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

In The Case for Make Believe, Harvard child psychologist Susan Linn tells the alarming story of childhood under siege in a commercialized and technology-saturat

In Kids Rule! Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the cable network Nickelodeon in order to rethink the relationship between children, media, citizenship, and consumeri

A critique of marketing to children

"This is an academic look at the contribution of popular culture to the loss if innocence in today's children."--Publisher.