The Ideology of Advertising: The United States and Sweden

This study examined the similarities and differences between the values portrayed in magazine advertising in the United States and Sweden.

The Ideology of Advertising: the United States and Sweden

Charles R Wiles, Judith A Wiles and Anders Tjernlund

Advertising may have many effects, such as the modeling of sex roles, but the issue of values transcends all such specific concerns. Of all the aspects of advertising that might be studied, values have the most profound implications ...

Pollay, 1987

The impact of advertising is not limited to the message content about its products or services; it also communicates, directly...

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