Consuming kids : the hostile takeover of childhood / Susan Linn.

Publisher's description: With the intensity of the California gold rush, corporations are racing to stake their claim on the consumer group formerly known as children. What was once the purview of a handful of companies has escalated into a gargantuan enterprise estimated at over $15 billion an...

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Main Author: Linn, Susan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press ; Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-273) and index. 
505 0 |a The marketing Maelstrom -- 1. Notes from the underground: thirty-six hours at a marketing conference -- 2. A consumer in the family: the nag factor and other nightmares -- 3. Branded babies: from cradle to consumer -- 4. Endangered species: play and creativity -- 5. Students for sale: who profits from marketing in schools? -- 6. Through thick and thin: the weighty problem of food marketing -- 7. Peace-keeping battle stations and smackdown!: selling kids on violence -- 8. From Barbie and Ken to Britney, the Bratz, and beyond: sex as commodity -- 9. Marketing, media, and the First Amendment: what's best for children? -- 10. Joe Camel is dead, but whassup with those Budweiser frogs?: hooking kids on alcohol and tobacco -- 11. If values are right, what's left: life lessons from marketing -- 12. Ending the marketing Maelstrom: you're not alone. 
520 |a Publisher's description: With the intensity of the California gold rush, corporations are racing to stake their claim on the consumer group formerly known as children. What was once the purview of a handful of companies has escalated into a gargantuan enterprise estimated at over $15 billion annually. While parents busily try to set limits at home, marketing executives work day and night to undermine their efforts with irresistible messages. In Consuming Kids, psychologist Susan Linn takes a comprehensive and unsparing look at the demographic advertisers call 'the kid market,' taking readers on a compelling and disconcerting journey through modern childhood as envisioned by commercial interests. Children are now the focus of a marketing maelstrom, targets for everything from minivans to M&M counting books. All aspects of children's lives-their health, education, creativity, and values-are at risk of being compromised by their status in the marketplace. Interweaving real-life stories of marketing to children, child development theory, the latest research, and what marketing experts themselves say about their work, Consuming Kids reveals the magnitude of this problem and shows what can be done about it. 
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