As many people in this generation only care so little about ads, it challenges advertisers to be more creative, and even be smarter than ever in creating their ads. ... So, with this in mind, advertisers want to create meaningful ads that consumers actually can connect to and interact with. ... According to Interactive Advertising Bureau, the revenue of online Advertising has grown enormously, from U.S. $1.8 Billion to $20 billion in 2007. ... " (Harris, 2000) Women in Advertising Long ago, advertising was primarily focused on promoting the product or service. ... In addition, advertis...

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However, the ad is creating "false needs," as women do not need these bars to obtain the physique they want. ... Advertising companies like Detour use narrowcasting to reach a certain demographic. In this specific advertisement, the target audience are adult females who want to get in shape. ... However, the relationship they are attempting to build is creating false needs, as women do not need this product to get into shape. ... By selling the physique of the woman, detour creates a false need which in turn creates a supply for their product which boosts capital. ...

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Society creates gender stereotypes When I was a child I grew up with a stay at home mother. ... This happens because society creates gender stereotypes. ... Advertising and magazines influence society and give gender stereotypes. "In sex Lies and Advertising" by Gloria Steinman she writes about how advertising is set up. ... Society creates gender stereo types. ...

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One big part of the media is advertising. Advertising is how companies introduce their products to the general public. ... It has also become a huge part of economy stimulation by creating thousands of jobs. ... All parents want their children to grow up in a safe and stable environment. ... Advertisements are always exploiting emotions and desires, but it is up to us to believe what we want to believe and choose what we want to see....

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In defining semiotics in its relation to advertising, Leiss writes, "semiotics highlights the way that we ourselves take part in the creation of meaning in messages, suggesting that we are not mere bystanders in the advertising process, but participants in creating a code that unites the designer and reader.... " The ad is effective in its portrayal of another common symbol in advertising: the importance of celebrity. ... " There's a universal appeal to seeing women portrayed as confidently and glamorously as Paris Hilton and the woman presented in the contact lens ad; as c...

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The new Fusion ProGlide Styler advertisement features a woman as its spokesperson giving a woman's perspective of what women want men to look like. ... Advertisements are created to generate the interest of the consumer and to facilitate increased consumption of products and services. Advertising is a billion dollar industry in America. Not only do the advertisers create advertisements, but they spend huge sums of money to run, test, and measure advertising effectiveness....

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One reason media is so influential is that advertising is a 130 billion dollar a year industry. ... Advertising is a powerful educational force in our culture due to the simple fact of exposure. ... In order to create a market for their product, they attempt to make women feel inadequate about their own bodies through advertisement. ... It appeals to that basic human desire to be wanted, accepted, and be seen as sexually attractive. ... As Michael Sones said in an article for Beauty Worlds; These advertising stereotypes were successful, not because they created these images, but becau...

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These models are desired by all, for example, men want to have them and women practically kill themselves trying to look and act like them. ... "The aspect of advertising most in need of analysis and change is the portrayal of women. ... They want to gain male attention, and they desire to be popular" (Powell 148). ... All things considered, advertising creates a mythical, mostly white world in which people are rarely ugly, overweight, poor, struggling or disabled, either physically or mentally (unless you count the housewives who talk to little men in toilet bowls)" (Kilbourne). ... The medi...

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The celebrities in these shows are seen as role models to women so women want to mimic their style. ... "Real life" Barbie dolls are created by the media and fashion magazines using photo shop, full faces of make-up, and a lot of airbrushing. ... By definition they are people that want to develop an eating disorder as a technique to lose weight. ... It featured women of all shapes, sizes, ages, and races advertising their products. ... This is an extreme contrast from the other companies spending millions of dollars advertising their products using photo shopped and airbrushed mode...

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The command and influence that advertising has on the consumer is quite simply amazing. ... This is another product which holds the same motives of creating the perfect model of a woman. ... However, the underlying message once again is creating an accomplished and perfected 1950s woman. ... Producers want to put an ideal in these ladies heads that it is possible to be like the stars they see on the screen. ...

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In Jean Kilbourne's essay, ""Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt": Advertising and Violence," the author illustrates excellent examples of sexism in advertising. She suggests that a main theme in advertising is the idea that, "The woman is rewarded for her sexuality by the man's wealth, (Kilbourne 445)." ... Now it probably was not their intention to undermine their femininity, but they just wanted to provide women with a choice. ... Whatever you want to call it, femininity was lost. ... Men and women were not created equal, rather opposite to balance each other out. ...

