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Combining shrewd analysis of contemporary practices with a historical perspective, Breaking Up America traces the momentous shift that began in the mid-1970s when advertisers rejected mass marketing in favor of more aggressive target marketing. Turow shows how advertisers exploit differences between consumers based on income, age, gender, race, marital status, ethnicity, and lifesyles. An important book for anyone wanting insight into the advertising and media worlds of today. In plain English, Joe Turow explains not only why our television set is on, but what we are watching. The frightening part is that we are being watched as we do it. ?Larry King Provocative, sweeping and well made . . . Turow draws an efficient portrait of a marketing complex determined to replace the 'society-making media' that had dominated for most of this century with 'segment-making media' that could zero in on the demographic and psychodemographic corners of our 260-million-person consumer marketplace. ?Randall Rothenberg, Atlantic MonthlyProduct Identifiers
PublisherThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN-139780226817507
eBay Product ID (ePID)94643804
Product Key Features
Publication NameBreaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media World
SubjectAdvertising, Marketing, Business
Publication Year1998
TypeTextbook
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
AuthorJoseph Turow
Number of Pages256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height227 mm
Item Weight388 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorJoseph Turow