Many times students are required to create what is a called a media artifact. Generally this is done in conjunction with a paper that must be written. So what is a media artifact exactly? A media artifact is simply media which is collected and available to be re-represented. Don’t be fooled by the term “artifact” [...]
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MTV’s Creative Anti-Marketing Pro Marketing Commercials For a Product that Doesn’t but Does Exist.
By Jeremiah Palecek
As many know MTV can be seen as a bastion of cutting edge marketing and advertising techniques since they cater to an ever changing younger demographic. As I was watching MTV I saw a new “advertisement” in between commercials. One could call this a station identification, or a promo, or perhaps even a trailer. In [...]
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“But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, [...]
