In response to conditions of reflexive accumulation, advertising research has turned from positivist approaches dominant from the 1960s to the 1980s towards the use of qualitative method-ologies such as focus groups and ethnography. This includes an emphasis on place rather than space and signals a new mode of subjectification.
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