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Artificial, cheap, fake

Free associations as a research method for outdoor billboard advertising and visual pollution

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ID6190876
AuthorsMarek Urban (0000-0003-2772-1388, Department of History and Theory of Art, Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University Pasteurova 9 400 96 Ústí nad Labem Czech Republic), Dany Josué Vigil Avilés (0000-0003-0213-9260, Department of Photography, Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University Pasteurova 9 400 96 Ústí nad Labem Czech Republic), Miloš Bojović (Department of Photography, Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University Pasteurova 9 400 96 Ústí nad Labem Czech Republic), Kamila Urban (0000-0003-4547-9804, Institute for Research in Social Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences Dúbravská cesta 9 845 11 Bratislava Slovakia)
Year2020
Volume30
Issue2
Pages253-268
Publication date2020-04-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1210-3055 • E-ISSN: 1337-401X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/humaff-2020-0023
OpenAlexW3029643334
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited31

The free association method is often employed in marketing research to investigate perceptions of a particular product or brand in different socio-cultural groups of customers. In our research, international and domestic students produced free associations in response to photographs of outdoor billboards from two different locations in one city (city centre and outskirts). The results indicate that free associations can depict qualitative aspects of outdoor billboards like poor quality (relating to the categories of amateurish and fake), problematic content (relating to female stereotypes, gender stereotypes and cultural differences), and that they have the potential to capture the general atmosphere of the neighbourhood (categories of decay, depression, danger and past

Advertising · Business · Perception · Sociology · Color perception and design · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Social Psychology

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Unique citing works1
Citations per year0,2
Citation span2021 - 2021 (1)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 1

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