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Consumption, Marketing and Culture

This course is part of Business and Marketing Strategies Specialization

Instructor: Alan Bradshaw

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2 weeks at 10 hours a week

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3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

79 reviews

Beginner level

Recommended experience

Flexible schedule

2 weeks at 10 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

Prepare for a degree

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Assessments

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Taught in English

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There are 3 modules in this course

What does it mean to be a consumer in a consumer society? In this MOOC we think about marketing in terms of what marketing does rather than how we do it. It's not just a case of how we buy the products that are sold to us, but how we are affected by those products and the services that we encounter.

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This week includes: gender, ideology, and governmentality.

What's included

3 videos8 readings1 assignment3 discussion prompts

3 videosTotal 24 minutes

Introduction to Consumption, Marketing and Culture1 minute
Audio - Marketing and ideology11 minutes
Audio – Marketing and heteronormativity12 minutes

8 readingsTotal 185 minutes

Course structure and navigation5 minutes
Learn effectively this course5 minutes
Start a study journal10 minutes
Investigating ideology and governmentality30 minutes
Marketing ideology and mass media 60 minutes
Keeping mum in the kitchen40 minutes
Activity – Reflecting on structural sexism30 minutes
Week 1 summary5 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 10 minutes

Markets, ideology and gender10 minutes

3 discussion promptsTotal 60 minutes

Say hello to your classmates20 minutes
How marketing governs us - exploring ideology and governmentality10 minutes
Do Dove’s campaigns genuinely empower ‘real beauty’?30 minutes

This week includes: algorithmic culture, surveillance capitalism, and communicative capitalism.

What's included

2 videos3 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

2 videosTotal 54 minutes

Audio interview – Digital culture27 minutes
Audio interview - Surveillance capitalism and communicative capitalism27 minutes

3 readingsTotal 185 minutes

Surveillance capitalism is an assault on human autonomy120 minutes
Activity – Reflecting on your own data footprint60 minutes
Week 2 summary5 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 10 minutes

Digital consumer culture 10 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 90 minutes

Investigating marketing ideology and mass media 90 minutes

This week includes: sustainability, green consumerism, and degrowth.

What's included

2 videos4 readings1 assignment

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