Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Advertising criticism'

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.
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The economic analysts on Wall Street had all but signed Chrysler's death certificate when Lee Iacocca took the reins of a floundering corporate giant in 1979. At this writing (1985) Chrysler's $1.2 billion in government backed loans has been paid back seven years ahead of schedule and the company has reported profits well over $550 million. During Chrysler's recovery, a large public relations and advertising campaign was launched to promote Chrysler's new products and to present consumers with a more positive image of the company. This study was undertaken for two purposes. The first was to examine the changes in the presentation and content of Chrysler's image during the campaign. The second was to undertake a Burkean analysis of the persuasive messages of the campaign in order to assess their motivational structure, ideological perspective and potential effectiveness. How did the image of the Chrysler Corporation change from the time of the federally approved loan in 1979 to its repayment of loans in 1983? To answer the question, this writer employed a method of Burkean analysis to assess the rhetorical values of the Chrysler-paid media campaign. Uncontrolled media coverage was also examined, since it constituted a significant part of the rhetorical situation to which the paid media campaign had to respond. The results were a profile of Chrysler's attempts to gain identification with its constituents. What was the motivational and ideological thrust of the appeals? It was discovered that prior to the federal loan guarantee, Chrysler utilized scenic arguments claiming its own victimage. High energy costs, Japanese imports, runaway inflation, and government regulations were cited as factors contributing to its financial difficulties. After Chrysler successfully repaid its loan, its message was changed to emphasize the Agent: We the New Chrysler Corporation have great leadership and competence and these are the ingredients that led to our success. Chrysler's financial success provided the basis for changing its image from that of a failure to that of a hero.

Šiuo metu reklama yra vienas svarbiausių faktorių norint pritraukti kuo daugiau klientų, formuoti jų poreikius ir taip užtikrinti, kad jie taptų nuolatiniais klientais. Dažnai tais nuolatiniais klientais tampa paaugliai. Paaugliai yra ypatinga žiūrovų grupė. Kitaip nei suaugusieji, jie ne visada supranta, kas yra reklama ir ko siekia jos kūrėjai. Pagrindinis veiksnys, lemiantis kaip vaikas ar paauglys suvokia reklamą, yra jo amžius. Tyrimo objektas — paauglių požiūris į reklamą kaip sociokultūrinį reiškinį. Tyrimo tikslas — išsiaiškinti paauglių požiūrį į reklamą kaip sociokultūrinį reiškinį. Hipotezė: kadangi reklama ugdo vartotojišką visuomenę, todėl išsiaiškinus paauglių požiūrį į reklamą kaip sociokultūrinį reiškinį galėtume suprasti, kaip jie ją suvokia ir pateikti rekomendacijas kaip reikėtų mokyti paauglius suvokti reklamą. Tyrimo uždaviniai: 1) remiantis literatūra atskleisti reklamos kaip sociokultūrinio reiškinio ypatybes; 2) aptarti paauglystės amžiaus tarpsnio psichologinius aspektus; 3) ištirti paauglių požiūrį į reklamą kaip sociokultūrinį reiškinį. Tyrimo metodai. Teoriniai: literatūros nagrinėjančios reklamos kaip sociokultūrinio reiškinio bei paauglystės amžiaus tarpsnio psichologinius ypatumus sisteminė analizė. Empirinis: konstatuojamasis tyrimas (anketinė VII-X klasių mokinių apklausa). Matematinės statistikos metodai: procentinė duomenų analizė, koreliacinė analizė, chi kvadrato kriterijaus taikymas. Išvados. 1. Reklama atspindi mūsų kultūrą, politiką... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
Nowadays advertising is one of the major factors used in order to attract as many clients as possible, form their needs and in such way guarantee that they would become regular clients. Usually these regular clients are teenagers. They are a special group of spectators. Unlike adults, they do not always understand what advertising is and what their creators seek for by it. The principal factor, influencing how a child or a teenager understands advertising, is his age. Objective of the research is teenagers’ attitude towards advertising as a socio-cultural phenomenon. The aim of research is to find out teenagers’ attitude towards advertising as a socio-cultural phenomenon. The hypothesis is the following: whereas advertising develop consumer society; therefore, having analyzed teenagers’ attitude towards advertising as a socio-cultural phenomenon, we could understand how they conceive it and offer recommendations how to teach teenagers to understand the advertising. The goals of research: 1) to reveal the features of advertising as a socio-cultural phenomenon in accordance with the bibliography; 2) to discuss the psychological aspects of the stage of adolescence; 3) to analyze teenagers’ attitude towards advertising as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Research methods. Theoretical: system analysis of bibliography analyzing psychological peculiarities of advertising as a socio-cultural phenomenon and of the stage of adolescence. Empirical: declarative research (questionnaire... [to full text]

