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Gender, Advertising and Ethics: Marketing Cuba

Nigel Morgan Orcid Logo, Annette Pritchard

Tourism Planning & Development, Pages: 1 - 18

Swansea University Author: Nigel Morgan Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/21568316.2017.1403372

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Online advertisements are representations of ethnographic knowledge and sites of cultural production, social interaction and individual experience. Based on a critical discourse analysis of an online Iberia Airlines advertisement and a series of blogs, this paper reveals how the myths and fantasies...

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Published in: Tourism Planning & Development
ISBN: ISSN: 2156-8324
ISSN: 2156-8316 2156-8324
Published: 2017
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