The authors suggest that advertisments, while important in our daily emotional self-management, are far more closely linked to the pragmatics of everyday life than their symbolic richness might suggest. Recent trends in advertisment content point to an important shift in our relationship to goods that reflects an increasing preoccupation with risk management.
Providings a critical review of the existing literature on advertising together with the results of an extensive research study, this book aims to develop a method for the psychosocial study of all forms of public communication.
