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Childhood under siege : how big business targets children / Joel Bakan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Free Press, 2011.Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover edDescription: x, 277 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781439121207 (trade)
  • 1439121206
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.4/7/083
Online resources: 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(Opens below)) Available T0043788

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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