Cultural codes, ideological discourse, and rhetorical processes have been acknowledged as influences on consumer's relationships with advertising, brands and mass media. If brands exist as cultural, ideological, and rhetorical objects, then researchers require tools developed to understand...

In this chapter, we investigate marketing communication's role in the taken-for-granted political and ethical practices of envisioning others (Heywood amp; Sandywell, 1999, p. x). Ethically motivated criticisms of marketing communications are often simplistically understood as generalized...

pt. 1. Thinking visually about organization -- pt. 2. Strategies of visual organization -- pt. 3. Visual methodologies and methods -- pt. 4. Visual identities and practices -- pt. 5. Visual representations of organization.

This paper presents a visual perspective on consumption. Following the interpretive turn in management and marketing scholarship, my research on the production and consumption of images draws from art history, photography, and visual studies to develop an interdisciplinary, visual approach to...