Grafinio dizaino vystymasis, reklama, vizualiosios reklamos objektai, reklama ir jos objektai, plakatai ir socialinės problemos, tai dalis mūsų visuomenės reiškinių. Atsižvelgiant į tai, kad socialinių problemų vis daugėja, o efektyvios šviečiamosios informacijos nėra daug, savo magistrinio darbo temą ir praktinį darbą siejau su socialinės reklamos sritimi. Socialinės reklamos reikalingumas yra labai svarbus atsižvelgiant į šių dienų aktualijas ir kintančią mūsų visuomenę. Magistrinio darbo tema: Socialinės reklamos projektas „Įspėjimai“. Ją sudaro dvi potemės: „Karas keliuose“ ir „Prekyba žmonėmis“ . Gilindamasi į šias problemas, ir esamų problemų grafinius sprendimus, mano pasirinkimu kuriant grafinio dizaino projektą „Įspėjimai“ buvo aktualizuojamos naujos visuomenės socialinės problemos, pateikiant įspėjimus vizualiai interpretuojant daiktų išskirtines savybes. Nagrinėjamos problemos ir jų svarba yra pateikti kitokiame kontekste, labiau gilinantis į pačių svarbiausių aktualijų turinį ir projekto vizualinius išskirtinius pateikimus, kurių pasėkoje, projekto įspėjimai ir bendra jungianti socialinių plakatų vizualizacija ir jų „kitoks pateikimas“ leido į šias problemas pažvelgti kur kas svarbiau ir aktualiau. Grafinis plakatų sprendimas tik dar labiau pabrėžia ir atskleidžia kiekvieno „Įspėjimo“ turinį ir reikšmę. Techniniame projekte sukurta dešimt plakatų, kiekvienai potemei po penkis. Pasirinktas atskiras tik potemę atitinkantis grafinis... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
The graphic design, development, advertising, visual advertising items and its objects, posters, and social problems are a part of our public events.My disertation and paractical work are linked to the social advertising This is because due to the fact that social problems are increasing, and there is not enough effective educational information to the public. Social advertising is very important in our dayly lives. There is a big necessity of taking into account the current challenges and changes in our society. The thesis of my disertation is based on a graphic design project called „Warning“ in a social advertising . It consists of two sub-themes: "Human Trafficking" and "War on the roads". My choice of creating a graphic design Project called "Warning" was based on up to date of our new society social issues and the given notice of the visual interpretation on the items ,this is because of their unique characteristics. After examining all these problems and their importance I have provided a different context, further explores and the most important, relevant content and exceptional visual design submissions, which came up as result of „Warning“. The project is linked with the social visualization and posters.The different presentation makes us to look at these issues from more important and relevant sides.. The solution of the graphic posters is highlighted in a disclosure.The technical side of my project consits of ten posters which... [to full text]

Social advertising is a widely accepted means evoking the sense of responsibility in people and helping to deal realistically with the problems of social risk groups of people (narcotic and alcohol addiction, violence, etc.). Social advertising not only spotlights these problems and suggests ways of solving them, but also promotes help and tolerance for the members of the above mentioned social risk groups. The object of the social advertising on the preventive subject ‘Mania’ is polygraphic press: posters, booklets, pocket calendars and table calendars. Six urgent social problems are dealt with in this work: indifference, narcotic addiction, tobacco addiction, violence, compulsion and alcohol addiction because people unconsciously reject the denial. The moral should be made indirectly, allowing the consumer himself/herself to comprehend the negativity of the problem. Therefore, I use the associatives in my works allowing individuals to conceive the process of creation as the essential peculiarity of the individual’s life and social environment in respect to idealistic culture and society. Associatives give space for interpretations in connecting one’s knowledge with new information. The main hypotheses in the work are the following ones: preventive advertising is expected to have an effective informative influence using associative symbols in respect to action and place; the outlined stylistics of the prospect makes contrast with a sharp preventive subject. ... [to full text]

This study re-evaluates the Consciousness Scale originally formulated by Pingree et al. in 1976. The element of assumed power was added to the Consciousness Scale, which was then used to evaluate 516 magazine advertisements from 1999 to determine if the Consciousness Scale still accurately evaluates sexism in media. A set of advertisements was culled which had contradictory Consciousness Scale and power ratings. The set was evaluated, revealing common themes, which created difficulty in coding these modern images. The study revealed that while the Consciousness Scale can still provide a valuable tool in evaluating media images, the change in the social dynamic of women as well as minorities and how advertisers portray them must be taken into account. The element of power as well as a more nuanced reading of each level of the Consciousness Scale creates a more modern and complex evaluation of gender images in the media.

