StayFreeMagazine.org – Mass Media and America

StayFreeMagazine.orgStay Free! is a Brooklyn-based magazine which carefully dissects the politics of mass media, and more recently has focused on online advertising and viral marketing. They issue generally one or two themed issues a year, and most of the content from each magazine is available online.

The original pieces published by the magazine include comment and interviews, and occasionally pictures and photos to illustrate the points. Since an important shift in advertising and mass media has taken place in the last years thanks to the internet, the attention in the most recent issues goes to internet campaigns: both corporate and official tactics, and also subversive and independent counterattacks, and the magazine tends to focus on the last, generating some interesting pieces which anyone who has an active life in the internet should read. Visitors of the site can explore the present and past editions of the magazine, and purchase their copies online. Since the magazine comes out at such long intervals, a good way to keep updated on criticism of mass media and (bad) advertising ethics is to take a look at the magazine’s blog, which updates quite more often. The site is very nicely designed, and is thankfully decluttered, so just for the sake of ad-less space, Stay Free! is a good place to be. StayFreeMagazine.org

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