How the market, media and message changes affect to advertising? Most of the marketing and communication theories supporting the contemporary advertising concept were developed over a half century ago. Just after the Second World War, the market was full of demand, that is, seller's market. There was no Internet not yet even TV's.
Now the world has been changed totally. Full of supply, in other words, buyer's market and lots of media convergence and divergence.
Re-conceptualizing and shaping the defination of advertising becomes unavoidable.
This article argues that Complexity might be the alternative to discuss the new concept of advertising. Different from the Simplicity of which based on the reductionism, Complexity implies those new ideas such as unequilibrium, non-linear, self organizing, etc. that enable to explain the majority of SNS phenomena happening today.
We're awaiting the new paradigm to fully explain the current marketing communication aspect.
Though not confirmed yet, this might be a clue to draw active discussion about the new concept and definition of advertising.