 Logo Logic: The Ups and Downs of Branded Political CommunicationW. Lance Bennett and
Taso Lagos
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2007, vol. 611, issue 1, 193-206 Abstract: Activists often have difficulties getting messages to larger publics. This is particularly challenging in the U.S. press/politics system, where the mainstream media tend to open the news gates only after government institutions engage with issues. Yet there are signs in recent years that activists are finding creative ways of publicizing their causes by attaching political messages to familiar corporate brands. For example, complex messages about labor conditions in foreign factories making shoes and apparel may travel more easily when attached to a major brand, for example, Nike sweatshop. The first part of this analysis examines how branded political communication works and how it may be effective. The second part looks at possible downsides of getting consumer audiences to actually grasp the larger import of the politics behind the brands and getting targeted companies and industrial sectors (fashion, food, forest products, etc.) to change their offending behaviors. Keywords: political communication; logo campaigns; consumer politics; product certification; culture jamming; corporate social responsibility (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:anname:v:611:y:2007:i:1:p:193-206 Access Statistics for this article More articles in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |
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