adbusters and contextual factors

Facts:
adbusters are published 6 times a year

the adbusters we're looking at is the 2016 edition 

commodity fetishism- obsession with a brand

symbolic annihilation- disregarding a race

subvert to go against the expectation

adbusters media foundation was established in 1989

How do contextual factors shape their production, distribution, circulation and consumption of magazines? 


1 - What is the dominant ideological perspective of Adbusters?

• What is the ideology/ethos of Adbusters?
• How does Adbusters subvert traditional magazine conventions, especially in relation to
advertising?
• How does the magazine interact with its audience?
  •  to challenge advertising for twenty-odd years now
  •  new magazine aesthetic that can somehow come to grips with the internet crisis that all print magazines are in. […] We’re totally dedicated to staying hard copy and pioneering this new aesthetic
  • We have this culture jammers network, and almost 100,000 people have signed up. We’re in constant communication with those people – we send them stuff and they send us stuff. 

2 - Constructing audiences and constructing brand identity using digitally convergent media 

  • Adbusters constructs its audience by including lots of references, it has a certain niche aesthetic  
  • adbusters reinforces its brand identity by not having any adverts but having lots of real issues and a news feed and have deep messages. There isn't any promotion on the websites which makes else capitalist   
  • The style of the website is 

3 - Ideology in practice and how adbusters interacts with its audience


buy nothing day makes the audience feels like they're doing something 
capitalism gives goals, there's a levels and goals you want to achieve 
reinforces ideologies we already have, adbusters are savage angry magazine. target audience middle class white person.  

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