Orientador: Claudiney Rodrigues Carrasco
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar o filme O Fabuloso Destino de Amélie Poulain, sua trilha musical e apontar suas referências estéticas em filmes publicitários, a partir de materiais existentes em DVD, Internet, livros, CD das músicas e partituras. A música do filme é analisada por meio da interpretação dos momentos em que está presente na ação dramática. Os filmes publicitários são divididos em dois grupos: os que apresentam alguma referência estética e os que apresentam referência na trilha musical. A pesquisa é qualitativa, por meio da análise e da interpretação das músicas presentes no filme examinado
Abstract: This research aims to analyze the film Amélie, its soundtrack and its references in advertising films, from existing materials on DVD, Internet, books, CD of soundtrack and scores. Music of the film is analyzed by interpreting the moments that was present in the dramatic action. The commercials are divided into two groups: those who have some aesthetic reference and those who have reference in soundtrack. The research is qualitative, through analysis and interpretation of the songs in the film Amelie. It's a descriptive research
Mestrado
Multimeios
Mestra em Multimeios

This study examines the production of masculinity in the advertisements of South Africa’s two most popular men’s lifestyle magazines, FHM and Men’s Health. I specifically focus on advertisements, as I argue that they play a crucial role in the re‐production of prominent discursive formations. Informed by a poststructuralist framework this study adopts Foucault’s notions of discourse, power and the constitution of the subject. Gender is conceived of within power relations, with a hierarchical relationship between masculinities and femininities. The gendered subject is also viewed as being constantly in process and being constructed performatively through material forms of practice. Focusing on group representations to establish gender hierarchies, I argue that these representations of people are performative acts, hailing the subjects who view them and producing reality through discourse. Hegemonic masculinity, which is argued to be prominent in advertising, is located at the highest point in the gender hierarchy. However, there is not one universal hegemonic masculinity, for it can vary across three discrete political contexts: the local, which is constructed in the immediate face‐to‐face interactions of families, organisations and social structures; the regional, which is constructed at the level of culture or the nation state; and the global, which is constructed in supra‐national locations. In the advertisements of FHM and Men’s Health there is interplay between the latter two as global and regional brands both advertise in these magazines. To investigate the portrayal of masculinities in these publications, this study first undertakes a content analysis to survey the “general landscape” of representation in the advertisements and then performs a critical discourse analysis to uncover “thick description” of the production of masculinity. The content analysis, finds that the advertisements in the sample validate both white and heterosexual forms of masculinity. The sample is comprised mostly of white males, white females and black males, generally proposing forms of hegemonic masculinity, emphasised femininity and complicit masculinity respectively. The representation of white males and black males is different both in terms of the frequency of representations and in the types of representations. I argued that a certain tension inhabits the resulting representations, which try to be inclusive of a multi‐racial South Africa, yet do so within a clearly hierarchical structure. An in‐depth analysis of eight texts, informed by Fairclough’s model of critical discourse analysis and Kress & van Leeuwen’s framework for visual analysis, finds similar results to the content analysis while providing insight into how various discourses produced the representations, particularly within non‐narrative advertisements.

