“…Contextualising dLife in the changing media landscape dLife's business model places the company within the ongoing debate about the future, practicality, and applicability of IMC. As consumers shift away from mass media, fragment into highly specialized groups, and information technology advances, IMC has emerged as one of the most debated and controversial topics in the field of mass communication (Harris, 1993;Griffin and Pasadeos, 1998;Rose and Miller, 1993;Schultz and Kitchen, 2000). Generally, IMC involves merging communication functions like public relations, advertising, and marketing under a single organizational unit to bring synergy to the marketing effort, a format dLife embraces (Moriarty, 1994).…”