The Persuaders [PBS Frontline]

It has been a while since PBS's Frontline series broadcast a report on "the impact of new marketing methods on democratic processes", but its content is still as important.

The audience is broken as the choice of electronic media increases rapidly. This not only shares sharing, listening, visual, or connections with TV, iPod, DVD player, digital camera, computer, smartphone, satellite dish, etc. but also challenges and opportunities for challenge and opportunity. The arrangement looks infinite

Social, Interpersonal Relations, Dialogue - Even though it is self-perception, what happens if all the dialogue is considered a transaction and all the items in the world are covered with a logo? What happens when individuals become their "brands" and they are encouraged to promote, advertise, and promote what they are doing?

This is part of Frontline's producer research and sharing at The Persuaders. By understanding how market research aims to learn more about each one of us and by finding information on products and services accordingly, we will make it more attractive and harmful usefulness and motivation better You can understand.

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Since 2004, there was an episode "The Persuaders" at the forefront of a good PBS. It's about advertising and brand building. Douglas Rushkoff is a reporter for this episode. This collection will push focus groups and market research, brand experts, product placement experts, and products to consumers. The idea of ​​this technology is faced with a difficult fight to eliminate all other confusion which is contesting to attract attention. Then, there is a job of making desperate necessities. What is temptation? What kind of celebrity low-economic classes are eager to comply with Lister can have some kind of subtraction? This is the key

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