APPLE’S CONSTRUCTION OF ITS BRAND AS CULTURAL CAPITAL IN APPS WE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT COMMERCIAL
| Main Authors: | Sangari, Clifford L.D.; English Department, Faculty of Letters, Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia, Handojo, Priska Febrinia; English Department, Faculty of Letters, Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia |
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| Format: | Article info application/pdf eJournal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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K@ta Kita
, 2016
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http://studentjournal.petra.ac.id/index.php/sastra-inggris/article/view/3975 http://studentjournal.petra.ac.id/index.php/sastra-inggris/article/view/3975/3634 |
Daftar Isi:
- Commercial is an advertising strategy to promote a product or service effectively through mass media. It is also attractive because it touches the audience’s emotion through its music, cinematography, and storytelling. However, commercial has hidden meaning and this meaning represents the brand as symbols which distinct itself and its users to other brands’. I analyze Apps We Can’t Live Without (2014) commercial as the text to show Apple encodes meaning and transmit it to the society. Using film language and Bourdieu’s cultural capital theory, the findings show that the symbols from the commercial bring into a conclusion that Apple as a brand is a symbolic capital, specifically cultural capital. The people who has the brand is considered to have higher position in its fields which are Apple and gadget communities.