Transnational advertising and international relations: US press discourses on the Benetton 'we on death row' campaign

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Kraidy, Marwan M ^a   Goeddertz, Tamara ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Capital punishment; Europe; Globalization; Hegemony; Media framing; Transnational advertising

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037347004     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443703025002394     Document Type: Review

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