Adbusters quote and theories.

In what ways can audiences use Adbusters? - Stuart Halls reception theory.

• Awaken the audience on issues happening in the world like poverty and inequality. 
• Offers the audience freedom from conventional magazines. 
• Middle class audiences identify with it.
• Adbusters want their audiences to actively read it.
• Adbusters is educational to world problems.
• Digital convergence Adbusters has a website and social media accounts.
• Escape from reality.
• Adbusters give audiences status.
• Adbusters is a commodity.
• Adbusters is like a luxury item meaning they are hypocrites.

      

• Quote from Bruce Schneier.
• Author get publicity of his book by having his quote in Adbusters. 
• The messy look of the text symbolises that society is broken.
• This article tells us how technology is really apart/affecting our lives.

Curran and Seaton- Power in the media industries.

- This theory is based on how the media is controlled by a small number of companies.

Sonia Livingstone and Peter Lunt- Regulation.

- The theory that guidelines of media products are pointless.

• Adbusters suggest that the media is powered by rich industries.
• Adbusters is anti-ads.
• No profit business.
• Their purpose is to influence and change society.
• Curran and Seaton's book mentions propaganda and states it doesn't work.