Muriidi Posted March 30, 2010 To a certain extent advertising has both positive and negative effects on society. Advertisements both promote prosperity and also is propaganda. Advertising can effect people by making them donate blood (Source A), smoke cigarettes (Source B), and "reinforce racial, cultural, and sexual stereotypes (source D). Advertisements try to get consumers to follow what they are advertising or buy a product, sometimes through the use of subliminal messages, celebrity endorsements, or obvious signs. People in society are influenced by most advertisements they see and either buy what they see or talk about what they saw to other people. Advertising has a positive effect on society in some ways as it promotes prosperity. In the American Red Cross poster (source A) the band aids are a symbol of how easy it is to donate blood and how painless it is. Donating blood saves lives, and at the cost of a wound that will heal in a day, anyone could do this to help save a life. Advertising also "tells us about important issues such as the benefits of seatbelt use" (source D) Wearing seat belts has saved the lives of many people. Advertising helps to promote awareness of health and safety issues. Advertising has had a positive effect on me when I donated to the Haiti Relief Fund. Advertising has negative effects on society as it is propaganda. Smoking advertisements have "promoted the continued social acceptability and encouraged the incorrect belief that the majority of people smoke" (Source B). People who smoke may have seen a smoking ad that made it appear as everyone smokes, so they feel they need to fit in and start to smoke. Advertising also has made people become more "worried about dandruff... embarrassed by teeth that weren't blinding white, toilets that didn't smell fresh" (Source D) Ads have made people become paranoid about their looks and how their material objects appear to others. Advertising has had a negative effect on me when I wasted my money on The Perfect Pull Up, the ads showed that they were specially designed exercises, but they weren't. Advertising can help to save lives, but can also create false images in a consumers mind, making them buy material things that aren't necessities to their life. Society is influenced y every ad that is shown and it helps and ruins society at the same time. When society is influenced by an ad they can promote something for good, such as the Red Cross or they can help to promote corporations that just want to make money, such as Wal-Mart. Sources can be found at link below. web page Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muriidi Posted September 14, 2010 the following is an example of advertisement for "way of thought" used in some schools .. web page web page Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honesita Posted October 11, 2010 That's where the ethical question comes up... is the product really what you claim or are you merely speaking to make profit and you could careless about honesty? I was a marketing major and subhanna Allah, I can see how Allah has blessed me with the ability to convince people of ideas if I believe in them... it's scary sometimes... but dad baa bohol kadhaci kara if you speak with passion about something negative... Fi Amaani'Laah Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muriidi Posted October 12, 2010 speaking of ethics .. who would have thought that java and wikipedia are working in the same field? through wiki.org presence as an online encyclopedia (or should i say wiki-presence ..?) where as java doing it's work in the background unnoticed by most .. not interfering with what you believe , just techno. business meeting student club life .. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