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To interpret and analyze this advertising campaign I am going to use Roland Barthes' semiotic model and support it with works from Jonathan Bingel's Media Semiotics, Liberty McAnena's essay Lost Girls, Greek myth about Amazons, K. ... There is certain darkness in the picture that creates a cold feel and ties in a foreboding aura. It is also a bit emotionally isolating which can seem that photographer wanted to create a subversive, conceptual and a bit sexual touch. ... (Evans, 2013) McQueen's woman was a strong confident woman and in relation to the Highland Rape collectio...

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I really want to look at one commercial and one ad both for hamburger establishments. Burger King and Carl's Junior that truly show just how much media shows that women are seen as nothing more than objects, and not as innovators, who are taking a more active role in their careers, leading large companies, own their own businesses, who are very active in their communities, motivate, and create positive change in the world. ... Overcoming obstacles for years has changed nothing in the advertising world and, as a result, woman suffer. ... Yes, woman want to be noticed. Yes, woman want to b...

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The room is dark but the area around her is quite bright because there is a lamp on the piano plus light is coming in from the advertising spaceship outside. ... The soundtrack of "Blade Runner " was created by the great Greek film composer Vangelis. He used a lot of electronic and blues music in the movie in order to create a feeling of the end of the century. ... Deckard is angry because Rachel does not want to face her feelings. ...

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For the most part it's because the advertisements are created to conform to assumptions about the people who are purchasing the product or viewing the ad (whether it's on TV, in a magazine or on the radio.) ... Since you're bombarded with ads everywhere you turn, many advertisers want to get shock value by forcing you to look at what it is their selling. ... Kilbourne does an excellent job convincing the viewer of the offensive attempts the advertising industry makes to suck you into buying their product. ... So does all of this advertising affect morality and loyal...

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There is a powerful female figure in the ad which can attract both male and female consumers to the product, however, it may also limit the effectiveness of advertising differently in the future. ... At the bottom of their advertisement, the company has their website and phone number if people want to look up their products or get in contact with them. ... Advertising takes consumer emotions into account when establishing a marketing technique or approach. ... Some women might feel empowered and want to own the mop to be seen as powerful and fit, while maintaining a clean home. ... The adverti...

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Calvin Klein doesn't want viewers to simply focus on the clothes, but on how the clothes look on these particular people. ... There for it could appear as though these advertisements are designed specifically to create envy in people looking at them, and one way to be similar to these models is to at least dress like them. The audience targeted in this ad campaign is the youth who want to come off as trendy and fashionable. ... Through black and white images, eye contact, simplicity, and modeled poses and dances, Calvin Klein has created a memorable set of advertisements. This along ...

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You can examine representations of women in sexualizing and objectified manner in the media including commercials, television programs, movies, music lyrics and videos, magazines, advertising, video games, and Internet sites where women are revealed wearing provocative cloths, and posing in ways that emphasize their body parts and sexual readiness. As Jean Kilbourne, an internationally recognized for her work on the image of women in advertising, clarifies in her "Killing Us Softly 4" filmed speech; advertisements that intend to send such pictures to the audience create negative fram...

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Whatever created the human race also created a subdivision within it, namely men and women; though the two creatures are very much similar to each other except that they differ in only one thing, a single microscopic chromosome. ... These images reflect the "Ideal American woman-, and are not just portrayed in women's health magazines, but are evident in all forms of media advertising, from television ads to cigarette box ads. ... The reason behind effectiveness of advertisements of this nature is highlighted by Naomi Wolf in her article The Beauty Myth, "Women must want to embody it [b...

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The most important thing about gender is that its meaning is created by society: people are expected to behave and express themselves in certain ways that are consistent with the socially pre-determined gender role associated with their sex. ... The category sex refers to our biological makeup, and uses certain biological markers (such as our genitals) to create the distinction between females and males. ... Gender, however, comprises two "sets" of social characteristics, which combine to create the categories of "woman" (girl) and "man" (boy). ... But the essential fact is that our gender r...

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The photograph is then digitally altered to create a better look for the model. ... At the intervention after the video played, they raised a discussion about the video and from the information collected after the video, it was clear that the "adolescent girls generalize from observing these specific alterations to apply them to adjustments that can be made to all body dimensions in advertising images" (Halliwell, Easun, and Harcourt 397). ... Majority of the girls who think badly about themselves have thought of harmful ways to get them to look the way they want, or to get them t...

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Representation is a way of re-presenting certain events or stories to the audience. However real the representation seems, it can never really offer its audience a true presentation of ideas. In this way, the media uses representation to simplify a text allowing their audience to consume it in a c...

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