The purpose of this study is to examine how Åhléns challenge existing gender norms and stereotypes in their campaign Bryt klädmaktsordningen. The study also wish to highlight the reactions that the campaign has received on Åhléns Facebook-page. The theoretical starting point is based on theories concerning representation and stereotypes and specifically how these theories can be seen in the context of advertising campaigns. The concepts of norms and norms criticism has been established and the concept of sex and gender has been discussed within the theoretical framework. Theories of semiotics has also been presented to provide a basis to the two qualitative methods in the study. First, a semiotic picture analysis is used to analyze the visual elements of the material. Then, a thematic text analysis is used to analyze the textual material consisted of comments from the Facebook-page. The result of the semiotic analysis shows that Åhléns challenge gender norms and stereotypes by presenting women and men in contrary to what is expected of them. A part of the result that was found a bit surprising is that the analysis also shows that the presentation is not entirely equitable between the men and women. The result of the thematic text analysis is first categorised into five different themes: “shouts of encouragement”, “keep politics away!”, “threats of boycott”, “great, but…” and “campaign defender”. The result shows that the reactions largely stands for or against Åhléns, this campaign or norm critical advertising. A surprising result was those who both praised and condemned Åhléns or campaign in the same comment. Based on the result, the conclusion is that Åhléns can participate and highlight social problems through their marketing communication and that they have done so by challenging the previling norms in the camaign. The fact that Åhléns has chosen to take a stand on gender norms through this campaign also shows that a norm critical advertising campaign can lead to a community discussion regarding prevailing gender norms.

This thesis concerns the development of the self-regulation of advertising in Sweden from 1950 until 1971. Self-regulation was initiated in the 1930s due to a business desire to regulate fair competition in marketing, and while it initially was a minor operation, the 1950s and 1960s were characterized by extensive development. When self-regulation was overtaken by state policies in 1971, it included several interlocking systems, of which parts survived the introduction of the state regime. The thesis’ aim has been to analyze how the rapid regime transitions in the self-regulation regime can be understood. The existing literature identifies four major transitions that occurred during the studied time period. To understand them, the thesis has studied the policy processes leading up to these transitions. Focus has been on the business interest organizations that controlled the regime and their regulatory strategies. Theoretically, the analysis has departed from the hypothesis that tensions between these organizations, due to their members’ different market interests and varying levels of exposure to regulation and public badwill, to a significant degree informed their strategic choices as well as policy outcomes. The results show that the policy processes preceding the regime transitions were characterized by internal tensions, whereby organizations representing advertisers, and to a lesser degree media carriers, due to their members’ higher level of exposure to regulation and public badwill, successfully supported stronger market policing, while ad agencies, being less exposed, as well as a peak industry organization for the proliferation of marketing largely opposed such measures, preferring a more lenient regulation. However, due to increased exposure to regulation and bad will, the ad agencies finally abandoned their opposition and took the lead in regulatory innovation through the introduction of an extensive clearance program that survived the launch of the state regime, becoming a key component in the co-regulatory structure that followed.

