Introduction -- Historical perspectives -- Origins of modern consumption : advertising, new goods, and a new generation, 1890-1930 / Gary Cross -- "Sentimental 'greenbacks" of civilization" : cartes de visite and the pre-history of self-branding / Alison Hearn -- The fight against critics and the discovery of "spin" : American advertising in the 1930s and 40s / Inger L. Stole -- Cultivating the romance of place : marketing as popular geography / Richard K. Popp -- Political economy -- Regulating integrated advertising / Christina Spurgeon -- Cross-media promotion and media synergy : practices, problems and policy responses / Jonathan Hardy -- Media buying : the new power of advertising / Joseph Turow -- Globalization -- The advertising industry in Latin America : a regional portrait / John Sinclair -- Globalization, penetration, and transformation : a critical analysis of transnational advertising agencies in Asia / Kwangmi Ko Kim and Hong Cheng -- The ties that bind : US Hispanic advertising and the tension between global and local forces / Christopher A. Chávez -- The transnational promotional class and the circulation of value(s) / Melissa Aronczyk -- Audiences as labor, consumers, interpreters, fans -- Commodifying free labor online: social media, audiences, and advertising / Nicole S. Cohen -- The impact of social media on imaginary social relationships with media figures/celebrities who appear in advertising / Neil M. Alperstein -- Health literacy in DTCA 2.0 : digital and social media frontiers / Ashli Quesinberry Stokes -- Identities -- The new "real women" of advertising : subjects, experts, and producers in the interactive era / Brooke Erin Duffy -- "Brut slaps" and twins : hypercommercialized sports media and the intensification of gender ideology / Matthew P. McAllister and Chenjerai Kumanyika -- The ghosts of mad men : race and gender inequality inside American advertising agencies / Christopher Boulton -- Governing taste : packaged foods, inscription devices, nutrition, and the child / Charlene Elliott -- Social institutions -- The new refeudalization of the public sphere / Jamie Warner -- Rate your knowledge: the branded university / Sarah Banet-Weiser -- Now hear this : the state of promotion and popular music / Devon Powers -- Property porn : an analysis of online real estate advertising / Jacqueline Botterill -- Everyday life -- "Brand you!" : the business of personal branding and community in anxious times / Christine Harold -- Back to the future : gifts, friendship, and the re-figuration of advertising space / Iain MacRury -- Cause marketing and the rise of values-based brands : exploiting compassion in pursuit of profits / Mara Einstein -- From advergames to branded worlds : the commercialization of digital gaming / Sara M. Grimes -- The environment -- The "crying Indian", corporations, and environmentalism : a half-century of struggle over environmental messaging / Robin Andersen -- Behind the green curtain : constructing the green consumer with contemporary environmental advertising / Colleen Connolly-Ahern and Lee Ahern -- The paradox of materiality : fashion, marketing, and the planetary ecology / Juliet B. Schor.