INDIVIDUAL AS AN ADVERTISEMENT MEDIUM: REIFICATION
Abstract
The advertising industry has been growing and evolving since the day it existed, either by consuming the message transmission strategies and tools or by rebuilding them, or by creating new ones and attributing the already created ones to itself.
In today's world, the concept of advertising, which is defined as promotional activities aimed at increasing the sales of ideas, goods or services, defines not only promotional activities, but also producing new consumers who are ready with an ever-increasing appetite for consuming the advertised. The act of creating a new consumer typology that will ensure the continuity of this industry is indispensable for this production. In this context, the consumer who consumes to exist must be turned into an individual who exists to consume. For this new type of producer, any advertising to increase sales is functional and all kinds of tools are available. Because the visible universe is no longer a substential asset marketing the goods produced by factories, but rather an abstract device, a kind of simulator, or a demonstration space, produced by the advertising industry. Consumed at this universe is consumption itself. The consumer willingly enters into this formation which is telling him how to live through consumption. While the culture industry is shaping the life, the individual is only after the pleasure of consumption. The consumed one is no longer a material object, but a means of conveying meaning and an image to be used by the consumer in order to exhibit what consumer wants to be. In this case, the individual is transformed into a vehicle that carries the images produced by what he/she consumes.
In this context, the aim of the study is to critically evaluate the situation of the individual who is transformed into the innumerable means or media of the advertising industry in the process of message transmission.
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Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
Communication and Media Studies
Journal Section
Review
Authors
Rasim Sarıkaya
ÇANKIRI KARATEKİN ÜNİVERSİTESİ, GÜZEL SANATLAR FAKÜLTESİ, GRAFİK TASARIM BÖLÜMÜ
Türkiye
Publication Date
December 28, 2017
Submission Date
November 15, 2017
Acceptance Date
December 20, 2017
Published in Issue
Year 2017 Number: 8