This article overviews 100 years of advertising studies in JMCQ. Four distinct eras are identified, each with different distinctive features. The advertising studies in JMCQ are compared with other recent journal overviews, Journal of Advertising (the and should not be in italics) International Journal of Advertising.
Perspectives on advertising and advertising theory -- What does "theories of advertising" mean? / by Esther Thorson and Shelly Rodgers -- Coloring outside the lines : suggestions for making advertising theory more meaningful / by Ronald J. Faber, Brittany R. L. Duff, and Xiaoli Nan -- Agency practitioners? : theories about advertising / by Gergely Nyilasy and Leonard N. Reid -- Psychological processes in response to advertisements -- The elaboration likelihood model : a thirty-year review / by David W. Schumann, Michael Kotowski, Ho-Young (Anthony) Ahn, and Curtis P. Haugtvedt -- The role of emotion in processing advertising / by Larry Percy -- Theories of emotion and affect in marketing communications / by Jon D. Morris -- Psychological and psychophysiological theories of advertising / by Paul Bolls, Kevin Wise, and Sam Bradley -- Involvement / by Eric Haley -- Specific audiences -- A theory of advertising to children / by Russell Laczniak and Les Carlson -- Theory advancement in international advertising : drawing on theories from strategic management and international business / by Charles R. Taylor, Shintaro Okazaki -- How advertising works within a cultural context : theories and framework informing the process / by Carrie La Ferle and Wei-Na Lee -- The reflexive game : how target and agent persuasion knowledge influence advertising persuasion / by Michelle R. Nelson and Chang Dae Ham -- Different types of advertising messages -- Creativity and ad theory / by Sheila L. Sasser and Scott Koslow -- Creativity and risk theories of advertising by douglas c. west, university of london -- A rhetorical theory of the advertisement / by Edward F. McQuarrie and Barbara J. Phillips -- Narrative advertisements and narrative processing / by ChingChing Chang -- Working toward an understanding of persuasion via engaging narrative advertising : refining the transportation- imagery model / by Lu Zheng and Joseph E. Phelps -- Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs : consumers, physicians, messages and complexity / by Kim Bartel Sheehan -- Theory building for online health product advertising / by Jisu Huh and Wonsun Shin -- Political advertising / by Marjolein Moorman and Peter Neijens -- Media and media devices -- Media analysis and decision-making / by Hugh M. Cannon -- Managing non-traditional advertising : a message processing framework / by Rick T. Wilson and Brian D. Till -- Role of technology in online persuasion : a main model perspective / by S. Shyam Sundar, Qian Xu and Xue Dou -- Lessons learned for teaching mobile advertising : critical review and future directions / by Shintaro Okazaki -- In-game advertising and advergames : a critical review of the past decade?s research / by Seounmi Youn and Mira Lee -- Social media and advertising theory / by Harshavardhan Gangadharbatla -- Organizations -- Toward a social ecology of advertising / by Christine Wright-Isak -- Brand concepts and advertising / by Dean M. Krugman and Jameson L. Hayes -- I know it when i see it : the definability and consequences of perceived fit in corporate social responsibility initiatives / by Amanda B. Bower and Stacy Landreth Grau -- Contexts of advertising -- Ethics and advertising theory / by Minette E. Drumwright -- Theory and law / by Jef Richards -- Four theories of how imc works / by Sandra Moriarty and Don Schultz -- Theories about health and advertising / by Joyce M. Wolburg -- The future of advertising theories -- Human barriers to using theory and research on responses to advertising messages / by Ivan L. Preston -- Toward theories of advertising : where do we go from here? / by Marla B. Royne -- Advancing advertising theories and scholarship / by Hairong Li -- Adventures in misplaced theories / by Herbert Jack Rotfeld -- Imc, advertising research, and the advertising discipline / by Patricia B. Rose
Advertising Theory provides detailed and current explorations of key theories in the advertising discipline. The volume gives a working knowledge of the primary theoretical approaches of advertising, offering a comprehensive synthesis of the vast literature in the area. Editors Shelly Rodgers and Esther Thorson have developed this volume as a forum in which to compare, contrast, and evaluate advertising theories in a comprehensive and structured presentation. Chapters provide concrete examples, case studies, and readings written by leading advertising scholars and educators. Utilizing McGuire's persuasion matrix as the structural model for each chapter, the text offers a wider lens through which to view the phenomenon of advertising as it operates within various environments. Within each area of advertising theory -- and across advertising contexts -- both traditional and non-traditional approaches are addressed, including electronic word-of-mouth advertising, user-generated advertising, and social media advertising contexts. As a benchmark for the current state of advertising theory, this text will facilitate a deeper understanding for advertising students, and will be required reading for advertising theory coursework.
