The waste crisis in Australia has been exacerbated in recent years, emphasising the need to investigate consumer recycling. Purchasing intention of products with recyclable packaging, or recycling shopping behaviour, is identified as a more relevant touchpoint to improve overall recycling...

Purpose - This study is an attempt to apply the techniques of semiotics in conjunction with quantitative analysis to decode and interpret an advertisement which promotes the South Australian Barossa Valley as a tourist destination. Design/methodology/approach - A survey was submitted to a...

The aim of this paper is to analyze a specific printed advertisement from two different semiotic points of view. First, we apply the interpretative instruments provided by the Barthes’ school of thinking (focused on the description of explicit signs taken in isolation). We then attempt to...

Purpose: Visual representations, as the mechanism of tourism discourses, are vital to the constructed realities of tourism. This paper aims to contribute to ongoing research on tourist postcards and tourist imagery, exploring how contemporary photographic tourist postcards act as narratives of...

Advertising being a study of human behavior and responses is subject to unpredictability and lack of clear answers. Its answers are at best probabilistic and never ever universal truths. As advertising is a lot about strong images and perceptions, the intensity of the imagery is quite...

Purpose: Visual representations, as the mechanism of tourism discourses, are vital to the constructed realities of tourism. This paper aims to contribute to ongoing research on tourist postcards and tourist imagery, exploring how contemporary photographic tourist postcards act as narratives of...

Despite the proliferation of studies on corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication, there is lack of consensus and a cardinal methodological base for research on the quality of CSR communication. Over the decades, studies on the subject have remained conflicting, unintegrated and...

Energy, as the most valuable concept of today, works with all disciplines, gains momentum, and increases all kinds of studies on energy and consciousness on the subject. The media provides the most rapid and effective awareness of energy, the requirements for efficient energy use, energy...

In this survey, the author suggests that individual experience — ostensibly that which informs and provides continuous momentum for legal action — is actually subsumed within the language of law. A sanitization of the pain suffered by human rights victims occurs when lawyer's 're-present'...