Abstract

In the last two centuries, human society went through radical changes in the way they communicates. Consequence of constantly technology innovation, adverstising became into a main character inside this invigorated context, where all the audiovisual narratives forms evolve to create messages that reach the target attention. But more than commercial objectives, the social message has been developed in order to change attitudes in the entire population on the ad campaigns. These social messages produce some positive thoughts around important issues in society such us health, ecology, education, human rights, etc. and also generated several communicational strategies that leads to their own way for creating, producing or printing/posting/airing advertising which are important and reknown because of its common interests and strategies for narrative construction.

Abstract

At the beginning of the re-examination of the typology of traditional marketing advertising based on classic authors of advertising communication, the two structuring types linked to the new “modi operandi” of the counter-hegemonic advertising practices that figure in social advertising, including community advertising, will be discussed. The idea is to contribute with the enrichment of the scientific discussion on communication in advertising and propaganda articulated to the recent consumption practices and made viable by mobile technologies.

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The construction, visualization, and stabilization of public problems require the mobilization of civil society groups concerned about these issues to actively engage in the demand for actions and policies. This paper explores the institutional campaigns against human trafficking and sexual exploitation in Spain between 2008 and 2017 and their role in helping to shape this issue as a matter of public concern. Our aim is to identify the ideological basis of these campaigns through their representations of predominant actors, which have been systematized to identify possible mistakes and to help determine more effective actions with a greater capacity for mobilization. We applied a mixed content analysis combined with a semiotic model to evaluate the presence or absence of the different actors and their relevance in each case. Several lines of discourse have been reiterated across the 50 campaigns analysed: Curbing the demand for prostitution as a priority objective; the centrality of victims in the representations; the role of the consumer of paid sex as an accomplice to the crime; and the correlation between prostitution and human trafficking. We will also examine how these issues relate to the broader dispute on the status of prostitution in Spain. This will require a conceptual shift away from educational and social-oriented communication towards the structural causes, collective responsibility and transformative justice frameworks.