Research Paper on:
Private and Public Space Commercialization

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permeating every aspect of our lives. Our public spaces, both physical and tangential, are increasingly subjected to commercial messages which are designed to change our perceptions and ultimately to  render economic benefit on the commercial entity responsible for the commercial messages. Commercial broadcasts shape the publics taste for fashions, foods, entertainment, and many other aspects of our lives  which directly relate to business. Many times the messages the public receives from the media are in the form of actual advertisements, many times they are more subtly wrapped  in our movies and other mass media presentations. Seldom, however, do these messages have any socially redeeming characteristics. One of the more  unfortunate aspects of the commercial infiltration of our public and private space is the nature of the messages which we are receiving. In many ways these messages fill the  cultural void which has grown increasingly wider over the past several decades. They fill it, however, with material which is degrading in nature. The media is, in fact,  one of the largest factors shaping our popular culture today. It is though advertisements, movies, radio broadcasts, even bill boards that we have filled the cultural void of  popular culture. The effect of media on popular culture is world wide. Often times this effect is an aggressive inoculation of Western ideas, particularly U.S. ideas, on the  worlds cultures. The extent of the commercial privatization of our space is indeed tremendous. With globalization, our fashions, our foods, our entertainment, our religions, our politics are all  being force fed to the worlds population (Chua, 1997). The privatization of public spaces through commercial broadcasts has undoubtedly increased in