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

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/subject/philosophy/works/ge/adorno.htm

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/

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

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

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

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

How powerful is advertising?
- A review of Breaking Up America, by Joseph Turow. From the Atlantic Monthly.
- 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.
- 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.
- http://www.salon.com/media/media961217.html

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

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.
- http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/09/29/persuaders3/