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A term which now has come to mean mass audience advertising and promotional campaigns—for example, to describe campaigns that are targeted at high volumes of consumers in a large number of...

The generation born between the end of the Second World War in 1945 and before mass introduction of the birth control pill in 1964. Strictly speaking the term actually applies to the USA,...

1. The largest newspaper page format, with long tall pages. In the UK The Daily Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times, and the Financial Times are broadsheets. Compare B...

Televisions, hi-fi equipment, etc., which were formerly often housed in wood or imitation wood cabinets. Compare white goods.

1. The distribution of a publication (particularly newspapers and magazines).

2. The number of copies sold of a single issue of a magazine or newspaper (s...

All non-programming time on radio and TV; this includes time given to advertising commercials, station or channel promotions, station or channel identifications, and programme credits....

A philosophical (specifically epistemological) stance in phenomenological sociology in which social realities are seen as the product of sociohistorically situated practices rather than...

1. (advertising) Written material produced by a copywriter.

2. In print journalism, written material provided by a journalist for a newspaper or magazine.

The art directors, designers, and copywriters in an ad agency, often distinguished from the ‘suits’ (such as account directors) by their unique culture and attitude.

In cultural studies, the issue, and study, of relationships between culture, subjectivity, ideology, and power: including issues of race, class, and gender. A key concern has been with...