industry and it's Critics 15

3 Audiences and Consumers 34

4 Texts: Situating the Text in Promotional Culture 51

Part II: Commodities, Media and Celebrity

5 Commodities: Promotional Influences on the Creation of Stuff 73

6 News Media and Popular Culture: Promotion and Creative Autonomy 92

7 Celebrity Culture and Symbolic Power 112

Part III: Politics, Markets and Society

8 Politics and Political Representation 135

9 Conflict and Pluralism in Civil Society 154

10 Economies, Speculative Markets and Value 173

11 Conclusions 191

References 203

Index 237

Über Autor(innen)

Aeron Davis is professor of political communication at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has investigated communication at Westminster, the London Stock Exchange, amongst the major political parties and across the trade union movement. Along the way he has interviewed close to 300 high-profile individuals employed in journalism, public relations, politics, business, finance, NGOs and the civil service. He has published on each of these topics in journals and edited collections and is the author of Public Relations Democracy (MUP, 2002), The Mediation of Politics (Routledge, 2007), and Political Communication and Social Theory (Routledge, 2010).