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Nike Culture

The Sign of the Swoosh

 

Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson

1999

 

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Keywords

Advertising

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An extensive semiotic analysis of the cultural and sociological implications of Nike’s most famous advertising campaign. The book situates the swoosh within current cultural discourses. Goldman and Papson write that “Nike Advertising does more than simply sell shoes as commodities, it gives voice to important cultural contradictions that define our era” (3).