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[Poll] How does advertising affect YOU????
October 16, 2003 - 06:51 AM
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Hey! I want to know how advertising affects YOU and YOUR views on advertising!
What do think about the advertising?
It is good.
(4 votes for 26.67%)
It is EVILLL (or bad)!!!!!
(2 votes for 13.33%)
No Clue.
(0 votes for 0%)
A bit of both (cross 1&2).
(9 votes for 60%)
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Hi
October 16, 2003 - 07:05 AM
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Sorry, but the poll had a problem with the options. It skipped out the option: "No clue..." It also doubled the option of: "It is good." I don't know why. (I accidentally misspelled 'or'.)
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Re: How does advertising affect YOU????
October 20, 2003 - 03:58 AM
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I don't think advertising by itself is good or bad - depends on its uses, right?
I do think, however, that in North America, our culture is over-saturated with advertising. There is very little public space left that isn't filled with ads, imploring you to buy this or that. Also, the advertisements perpetuate myths of consumerism fulfillment, or, buying things will make you happy/beautiful/smart/cool/etc.
An interesting sidenote is Adbuster magazine's "Black Spot Sneaker". Adbuster's has long been a vehicle of dissent against consumer culture & the all-pervasive advertisments... now they're making, marketing, and selling an "anti-brand" shoe - a sneaker with a black spot designed to be the nemesis of Nike (and the now Nike-owned Converse). But what is an "anti-brand," but a brand? Being a "culture-jammer," etc. is the new cool... Another form of dissent that has been absorbed into the capitalist machine?
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Right!!!
October 22, 2003 - 07:49 AM
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I agree with the first 2 parts of the post. I was trying to say that on my other thread. But I didn't have any idea what the last paragraph meant. Can you clear things up a bit? Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Re: How does advertising affect YOU????
October 23, 2003 - 12:08 PM
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I fixed the poll so that it looks normal again 
I think what Plush was pointing out was that Ad Busters which is an international magazine which promotes no advertising is selling an "anti-ad" shoe. But this seems only somewhat ironic since in order to sell them, they need to advertise, but their entire philosophy is built on no ads.
Sorta funny.
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Yeah.
October 29, 2003 - 07:52 AM
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Thanks for fixing the poll, Hugh.
Other readers/viewers, reply to my poll. REPLY!!!!!!!!
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Heh, heh...
October 29, 2003 - 07:54 AM
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I agree. The anti-ad shoe is dangdiddlyodely weird!!!!
DIDDLY!
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Advertising culture - pros and cons
October 30, 2003 - 07:33 AM
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I liked your poll on advertising. It's interesting that advertising is made to be noticed, so noone can really ignore it, no matter what. What is important to know is that advertising has elements that engage the most of tallented people's creativity, expression and technical skills (besides verbo-voco-visual) to materialize it. The other thing is that there is not enough consumer culture to ban the ads which are under certain level of intelligence and good taste. But I think that one day the time will come for that too. Like you can not watch, eat, drink and breathe "trash" any more because some things are banned, some day the criteria for commercial ads in media will be so high that we'd like to watch them as much as we like to chat with our friends, hear weather forcast or hear a new (good) joke. Well, maybe this post was another (not so good) joke about advertising, thinking that advertising is also based on perception from psychology we know that a person is more likely to memorize things that are shocking and annoying (irritating by its repetitiveness) for her/him than some pleasant things... maybe the future of advertising is going to be quite the opposite of my 'vision' above. In meantime, let's enjoy possibility that we can also CREATE ads not only perceive them
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Adbusters, etc.
November 1, 2003 - 01:22 AM
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I read Adbusters and consider 'Culture Jamming' - as its often put - to be necessary activism in today's culture. We, especially in North America, are oblivious to the way how much of our space and time are consumed by advertisements.
In reply to the comment that culture jamming was "The New Cool" I wish that comment were true. In North America I feel we as a people have become far too consumed with the things we buy. Material things have become the focus of our lives - as opposed to the things that are really important in life. How many people do you know whose favourite activity is shopping? We buy so many things we do not need. To quote from the Adbusters Buy Nothing Day campaign -
"The average North American consumes five times more than a Mexican, ten times more than a Chinese person, and thirty times more than a person from India. We are the most voracious consumers in the world... a world that could die because of the way we North Americans live. Give it a rest."
As far as the black spot sneaker goes, its function is not to be a brand, but an anti-brand. It is not a brand with the name 'anti-brand'. It is trying to offer an alternative to the shoes made in sweat shops by companies such as Nike. Adbusters and other such magazines are criticized for having only comments and no action. Yet when they do take action - for example, make an alternative sneaker - they are criticized for becoming a brand. However I do agree, in the matter of culture jamming it is difficult not to be a hypocrite.
I feel very passionate about this subject. I feel that people overlook the importance of ads and free speech in our lives today. I certainly overlooked it until about a year or two ago.
I am glad to hear that so many people know about Adbusters now, it used to be quite obscure - at least where I live - people are uninformed about the way corporations control the way society works.
If you don't think so look around you. What clothes you wear, what TV shows you watch, what books you read and which things are the most important to you in life. A small number of corporations own nearly everything we see, hear and read. The media is not diverse and in North America our news, in reality, comes from few sources. Independent magazines and newspapers are few and far between. Is this wrong? I say yes. It limits our knowledge about the world around us as we slide further down the slippery slope of extreme capitalism and mindless comsuming...
Elizabeth Klein.
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I, king of this thread, am back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 8, 2003 - 07:37 AM
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You used my poll!
(Imagine tears of joy)
What IS Adbusters?(it sounds rather interesting)
Media can be col, but only if used well.
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media good vs bad
January 6, 2004 - 10:06 AM
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I believe the media has a stonghold in our society. think about it. without media we as a generation wouldn't know what the heck is going on. 75% of what we know comes from the media. Kinda sad isn't it.
Advertising just helps to influence you on your decisions. Wether you think it affects you or not, does not matter because it does affect you. Very much. YOU my friend are a product of the globalization of the corporate structure. You have been raised not by mom & pop, but by the media industry.
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Re: How does advertising affect YOU????
January 27, 2004 - 08:38 AM
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Hello,
I think advertising is very very good because it gives you deep knowledge and idea about the product or something and it makes you to be sensitive to what is new...
Oke Rotimi
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(>_o)
May 4, 2004 - 06:15 AM
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HUH??? If the media never intervened with anything, then how come all sorts of people have died because others were pretending to be action characters like wrestlers or "Power Rangers"
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Re: How does advertising affect YOU????
May 4, 2004 - 06:25 AM
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It also is a bad influence on children because they have never been told the complete difference between good and bad. also, if this has never been established, then kids think thats its okey to pretend that they are wrestlers and viciously attack others because they think that the moves that the wrestlers perform are real and seeing as they don't get hurt, hey why not do it on my best friend because he isn't going to get hurt? but then he/she is seriously injured and everybody is sad. THINK ABOUT IT!!!
(By the way... TigerLily, STOP WRITING SO MUCH!!! NOBODY WANTS TO READ THAT MUCH!!!)
-Tyler
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Ty, i beleive ur wrong,
July 4, 2004 - 06:15 AM
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Elizabeth u right and il read, deal?? me
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