Advertising

Why should you care about advertising? Because you are the target. Corporations spend enormous sums to get you to buy their products. Read more at ibuydifferent.org and in the first chapter of Jean Kilbourne's Deadly Persuasion

Technigues and Study of Advertising This website goes into great depth in the study of the techniques advertisers use to lure you into acting and buying. We will be referring to various pages throughout our study of this unit. More information from other sources is also available under the links section. 

Great Advertising links from our textbook publisher

Gender in Advertising from the Advertising Educational Foundation. Includes lots of examples and explanation

Pink Vs Blue: gender stereotypes in product design

How to Read Ads: tough concepts, broken down in an easy to see manner.

Ads that are offensive to women (according to NOW, the National Organization of Women)