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Ch. 6: Fantasies for Sale: Marketing American Culture
 
Adbusters.Org
http://www.adbusters.org/
Adbusters is an organization that works to promote an anti-consumerist vision, by pointing out (mainly through spoof ads) the marketing techniques and slippery tactics of corporate images, advertisements, and promotional opportunities, a movement called culture jamming. They are also heavily involved in National Buy Nothing Day. If nothing else, the ads themselves are quite amusing to see.

The American Advertising Museum
http://www.admuseum.org
This museum's Web site includes an excellent timeline of American advertising and photos of old magazine ads.

Media Watch
http://www.mediawatch.com
Media Watch distributes educational videos, media literacy information, and newsletters to help create more informed consumers of the mass media. An especially useful tool is the Media Watch Archive, which features substantive readings on race, sex, and violence in the media.

Obey Giant
http://www.obeygiant.com/articles.html
This site was created by signposter artist Shepherd Fairey, creator of the Andre the Giant Has a Posse sticker. Besides a thorough mission statement regarding his ever-present art, the articles section of this site contains the artist's personal thoughts and analyses of what signs and advertising mean about iconography in pop culture.

Salon.com: Advertising and Media
http://archive.salon.com/archives/2000/col_shal.html
In this commentary in the online magazine Salon, a media critic discusses the advertising industry with topics ranging from the success of Super Bowl commercials to the psychology behind corporate mascots such as the virtuous Pillsbury doughboy and the luckless Trix rabbit.

Stay Free Magazine
http://metalab.unc.edu/stayfree/
This is an incredible journal of marketing, American culture, and commercialism. The site includes online subscription services, as well as an archive of earlier issues, which feature fake ads, pop-culture tirades, and well-written articles, many of which are by Editor Carrie McLaren. This is a more investigative, streamlined version of Adbusters.