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020 _a9781138587137
082 _a658.802
_bHIL
100 _aHill, Tim
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245 _aThe dark side of marketing communications:
_bcritical marketing perspectives
260 _bRoutledge
_aLondon
_c2021
300 _a123 p.
365 _aGBP
_b34.99
504 _aTable of Contents 1. Introduction: Where are we now? 2. Decoding the market logic 3. Sport: Winners, logics, and the logic of competition 4. CSR: Corporate utopias, wishful thinking, and the logic of sustainability 5. Success, status and the logic of individualism 6. Social progress, economic decline, and the logic objectivity 7. Boredom: Digitised ‘24/7’ connectivity and the logic of distraction 8. Afterword: How does this end?
520 _aWhat fuels capitalism and what stops it from collapsing? Does marketing communications support and sustain the economic and political status quo? This book is not about describing the ways in which businesses can optimize the messages they put across or about adding to the marketing communicator’s toolkit. This book argues that marketing communications plays an increasingly important role in bolstering contemporary capitalism. Drawing on conceptualizations of the ‘market’ from political economy and sociology, it focusses on five logics that underpin and sustain the form of capitalism in which we live: the logic of competition, the logic of sustainability, the logic of individualism, the logic of objectivity, and the logic of distraction. It does this by exploring those arenas which are increasingly dominated by the communicative activities of business: sport, CSR, social media, statistics, and entertainment. Bringing theories from marketing and consumer research, sociology, cultural studies, technology and media studies to bear on marketing communications, this book is necessary reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students and academics who wish to understand the broader role of marketing communications in the reproduction of contemporary capitalism.
650 _aCapitalism
_92731
650 _aEconomic policy--Social aspects
_911335
700 _aMcDonagh, Pierre
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