Decoding the Globe
Globalism, Advertising, and Corporate Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4831472 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Mchaffie (West Georgia College, Carrollton, GA 30118, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-86 |
| Publication date | 1997-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d150073 |
| OpenAlex | W2008197984 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 13 |
The current graphical rhetoric of advertising includes everything from images of the globe borrowed from the US space program (for example, Hewlett-Packard Corp. computer systems), to pseudotribal renderings of a very different sort [for example, Minute Maid's (The Coca Cola Co.) Fruitopia]. The use of these images are part of what Goldman calls the economy of 'commodity signs', where produced meanings are linked to commodities through the medium of the print or broadcast advertisement. The increased incorporation of global images in Western advertising presents an opportunity to analyze the ideological underpinning of the 'new global economy'. The sheer volume of purchased advertising space places these often confusing images before our eyes at an increasing pace, producing meanings which tend to obfuscate and fetishize discourse related to globalism. A decoding of specific advertisements with the use of the Hewlett-Packard Corporation as a case study, juxtaposed against the real spatial practices of the company will reveal ruptures, contradictions, and incoherence in advertising messages which appropriate the symbolic power of global images
Advertising · Advertising campaign · Business · Globalism · Globalization · Globe · Hyperbole · Ideology · Mainstream · Media studies · Metaphor · Pace · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Law · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,48 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2015 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |