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Mara Einstein is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens College as well as a professor at the business school at New York University.
Obras de Mara Einstein
Black Ops Advertising: Native Ads, Content Marketing and the Covert World of the Digital Sell (2016) 37 copias
Compassion, Inc.: How Corporate America Blurs the Line between What We Buy, Who We Are, and Those We Help (2012) 12 copias
Brands of Faith: Marketing Religion in a Commercial Age (Media, Religion and Culture) (2007) 11 copias
Black Ops Advertising 2 copias
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Also covered here are covert types of Internet marketing that make use of cookies and trackers, click-bait teasers that open the gates to more ads, cookies, and trackers, the use of big data to analyze and target people individually for marketing purposes. Many excellent examples of these devices are provided.
Einstein is properly concerned with the issue of how the relentless exposure to hidden marketing mechanisms can transform us from compassionate individuals connected to friends, family, the environment, and other worthy causes into shallow brand-addicted mega-consumers. Her background is itself in marketing, so this enables her to be up-to-date on the latest developments in latent marketing. Yet at times this same background sometimes seems to prevent her from making a clean break with her field. She admires certain clever ads that seem benign and says we should all opt for a world in which ads support the delivery of media rather than one in
which we pay un-affordable prices for content. Yet the success of Netflix's pay-for-content model contradicts this premise. Consumer Reports does not accept ads and offers a reasonable pricing, as did Mad Magazine for many years. Adbusters and Highlights, a children's magazine, similarly do not accept ads and the Atlantic is experimenting with an ad-free version. I would have liked to see a more thorough examination of possible
alternative ad-free worlds, for example one in which revenue-neutral advertising taxes were used to fund media outlets untainted by advertisers and their money. That aside, this is an important eye-opening book that follows a trend that threatens to become even more pernicious than it already is.… (más)