Consuming Kids - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consuming Kids write by Susan Linn. This book was released on 2005. Consuming Kids available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looks at the way corporations and advertisers target children as a profitable demographic, as well as their methods for getting past parental safeguards to make products of all kinds appeal directly to even the youngest children.
The Case For Make Believe
The Case For Make Believe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Case For Make Believe write by Susan Linn. This book was released on 2009-07-01. The Case For Make Believe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Case for Make Believe, Harvard child psychologist Susan Linn tells the alarming story of childhood under siege in a commercialized and technology-saturated world. Although play is essential to human development and children are born with an innate capacity for make believe, Linn argues that, in modern-day America, nurturing creative play is not only countercultural—it threatens corporate profits. A book with immediate relevance for parents and educators alike, The Case for Make Believe helps readers understand how crucial child's play is—and what parents and educators can do to protect it. At the heart of the book are stories of children at home, in school, and at a therapist's office playing about real-life issues from entering kindergarten to a sibling's death, expressing feelings they can't express directly, and making meaning of an often confusing world. In an era when toys come from television and media companies sell videos as brain-builders for babies, Linn lays out the inextricable links between play, creativity, and health, showing us how and why to preserve the space for make believe that children need to lead fulfilling and meaningful lives.
Consuming Innocence
Consuming Innocence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consuming Innocence write by Karen Brooks. This book was released on 2008. Consuming Innocence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is an academic look at the contribution of popular culture to the loss if innocence in today's children."--Publisher.
Kids Rule!
Kids Rule! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kids Rule! write by Sarah Banet-Weiser. This book was released on 2007-09-03. Kids Rule! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Kids Rule! Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the cable network Nickelodeon in order to rethink the relationship between children, media, citizenship, and consumerism. Nickelodeon is arguably the most commercially successful cable network ever. Broadcasting original programs such as Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Rugrats (and producing related movies, Web sites, and merchandise), Nickelodeon has worked aggressively to claim and maintain its position as the preeminent creator and distributor of television programs for America’s young children, tweens, and teens. Banet-Weiser argues that a key to its success is its construction of children as citizens within a commercial context. The network’s self-conscious engagement with kids—its creation of a “Nickelodeon Nation” offering choices and empowerment within a world structured by rigid adult rules—combines an appeal to kids’ formidable purchasing power with assertions of their political and cultural power. Banet-Weiser draws on interviews with nearly fifty children as well as with network professionals; coverage of Nickelodeon in both trade and mass media publications; and analysis of the network’s programs. She provides an overview of the media industry within which Nickelodeon emerged in the early 1980s as well as a detailed investigation of its brand-development strategies. She also explores Nickelodeon’s commitment to “girl power,” its ambivalent stance on multiculturalism and diversity, and its oft-remarked appeal to adult viewers. Banet-Weiser does not condemn commercial culture nor dismiss the opportunities for community and belonging it can facilitate. Rather she contends that in the contemporary media environment, the discourses of political citizenship and commercial citizenship so thoroughly inform one another that they must be analyzed in tandem. Together they play a fundamental role in structuring children’s interactions with television.
Con$umed
Con$umed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Con$umed write by Benjamin R. Barber. This book was released on 2007. Con$umed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Offers a vivid portrait of a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers ... where the primary goal is no longer to manufacture goods but needs." - cover.
