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Borgerson, J.L., Schroeder, J.E. (2008). Building an Ethics of Visual Representation: Contesting Epistemic Closure in Marketing Communication. In: Cutting-edge issues in Business Ethics. Issues in Business Ethics, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8401-0_8

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