Mirror, Mirror: Some Postmodern Reflections on Global Advertising

Autor: Teresa J. Domzal, Jerome B. Kernan
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: Journal of Advertising. 22:1-20
ISSN: 1557-7805
0091-3367
DOI: 10.1080/00913367.1993.10673415
Popis: Global advertising succeeds when it is perceived in semiotically-equivalent ways by multicultural consumer segments. Before campaigns can be standardized, it is necessary to identify segments of consumers who share an ethos, since this represents the foundation for creating advertising executions that can be understood multiculturally. This paper develops the argument that fashion and food products — what people put on and in their bodies—enable the universally-held need of self-expression, and in that sense their perceptions are thereby driven by a common ethos. Certain consumers, apart from their resident cultures, regard these products in essentially equivalent, self-relevant ways, so they are prime candidates for global, if not wholly standardized, advertising. Two multicultural segments for which these products are especially self-relevant are identified: (1) the world's economically-elite consumers (a segment which has been widely recognized); and (2) the post-World-War-II generations of co...
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