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Robert Pennington, PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991) Professor Emeritus at Fo Guang University, Taiwan, has held faculty positions at several universities in the USA and Taiwan in departments of communication, management, foreign languages and cultures, and in graduate institutes of international communication studies, technology and innovation management, and e-commerce. He has also lectured at universities in South Korea. The primary focus of his research is mass media as an expression of cultural theory. His writing has appeared in publications with a global readership, and has covered topics such as cultural development implications of communication technology, and consumption and marketing communication as cultural processes for satisfying basic human needs. He also has written about marketing communication development, advertising and brands within consumer culture, the meanings of consumer brands and psycho-linguistic methodology. His research extensively develops a theory of culture as a system of symbolic forms, utilizing methodology that selects influential literature from a range of disciplines to form a synthesis of seemingly diverse perspectives.

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