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The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception A chapter from Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment on the mass-production of culture. http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm

Eradicating the Stain What's the difference between advertising and graffiti? http://eserver.org/bs/20/Luna.html

How does wealth influence the mass media? "The main business of the media is to sell audiences to advertisers." Presentation of Chomsky's "Propaganda model" of mass media. http://flag.blackened.net/intanark/faq/secD3.html

The Media and Communication Studies Site Advertising section forms part of "the definitive site for British media studies." http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Sections/advert.html

Stay Free! Non-profit magazine examining commercialism and American culture. http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/

Subliminal Advertising Numerous examples and commentary on a range of subliminal adverts. Analysis is based on the work of Wilson Key. http://www.poleshift.org/sublim/

Toward a critical theory of advertising An analysis of advertising within a critical theory of society which combines historical, sociological, cultural, and political analysis. http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell6.htm

Return of the hidden persuaders - part three Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists. (September 29, 1999) http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/29/persuaders3/

Return of the hidden persuaders - part two Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists. (September 28, 1999) http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/28/hypnosis/

Return of the hidden persuaders - part one Salon Media series looking at the latest gurus on Madison Avenue - semioticians, anthropologists and ego psychologists. (September 27, 1999) http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/27/persuaders/

Up in smoke The billboard-liberation movement gathers to celebrate 20 years of ad "improvement." From Salon. (May 3, 1999) http://www.salon.com/media/col/poni/1999/05/03/billboards/

How powerful is advertising? A review of Breaking Up America, by Joseph Turow. From the Atlantic Monthly. (June 1, 1997) http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jun/advert.htm

And now, a turd from our sponsors The First Annual Counter-Clio Awards honor the worst that advertising has to offer. From Salon magazine. (May 1, 1997) http://www.salon.com/may97/media/media970515.html

The Hidden Persuader Looking back at Vance Packard's contribution in educating people about social impact of advertising. Article from Salon. (December 17, 1996) http://www.salon.com/media/media961217.html