This thesis and its corresponding art installation, Lessons from Ziggy, attempts to deconstruct the variables prevalent within several complex systems, analyze their transformations, and propose a methodology for reasserting the soap box within the display pedestal. In this text, there are several key and specific examples of the transformation of various signifiers (i.e. media-bred fear’s transformation into a political tactic of surveillance, contemporary freneticism’s transformation into complacency, and community’s transformation into nationalism as a state weapon). In this essay, all of these concepts are contextualized within the exponential growth of new technologies. That is to say, all of these semiotic developments must be framed within the post-Internet sphere.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996.
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Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of the study was to investigate the controlled transfer of meaning that could be facilitated by the application of knowledge of sense-making theory. An object of communication, an advertisement, was consciously constructed on the basis of sense-making principles. An application of knowledge of sense making was then employed to assess the reception of the advertisement by a selected sample of respondents. The decision to select advertising as the choice of medium for the study stemmed from the increasing levels of criticism directed at this form of communication as a result of its frequent failure to deliver intended benefits for its sponsors. The intended benefits relate to the transfer of meaning that would prompt recipients of advertising messages to take an action that would be of value to the advertiser. More specific criticisms have centred on the failure of a growing number of advertising messages to deliver meaningful benefits as a result of their lack of relevance for the intended recipients of these communications. A call for a shift in mind-set away from traditional linear models currently employed to facilitate the design of advertising messages has prompted a growing recognition of the need to employ a more empathetic approach that would facilitate a positive interaction between an advertiser and a target audience. The emergence of what has been termed experiential marketing communications has advocated a view that advertising communications can promote stronger allegiances between organisations and their customers by the inclusion of meaningful sensory associations for recipients. This view, together with the insights revealed by those working in the field of sense making, suggested that the incorporation of sense-making theory could well accommodate the paradigm shift that has been called for in the design of advertising communications. The views and insights outlined above prompted the development of an advertisement that sought to incorporate sense-making theory into its construction. The requirement to allow for the transfer of intended meaning in the advertisement was facilitated by incorporating frames and cues, the design of which sought to assist in the resolution of equivocality and enable respondents to bridge cognitive gaps. The investigation took the form of an exploratory case study. The advertisement, constructed on the basis of sense-making theory, represented the control element of the study. In-depth interviews were conducted amongst grade 12 learners selected on the basis of their matching the target audience for which the advertisement had been designed. The semi-structured nature of the interviews followed a format that allowed for a comparison to be made between the intended input of meaning and the decoding of responses relating to the advertisement. Results indicated that there was a transfer of intended meanings incorporated into the advertisement as indicated in the decoded responses of respondents. These positive findings tend to indicate that a conscious application of sense-making theory to the construction of advertising messages could enhance their effectiveness.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie studie was om die beheerde oordrag van betekenis, gefassiliteer deur die bepassing van kennis van die “sense-making” teorie, te ondersoek. ‘n Voorwerp van kommunikasie, ‘n advertensie, is doelbewus geskep op grond van die beginsels van die “sense-making” teorie. ‘n Toepassing van kennis van dié teorie is aangewend om die impak van die advertensie op ‘n steekproef van reagente te assesseer. Weens die voortdurende mislukking van die advertensie medium om beplande voordele aan die borge te lewer, styg vlakke van kritiek gerig tot hierdie medium. Juis hierdie statistiek het die besluit om die advertensie medium as voorwerp van studie te gebruik, laat ontwikkel. Die beplande voordele vir die borge hou direk verband met die oordrag van die betekenis wat die ontvanger van die advertensie boodskap sal aanpar om op te tree, en sodoende tot voordeel van die adverteerder sal strek. Kritiek is spesifiek gerig op die mislukking van al hoe meer advertensies wat nie betekenisvolle voordele lewer nie as gevolg van die irrelevansie van die vorm van kommunikasie vir die ontvanger. Die herkenning van die groeiende behoefde het ‘n beroep gemaak om ‘n paradigma skuif te maak, weg van die huidige, tradisionele, linêre model wat die ontwerp van advertensie boodskappe fassiliteer. Hierdie behoefte is om ‘n meer empatiese benadering in te stel, wat ‘n positiewe interaksie tussen die adverteerder en teiken gehoor sal fassiliteer. Die ontstaan van die sogenaamde “experietial marketing communications” het voorgestel dat die advertensie medium sterker getrouheid tussen organisasies en hul klante kan adverteer. Hierdie oogpunt, saam met die insig van dié gene wat in die veld van “sense making” werk, stel voor dat die inkorporasie van die “sense-making” teorie, wel die paradigma skuif, beroep op die ontwerp van die advertensie, kan akkommodeer. Dit het die ontwikkeling van ‘n advertensie met die “sense-making” teorie in sy konstruksie geïnkorporeer, aangewaldeer. Die vereiste om die oordrag van die beplande betekenis van ‘n advertensie te bewerkstellig, is gefassiliteer deur sketse en aanwysings te inkorporeer. Hierdie sketse en aanwysings is ontwerp om die voorkoming/oplossing van dubbelsinnigheid te ondersteun en om reagente te help om kognitiewe gapings te oorbrug. Die ondersoek het die vorm van ‘n ontdekkings gevallestudie aangeneem. Die advertensie, gebaseer op die “sense-making” teorie, het die kontrole element van die studie verteenwoordig. Onderhoude is indiepte gevoer met graad 12 leerders wat gekeur is op grond van die feit dat hulle in die teikengroep van die ontwerpte advertensie val. Die semigestruktureerde aard van die onderhoude het toegelaat dat die voorafbeplande blootstelling aan die betekenis vergelyk word met die dekodering van die terugvoering in verband met die advertensie. Resultate het gewys dat daar wel ‘n oordrag van die beplande, geïnkorporeerde betekenis in die advertensie plaas gevind het, wat bewys is in as ‘n dekodeerde reaksie van die reagent. Hierdie positiewe bevindings neig om te bewys dat ‘n bewuste aanwending van die “sensemaking” teorie tot die konstruksie van die advertensie wese die effektiewiteit van boodskappe verbeter.

