Abstract
In this editorial for WPCC’s special issue on ‘Advertising for the Human Good’ editor Carl Jones outlines a few milestones demonstrating advertising’s potential via mass media for motivating progressive behaviours in the public. Matching corporate social responsibility ideals and reflecting the social concerns of millennial consumers and audiences is becoming increasingly important for brands and even governments.Whilst existing publications in academic and professional literature raise concerns over the links between capitalist consumerism and advertising, articles in this issue highlight different examples of practice or approach that have the potential to motivate progressive behaviours in various cultures. These include ambient advertising, neuroscience, brands’ cause donations, decolonisation and social modelling on the one hand, and anti-racism, recycling, sustainable tourism and choice of advertising talent, on the other.This editorial observes how the evolved practice of advertising can work within different ideologies, with the objective of generating advertising for the human good but also how change may need to come from within advertising and society generally as attitudes change over time.
Highlights
Whilst existing publications in academic and professional literature raise concerns over the links between capitalist consumerism and advertising, articles in this issue highlight different examples of practice or approach that have the potential to motivate progressive behaviours in various cultures. These include ambient advertising, neuroscience, brands’ cause donations, decolonisation and social modelling on the one hand, and anti-racism, recycling, sustainable tourism and choice of advertising talent, on the other. This editorial observes how the evolved practice of advertising can work within different ideologies, with the objective of generating advertising for the human good and how change may need to come from within advertising and society generally as attitudes change over time
This special issue ‘Advertising for the Human Good’ brings together media and communications scholars with practitioners, and analyses how advertising has the potential for motivating progressive behaviours in the public via mass media
In nation states run by non-liberal ideologies including communism, advertising is used by governments to educate publics, such as previously, China’s one baby per family policy
Summary
Whilst existing publications in academic and professional literature raise concerns over the links between capitalist consumerism and advertising, articles in this issue highlight different examples of practice or approach that have the potential to motivate progressive behaviours in various cultures. This editorial observes how the evolved practice of advertising can work within different ideologies, with the objective of generating advertising for the human good and how change may need to come from within advertising and society generally as attitudes change over time.
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