POPULAR CULTURE AND PRINT MEDIA

Popular Culture And Print Media

Popular Culture And Print Media

Impact Of Print Media Advertising

In society at large, advertising has traditionally been seen as having little intrinsic merit, being ephemeral, trashy and inconsequential (both as 'art' and as the mercenary ally of grubby-fingered commerce), not to mention disingenuous and pretentious - a view compounded by the way it is has been used to sell 'transient' products in terms of intangible 'durables' such as 'security', 'natural' and 'self-esteem'. (Steinberg 2006)

Print Media Roles In Development Of American Popular Culture

What people read and see in the newspapers and magazines have a big influence on what they say, how they say it, and their actions. Twenty years ago, people did a lot of book reading and newspaper reading. Books fulfilled the mind with education and readings of pleasure just on someone's leisure time. In the movie Finding Forrester, a young man from the inner city was a genius at writing. Although he was an excellent basketball player, reading books after books help this young man gain his knowledge. (Nesbitt 2007)

Trends Spread Or Caused By The Print Media

Advertising represents a highly suspect epistemology: knowledge through image and emotion, rather than words and reason, infantilizing the consumer and further limiting the scope for negotiating with the real world through rationality, and its mirror, plain language, say critics such as Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death). But the idea that image-based communication strategies are somehow aberrations from a plainer, essentialist language use has been one that philosophers have found increasingly difficult to justify, and does more to suggest that what the applier of such an argument is really pissed off about is the decline of the 19th century print-based culture that advertising - for better or worse - has done much to dismantle. (Nesbitt 2007)

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