Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hill, Tim
• McDonagh, Pierre

Titel

The Dark Side of Marketing Communications: Critical Marketing Perspectives

Auflage

1st

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• What 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. It 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 that are increasingly dominated by the communicative activities of business: sport, corporate social responsibility, social media, statistics, and entertainment. Bringing theories from marketing and consumer research, sociology, cultural studies, 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.