title: "Drinking won't get you thinking": a content analysis of adolescent-created print alcohol counter-advertisements.
abstract: Involvement in creating antialcohol advertisements generates enthusiasm among adolescents; however, little is known about the messages adolescents develop for these activities. In this article, we present a content analysis of 72 print alcohol counteradvertisements created by high school (age 14-17 years old) and college (18-25 years old) students. The posters were content analyzed for poster message content, persuasion strategies, and production components, and we compared high school and college student posters. All of the posters used a slogan to highlight the main point/message of the ad and counterarguments/consequences to support the slogans. The most frequently depicted consequences were negative consequences of alcohol use, followed by negative-positive consequence comparison. Persuasion strategies were sparingly used in advertisements and included having fun/one of the gang, humor/unexpected, glamour/sex appeal, and endorsement. Finally, posters displayed a number of production techniques including depicting people, clear setting, multiple colors, different font sizes, and object placement. College and high school student-constructed posters were similar on many features (e.g., posters displayed similar frequency of utilization of slogans, negative consequences, and positive-negative consequence comparisons), but were different on the use of positive consequences of not using alcohol and before-after comparisons. Implications for teaching media literacy and involving adolescents and youth in developing alcohol prevention messages are discussed.
authors: a Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences , Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
authors: Smita C
authors: SC
authors: Banerjee
authors: Kathryn
authors: K
authors: Greene
authors: Michael L
authors: ML
authors: Hecht
authors: Kate
authors: K
authors: Magsamen-Conrad
authors: Elvira
authors: E
authors: Elek
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000329:Advertising / Q000379:methods*; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009515:New Jersey; D010414:Pennsylvania; D010565:Persuasive Communication; D013850:Thinking / Q000187:drug effects*; D055815:Young Adult
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