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Proceedings of

4th International Conference on Advances in Management, Economics and Social Science MES 2016

"SUBVERTISING ACTIVISM IN TURKEY EXPLORING A CRITICAL ALTERNATIVE"

ALPARSLAN NAS
DOI
10.15224/978-1-63248-103-0-51
Pages
10 - 14
Authors
1
ISBN
978-1-63248-103-0

Abstract: “This paper analyzes the act of subvertising in Turkey with a focus on a recent anti-consumerist campaign led by activists against a national brand. The act of subvertising has been evaluated as a critical activism under the general label of “culture jamming”, which aims to challenge the hegemonic meanings conveyed by media messages. Particularly, advertising and branding have been the facilities that were targeted by culture jammers and advertisers due to their potentials of carrying out hegemonic discourses of class, gender and ethnicity. With an analysis of a recent advertising campaign by Doğadan, an herbal tea company that caused the outrage of women due to the sexist messages that it conveys, this paper will draw attention to the ways in w”

Keywords: advertising, subvertising, Turkey, visual culture, branding, gender, culture jamming

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