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The Responsive Chord: The Responsive Chord: How media manipulate you: what you buy. who you vote for. and how you think.
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ISBN-13: | 9781633536050 |
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Publisher: | TURNER PUB CO |
Publication date: | 01/10/2017 |
Pages: | 196 |
Sales rank: | 729,600 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Schwartz began recording sounds of New York City - street sounds, musicians and conversations - releasing over a dozen albums on Folkways Records and Columbia Records. One of his albums, New York Taxi Driver, was among the first 100 recordings inducted into the U.S. National Recording Registry. From 1945 to 1976, Schwartz produced and hosted "Around New York" on WNYC.
He transitioned into advertising work in 1958 when approached by Johnson and Johnson about creating ads for their baby powder, because of his reputation for recording children. His resulting work is often credited as the first use of children's real voices in radio commercials (previously children had been portrayed by specially trained adults).
Briefly specializing in advertising using children, he soon broadened into general advertising, creating ads for such clients as Coca Cola, American Airlines, Chrysler, American Cancer Society, and Kodak.
Schwartz subsequently shifted his advertising work toward political campaigns. While continuing to create product ads, he created thousands of political ads for such candidates as Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
In a final transition in his career, he turned his energies toward public interest advertising for social causes. Early in his career he had created the first anti-smoking commercials for television and radio. In the 1980s he resumed these efforts, creating many anti-smoking commercials, as well as media work for such causes as fire prevention, AIDS awareness, educational funding and nuclear disarmament.
In 2007, Schwartz's entire body of work, including field recordings and commercials, was acquired by the Library of Congress.
John Carey is Professor of Communications and Media Management at Fordham University. John Carey brings 25 years of experience in media-industry research and product development to his teaching at the Gabelli School of Business. His clients have included Google, American Express, AT&T, NBC Universal, The New York Times, Primedia, A&E Television Networks, Digitas, The Online Publishers Association, PBS, Cablevision, Rainbow Media, Scholastic and XM Satellite Radio, among others.
Professor Carey has served on the advisory boards of the Adult Literacy Media Alliance, the Annenberg School For Communications and Fordham's Donald McGannon Communication Research Center. He was a commissioner on the Annenberg Commission on the Press and Democracy, has been an invited lecturer in more than a dozen countries and has presented his research to the boards of major media companies in the United States. Before coming to Fordham, he taught at Columbia Business School and at New York University. He resides in New York City.
Table of Contents
Additional Online Materials vii
Foreword to the Second Edition ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction xix
The Resonance Principle in Communication 1
How to Strike a Responsive Chord 25
The New Communications Environment 39
Hard Sell, Soft Sell, Deep Sell 53
The Inside of the Outside 77
Education in the Global Village 104
Sounds in the City 132
Some Applications 143
Postscript 156
References 157
Index 159
About the Author 170
Interviews
Here's the still-true story about how a media environment can shape our thoughts, our purchases and, yes, our votes. It's not just the content that influences us; if only it were that simple. No, it's the media themselves, the political economy driving them, and the atomizing impact of their targeted messaging. Maybe reading this book about the way media was instrumentalized in the 1970s will prepare us to think more critically about the way social media is used on, and against us today. Douglas Rushkoff, author, Program or Be Programmed, Present Shock, and Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus.