Morality, immorality and amorality  concerning the communication in advertising Cover Image

Moralitate, imoralitate şi amoralitate în comunicarea publicitară
Morality, immorality and amorality concerning the communication in advertising

Author(s): Melinda Izabela Achim
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: advertising; moral; immoral; amoral; persuasion; manipulation;

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to examine the communication in advertising along the lines of the trichotomy moral-immoral-amoral. The communication in advertising is, in principle and instrumentally, an amoral, ideal and actional construction, but its socio-cultural and economic actualizations can be characterized by the binomial moral-immoral. And often, these updates tend (themselves or through their perspective) towards the spectrum of immorality. This paper aims, from a neutral point of view, to complete this picture showing some essential forms of dynamic equilibrium between all three terms of the relationship morality-immorality-amorality in respect of the communication in advertising.

  • Issue Year: XXIII/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 339-346
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian