Week Two resources

http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/
Lots of funny info on how TV ads glam food products, models etc.

http://www.pbs.org/30secondcandidate/text/tricks_of_the_trade/
Shows tricks on how to emotionally manipulate an audience through music, lighting, makeup etc.

http://it.stlawu.edu/%7Eadvertiz/children/
The title is “The Rape of Our Children.” And the opening quote is, “The advertising man is the modern missionary: "Give me your children before they are five and they are mine forever!!!"

http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/kamimura/130/thesis/
This essay looks at the way gender roles are portayed in commercials.

http://www.adcritic.com/
This site looks at commercials and ads from the beginning of television. If y become a member, you can view from library of historic commercials.

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/MAinTV/analad.html
This gives good questions to take into consideration when you are assessing the effects of commercials and the intentions of the producers.

http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/slater/
This site looks at consumer culture, market society, sociology of the internet, and a specific look at the effects on Trinidad by the internet.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/adclass/teen/
This site looks at the effects on teens by advertising and how producers use advertising to manipulate them.

http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/
A Christian web site that wants to reform the way churches market themselves because, as the URL says, “Church marketing sucks!”

http://www.aiias.edu/ict/vol_03/03cc_021-039.htm
A Christians educator’s critique of television advertising looking at violence and sex in advertising.