This study outlines a psychophysiological model of the role of orienting responses (ORs) in learning from televised lectures. ORs are involuntary responses to environmental stimuli that are novel or that signal the occurrence of something meaningful in the environment. In the present study, ORs were indexed with phasic decelerative heart-rate patterns. The experiment demonstrates that insertion of videographics in talking-head lectures produces ORs in television viewers. It also demonstrates that if lectures contain familiar and therefore easier material for viewers to remember, the ORs enhance learning, but if the lectures contain unfamiliar and therefore more difficult material to remember, the ORs interfere with learning. These results extend the idea that attention to television exhibits limited attentional capacity and suggests that there is a trade-off between people's ability to attend to structural and informational aspects of the television stimulus.
This article summarizes results from a series of psychological experiments about how people process information from television. Results are discussed in relation to six issues: (1) size of stimulus units; (2) complexity of television stimuli; (3) interdependence of time units in television presentations; (4) intra- versus interstimulus differences in processing; (5) message form versus message content; and (6) active versus passive processing. Each issue is related to the processing concepts of attention, mental effort, and memory, and to the design of laboratory experiments using television stimuli.
With data from a 2000 telephone survey of a Midwestern community, the current study tests and reevaluates the cognitive mediation model. In doing so, the authors experiment with a news reliance index and three gratifications sought dimensions: surveillance, anticipated interaction, and guidance. Although there is support for the surveillance and guidance versions of the cognitive mediation model, findings change greatly with the inclusion of anticipated interaction gratifications sought. In a model with the three gratifications sought, the effects of surveillance and guidance on political knowledge fall out, whereas that of anticipated interaction is direct and unmediated. The authors explain these findings with reference to previous research and comment on how different measures of media use and gratifications sought may alter the cognitive mediation model.
This study examines whether the effects of the mass media on social capital and related processes vary between rural and urban communities. A distinction is made between indicators of social networks (association membership and neighborliness), social trust (interpersonal trust and community trust), and pro-social behaviors (voting and volunteering). We test nonrecursive structural equation models with manifest and latent variables on rural and urban U.S. samples. Media effects differ by medium and by community type. Newspaper use has positive effects in each model, while those of entertainment TV viewing are negative. Local TV news use has positive effects in only the urban model, while network TV news use has positive effects in only the rural model. In addition, there is a reciprocal relationship between social networks and social trust in the rural model, while the relationship is linear—from social networks to social trust—in the urban model.
A recent but robust phenomenon described in communication literature has been the third-person effect—the finding that in response to mass media messages, such as news stories and programs, people estimate themselves to be less affected than others. The present experiment asked whether this self-other pattern would characterize responses to two types of product commercials (i.e., those that did and those that did not engender emotion) and to public service announcements (PSAs). The authors were also concerned with how accurately people could estimate the effects of these types of ads on themselves and others. Results indicated that for neutral ads, people estimated themselves to be more resistant than others, but for emotional ads, people estimated themselves to be more yielding to influence than others. For PSAs, there were no differences in perceived self and other influence. In addition, judgments of persuasive influence on self and others were markedly overestimated. Perhaps most interestingly, there was both a directional (yielding vs. resistance) and a magnitudinal impact of emotion on the influence estimates.
Experiments are a powerful method for understanding causal relationships in journalism and mass communication research. In this essay, the authors examine seven aspects of experimental quality that reviewers should include as criteria in their evaluations. They note that there are complex interrelationships among these indicators. In cases where aspects of the standards are controversial, the authors attempt to summarize the conflicting arguments. Where different methodological conclusions can be rationalized as appropriate, the authors' suggestion is that the researcher make clear what decisions were made in the experimental design and why, so that readers can evaluate those decisions.