The early- to mid-twentieth century criticism surrounding E. E. Cummings often dismisses his poetry in Eliotic terms. In analyzing Cummings’s critics’ arguments and methodologies, I attempt to reveal the ways in which Cummings has been unfairly labelled, and also the strains in modernist criticism that have continued up through to today. I compare the modernist approaches to the text to the way recent critics talk about Cummings in order to shed light on our critical inheritance from modernism. Finally, I analyse Cummings’s poetry in terms of one of the more recent discussions of modernist texts, that of relationship between commodity and advertising culture and modernist poetry. My project seeks, by using Cummings as a case study, to articulate not only how certain literary values came to be established, but also how certain methods of persuasion in literary criticism can undermine and even silence certain aspects of a text.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
This study uses a rhetorical visual analysis to investigate supplement advertisements within the top three fitness magazines, according to circulation, to provide a richer understanding of the message construction within the visual images the advertisements contain. The advertisements were selected at random over a time span of a year and a half within each of the magazines, totaling nine separate advertisements for analysis. The purpose of this study is to determine to what extent, if any, the construction of advertisements in men's fitness magazines operates as ideographic images establishing legitimacy as determined through application of Sonja Foss' rhetorical visual analysis methodology. Previous research has identified various analyses of visual images within the fitness culture, however, rhetorical visual analysis of supplement advertisement does not appear to have been investigated prior to this project which is the primary concern for the initiation of the current research. Employing rhetorical analysis in order to understand visual images provides a perspective that is imperative to identification of elements and functions of visual images. The current findings indicate that images in advertisements in men's fitness magazines do not establish rhetorical legitimacy, as understood from a rhetorical perspective. However, when examined through a traditional aesthetic intentionalist perspective, the construction of the advertisements operates as ideographic images, establishing legitimacy through the image. This information provides us with the understanding that advertisements within current muscle magazines are operating under a traditional viewpoint, and as such, produce traditional perspectives. The advertisement industry within this genre is reliant upon the consumer first knowing what the product is and then realizing how the image fits into that function. The limitation within this perspective of the advertisement industry is the consumer's knowledge base concerning the product, the product being explained through text and the time the consumer is willing to spend on correlating the intent or function with the images presented.

This dissertation explores how representations of women in the media function as heterodesignations in response to the current socio-economic cultural complex of globalization. In its merger with reality, the media has become the dominant discourse and the means through which prevailing modes of self-understanding are made available in postmodern society, of which the simulacrum is a key feature. Representations of women in the media in general, and in television advertisements in particular, are not, in any way, subversive of hegemonic discourse and, despite the prevalent ambiguity of these images, construct women in conformity with traditional gender stereotypes. Through practices of deconstruction, such as feminist counter-cinema, of which the film Female Perversions is an example, feminism has an important role to play in liberating women from the oppressive effects of these representations, even if these efforts are not, in themselves, free from ambiguity.
English Studies
M.A. (English)

Homes proclaim our social standing and reflect the trend of the times. This project seeks to explore and redefine the relationship between modern homes and modern women who strive for mobile life styles. Modernism and globalization have brought us a new way of living that could have never been imagined before— our workspace and homes are no longer limited to a specific unit but have extended to the entire globe. The physical changes compelled by modernity have also complemented the changing role of women. Since the beginning of the 20th century, modern women have expanded their lives outside of their homes and are playing a much more active role in society. This project is designed for the modern feminist nomads—young women with international background living away from their home country—who are passionate about what they do professionally and proud of the women they are. The project will allow these women to determine what home means to them, and also allow their artifacts and concept of home to travel with them and, through the process, shape who they are. This project is a series of 5 different scales of designs: the Z-Cases, the Z-Cubes, the Z-Units, the Z-Communities, and the Z-Global Business Model. This series of designs is developed to better aid the life on the move for the feminist nomads, by making traveling , moving, and adjusting to a new community a much easier process.

The diploma thesis is focused on the area of Internet media, namely the monetization of advertising, which Internet provides through the programmatic purchase of an internet advertisements that are focused on Real Time Bidding (RTB). The theoretical part deals with a brief analysis of the US media landscape, especially the phenomenon of the programmatic way of buying online advertisements in connection with technological development and optimization strategies in the Internet environment. It represents the emergence of the programmatic purchase, deals with the various forms of online advertising and its development. There is an introduction to two different online media strategies of banking institutions, which are further explored within the exploratory comparative technique - experiment in the practical part. This section focuses on changing technical settings, along with changing ad buying when changing key settings as a part of the ad serving campaign. The aim of the diploma thesis is to introduce the possibilities offered by programmatic advertising within online media in the Czech Republic. It summarizes knowledge in the context of the development of electronic advertising in the application of the two online media strategies of the banking institution.