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Media and Communication
Quick questions on Advertising and consumer culture explained: H1 General Paper
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What is consumer culture?Show answer
Behind advertising sits consumer culture, which a related question may target directly. It brings real benefits, higher living standards, choice, innovation, self-expression, and real costs, materialism that crowds out other values, debt and dissatisfaction (the "hedonic treadmill", where rising consumption fails to raise lasting happiness), overconsumption and environmental harm, and the reduction of citizens to consumers. The balanced reframing is that the question is not all-or-nothing but how to keep the benefits of a productive consumer economy while resisting its excesses, through values, regulation and sustainability.
What are vague examples?Show answer
"Adverts are everywhere" evidences little. Use specific techniques such as lifestyle branding or micro-targeting.
What is q1?Show answer
Explain why "inform versus manipulate" is better seen as a spectrum than a binary. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Identify one cost of consumer culture. [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Explain why the manipulative tilt of modern advertising is described as "a matter of degree and design". [3 marks]
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