There is not any going back to normal Air New Zealand Ad created for the reopening of the travel bubble BRAND: Air New Zealand PRODUCT/SERVICE: Trans-Tasman Bubble OBJECTIVES: Create awareness of Air New Zealand services to and from New Zealand and increase sales TARGET AUDIENCE: Travel starved 20 somethings SMP: Fly to a picture-perfect paradise…
An Internet of Humanity IoH to resist Surveillance Capitalism There’s the Internet of things IoT but what about the Internet of Humanity IoH? Introduction While self-tracking with the rise of the IoT is contributing to many pro-social benefits for public health, these practices are also transforming notions of the public and private self and raising…
Advertising identifies trends, raids culture and constructs desires (Lyth, p3). Through a semiotic qualitative textual analysis, this paper explores how Coca Cola advertisements, at three key junctures in history, have relied upon an authentic/commercial binary that has existed since the Romantic turn during the Enlightenment to promote the myth of a depth ontology and an…
The role celebrities play in promoting cosmopolitan values over communitarian tribalism was highlighted in the recent presidential inauguration of Donald Trump which was shunned by many A-list celebrities. This was contrasted with the widespread support for anti-Trump rallies like Alec Baldwin’s. Trump’s communitarian, tribal and divisive America first campaign strategy which was an affront to…
A series of blog posts about fame and celebrity culture