{"id":30984,"date":"2012-10-05T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=30984"},"modified":"2017-09-17T15:45:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T20:45:29","slug":"north-korea-an-ad-free-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/10\/05\/north-korea-an-ad-free-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea: An Ad-Free Utopia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skipping through a set of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2012\/09\/revealing_more_of_north_korea.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">images of North Korea<\/a>\u00a0by photographers\u00a0David Guttenfelder and Vincent Yu, and another set from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.com\/image\/first\/in-gallery\/53201\/in-carousel\/15221#index\/18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2010 <em>LIFE<\/em> slide show<\/a>, I was reminded that the city is almost entirely devoid of advertising. \u00a0There is political propaganda everywhere, of course, but there is an overwhelming absence of the marketing for products characteristic of capitalist societies. \u00a0All of the print and electronic media is under state control, and the state administers and controls the economy as well. \u00a0Accordingly&#8230; there is almost no advertising. \u00a0The images in the slide show give us a peak into this world without ads.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skipping through a set of\u00a0images of North Korea\u00a0by photographers\u00a0David Guttenfelder and Vincent Yu, and another set from a 2010 LIFE slide show, I was reminded that the city is almost entirely devoid of advertising. \u00a0There is political propaganda everywhere, of course, but there is an overwhelming absence of the marketing for products characteristic of capitalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,98,2126,23703,4381],"class_list":["post-30984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-capitalism","tag-communismsocialism","tag-marketing","tag-nation-north-korea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30984"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71585,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30984\/revisions\/71585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}