Childhood under siege : how big business targets children /
By: Bakan, Joel
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BookPublisher: New York : Free Press, 2011.Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover ed.Description: x, 277 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781439121207 (trade); 1439121206Subject(s): Corporations -- Moral and ethical aspects | Child consumers | Target marketing | Child welfare | Corporations -- Ethical aspects | Consumers | Marketing | Children -- MarketingDDC classification: 339.4/7/083 Online resources: Location Map
Summary:
Explains the author's belief that large companies are becoming more influential in the lives of children, discussing the ways in which pharmaceutical companies get more young people using their medications, elements of sex and violence that are placed in computer games, the effects of social media, the rise in industrial chemicals in the environment, and other related topics.
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 339.47083 BA CH (Browse shelf) | Available | T0043788 |
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| 339.47 CO NS Consumer culture theory | 339.47 SC AU Austerity : | 339.47 ST BU The business of sharing : | 339.47083 BA CH Childhood under siege : | 339.4709 TR EM Empire of things : | 339.470973 BE CO Consumed : | 339.5 AU ST Australian macroeconomics / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-260) and index.
Explains the author's belief that large companies are becoming more influential in the lives of children, discussing the ways in which pharmaceutical companies get more young people using their medications, elements of sex and violence that are placed in computer games, the effects of social media, the rise in industrial chemicals in the environment, and other related topics.
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