WORLD WIDE WEB SITES FOR CONSUMER CULTURE TYPES
(This list will be updated periodically. Last update 24 May 2001.)
Adbusters magazine "Culture Jamming Headquarters": http://www.adbusters.org/main/index.html
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History (Duke
University):
http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/hartman/
You can also get to this via http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ncdhtml/eaahome.html
Gallery of Advertising Parody: http://www.sharrow.com/parody.html
World War II Poster Art Exhibit from National Archives: http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/powers.html
Media History Project (lots of links from this one): http://www.mediahistory.com/
Advertising Law Internet Site: http://www.webcom.com/~lewrose/home.html
Articles from the e-journal CTheory (http://www.ctheory.com/):
"Nietzche
at the Mall: Deconstructing the Consumer"
Jean Baudrillard, "Disneyworld
Corporation"
Listing of cultural studies articles on consumerism and related topics: http://www.popcultures.com/articles/consumer.htm
Websites concerning Stuart Hall, a leading figure in Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK
Museum of Public Relations with section on Edward Bernays
Stay Free, an e-'Zine on consumer culture and advertising
Tony Schwartz, the man who devised LBJ's Daisy commercial in 1964, has a website. He was featured on All Things Considered on Feb. 26 and you can link from his site to that profile.
A list of advertising and consumer culture websites (which is part of a giant collection of links for scholarship in the humanities maintained at UC Santa Barbara). From this you can get to "The Media and Communications Site" section on advertising. And from there you can reach the site of Don Slater, a British theorist on consumer culture, which features a huge bibliography.
"Traces of Advertising Giants" with biographies and other information on advertising industry leaders from late nineteenth-century to the present
Series on new techniques in market research from Salon magazine--creepy stuff. Thank Stay Free! magazine for providing the link.
Library of Congress exhibit on "Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929"
Daniel Pope
Hist 608
Winter 1999 and beyond