About this title: Ads targeted at kids are virtually everywhere - in classrooms and textbooks, on the Internet, even at Girl Scout meetings, slumber parties, and the playground. Product placement and other innovations have introduced more subtle advertising to movies and television. Drawing on her own survey research and unprecedented access to the advertising industry, author Juliet Schor examines how marketing efforts of vast size, scope and effectiveness have created 'commercialized children'. Ads and their messages about sex, drugs and food affect not just what children want to buy, but who they think they ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2005-10-04
ISBN-13:9780684870564ISBN:0684870568
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2005-10-04
ISBN-13:9780684870564ISBN:0684870568
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780684870564ISBN:0684870568
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2005-10-04
ISBN-13:9780684870564ISBN:0684870568
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Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780684870564ISBN:0684870568
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2005-10-04
ISBN-13:9780684870564ISBN:0684870568
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"a great nonfic if you are interested in socially, marketing and/or child development. based on very specific marketing and advertising examples, to prove general points about the topics, and in some cases i didn't really get the connection. however, pretty solid overall and equally as frightening as the cover picture."
"read this! concrete reasoning to scale back your consumption...we all just have too much and she lays out the consequences to our obsession with accruing. do it for the children..."
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