Advertising Links

As a resource for studying advertising, the Internet is both dazzling in its promise and daunting in its overwhelming disarray. This page lists a few selected sites that students in this class found of interest.
College and University Gatherings of Links

Advertising World is a page maintained by the University of Texas that provides many useful links to anything and everything advertising related.
University of Iowa Gateway to advertising studies
Advertising Links provided by the University of Oregon Ad Club
Advertising at the Media & Communication Studies Site
A Semiotics Site at the University of Colorado at Denver
The Gallery of the Absurd will tickle your funny bone with strange and amusing ads.

Online magazines related to advertising, and magazines with online articles.

Classic writings of cultural criticism on the web -- full text.

Roland Barthes. Mythologies. 1972, Hill & Wang. http://wwwcatsic.ucsc.edu/~ltmo128/barthesmyth1.html
Guy Debord. The Society of the Spectacle. 1969. Red & Black. http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord/SOTS/sotscontents.html

Online Journals or Publication Sites

Online articles on the web -- these are essays about the culture of advertising that we came across in our research that we found of interest.

Paul Smith, "Tommy Hilfiger in the Age of Mass Customization"
Ted Friedman, "Milli Vanilli and the Scapegoating of the Inauthentic"
A Sociological Analysis of Childrens TV ads at St. Lawrence University, Dept of Sociology.
Merris Griffiths, "A Semiotic Analysis Of Diesel Print Ads"
Andrew Wernick, "Vehicles for Myth"
Nike
Rebel advertising

Sites where one can find the ads themselves

Advertising agencies online

Advertising Schools

created by michaud@lclark.edu for the American Advertising and the Science of Signs Class at Lewis & Clark College.