Did you believe the images you see from different
media platform are real from the external world? Have you experienced that the
things you consume are different from the media images? Nowadays the extension
of media images detached from the external world become wider. The media images
have a big difference to the real things.
The advertisements of toothpaste always
provide the images of whitening and brightening teeth. And tell the consumer
that after using the toothpaste the consumer will have the same whitening and
brightening teeth. But is it really becomes the same with the advertisement after
using the toothpaste? The result is not. That’s why the advertisement will
remark the wording like; individual result may vary, in the inconspicuous
space.
The reason that the phenomenon will appear is
because of the implication of hyper-reality for the economy. There are economic
inequality increases and the need to defend that inequality through
manipulation of information will also increase. And the marketing have
increasing license to create more value. In this case, there are lots of different
brands of toothpaste and they need to provide the exaggerate information to
attract the consumer. That’s why the advertisement of toothpaste becomes
unreal.
Here is the example of the advertisement
of toothpaste.
Colgate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Reun8faCEvU
Dear Hoiyin, The discussion addresses the topic in an appropriate way though it seems simple. An appropriate reference to 'hyper-real' is also found. Nice work!
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