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  • Racism and classism in Mexican advertising: an exhibition of visual messaging

Jones, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9356-9460, 2018, Book Section, Racism and classism in Mexican advertising: an exhibition of visual messaging In: Olteanu, Alin, Stables, Andrew and Borţun, Dimitru, (eds.) Meanings & Co. The interdisciplinary of Communication, Semiotics and Multimodality. Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress, 6 . Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 213-266. ISBN 9783319919850

Abstract or Description:

This paper explores how Mexico’s population has been faced with the polemics of class and race. This division continues today through the Mexican ruling class’s appropriation of advertising. I am interested in the functions and systems in place that allow this to propagate and how meaning is being reproduced unperceived by the audience. My thesis question asks, What are the visual representations of the power relationships in Mexico’s political economy as reflected through the appropriation of advertising? To answer this question, I perform a semiotic analysis of branded advertising messages created by the companies Bimbo, Palacio de Hierro and FEMSA, owned by the Mexican ruling families Servitje, Baillares and Garza respectively. Each television commercial is examined for signs, cultural codes, gestures, gaze and word tracks. These signs are decoded, and the conclusion is expressed through “An Exhibition of Visual Messaging”, designed to inform the Mexican public of how messages are constructed and received, empowering the viewer to interpret and challenge the meaning behind the communications they are receiving through the metamedia.

Official URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-31...
Subjects: Other > Mass Communications and Documentation > P900 Others in Mass Communications and Documentation > P990 Mass Communications and Documentation not elsewhere classified
School or Centre: School of Communication
Identification Number or DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91986-7
Date Deposited: 23 Jun 2020 14:18
Last Modified: 11 Mar 2022 10:35
URI: https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/4414
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