Impact of colourism in social media advertisements on university students' attitude and purchasing behaviour

With the rapid rise of social media, social media advertising has become a crucial role in the online marketing environment, especially among university students, with the help of Internet connection, they prefer to buy products in online stores rather than traditional stores. However, social media...

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Main Author: Toh, Yan Tong
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2024
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description With the rapid rise of social media, social media advertising has become a crucial role in the online marketing environment, especially among university students, with the help of Internet connection, they prefer to buy products in online stores rather than traditional stores. However, social media advertising tends to convey the message that fair skin is the ideal standard for beauty. The dark skin is portrayed in a negative light, ugly and considered unattractive in appearance. It has opened the eyes of many people, especially university students see the issue such as colourism. This study focuses on the impact of colourism in social media advertisements on university students’ attitude and purchasing behaviour. This study used online survey questionnaire method to gather information through Google Forms. Keywords: advertising, colourism, university students’ attitude, university students’ purchasing behaviour, social media advertising HF5801-6182 Advertising
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spelling utar-70542025-01-14T03:11:39Z Impact of colourism in social media advertisements on university students' attitude and purchasing behaviour Toh, Yan Tong H Social Sciences (General) QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science With the rapid rise of social media, social media advertising has become a crucial role in the online marketing environment, especially among university students, with the help of Internet connection, they prefer to buy products in online stores rather than traditional stores. However, social media advertising tends to convey the message that fair skin is the ideal standard for beauty. The dark skin is portrayed in a negative light, ugly and considered unattractive in appearance. It has opened the eyes of many people, especially university students see the issue such as colourism. This study focuses on the impact of colourism in social media advertisements on university students’ attitude and purchasing behaviour. This study used online survey questionnaire method to gather information through Google Forms. Keywords: advertising, colourism, university students’ attitude, university students’ purchasing behaviour, social media advertising HF5801-6182 Advertising 2024 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/7054/1/2005727_Toh_Yan_Thong.pdf Toh, Yan Tong (2024) Impact of colourism in social media advertisements on university students' attitude and purchasing behaviour. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/7054/
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Toh, Yan Tong
Impact of colourism in social media advertisements on university students' attitude and purchasing behaviour
title Impact of colourism in social media advertisements on university students' attitude and purchasing behaviour
title_full Impact of colourism in social media advertisements on university students' attitude and purchasing behaviour
title_fullStr Impact of colourism in social media advertisements on university students' attitude and purchasing behaviour
title_full_unstemmed Impact of colourism in social media advertisements on university students' attitude and purchasing behaviour
title_short Impact of colourism in social media advertisements on university students' attitude and purchasing behaviour
title_sort impact of colourism in social media advertisements on university students' attitude and purchasing behaviour
topic H Social Sciences (General)
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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